ok guys, I guess we should discuss these things in here and not in the WE7:I impressions thread, ok ?
I completely agree with W11´s last paragraph, that´s actually the same I wanted to write before I saw he mentioned that already
Edmundo, that what you describe as "Korean futbol" is nothing else than "European football", have you ever seen a Premier League game, or Champions League, or the European top nationals ?
It´s all about fast passing, counter attack football, hard crosses and headers. Ever seen Arsenal, Real Madrid, Milan or Roma playing ? Or Holland, France or the Czech Rep. ? You´re scoring an own goal on your argumentation there. This European style of footie is offered by the Japanese version, while it´s simplier to do individual actions on the US version. It´s more an South American style of football, which I, to be honest, hate. It´s nothing personal btw, I don´t know from which country you are and I won´t conclude to your nationality from your name
I´ve tested the US version for a weekend intensively, and I must say, although there are clear improvements, it all reminds me of PES3, it has still crappy refs which give fouls or even yellow cards if you play the ball clearly, it is faster than the Japanese version, which I don´t like and it makes the game unrealistic for me, the crosses still are to soft, and there is this "centre-striker on the wings" bug, which already pissed me off in PES3/WE7, it´s not a problem if you play with a team like Arsenal, where the center striker (Henry) often plays on the wing, but if you play eg with ManU or Inter you have those big guys like RVN or Vieri not in the middle most of the time
You can defend corners and crosses way better in both, WE7:I Jap and US than in PES3, because defensive headers are improved.
About your question, I hope I´m answering the right ones
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It was the review of the official English PS2 mag, that´s why I said it´s an official review, you say it´s only another subjective opinion, well I say it´s your turn to bring on a big gamesmag which says that the Jap version is full of bugs and the US version is better. btw to be honest there are 2 bugs in the Japanese version, one is the number bug which was already mentioned and another one is this free kick bug, that the animation of the free kick is screwed up, it never happened to me in 2 months of playing it, but I´ve heard that from different people and saw an little movie with that bug so I assume it´s real.
To reply the other question, well, it´s quite simple, the US version always was a port of PES and that´s a well known fact, like this review told you, I´m surprised you don´t know it, you will find this info in every game shop I guess, I haven´t searched for that, while the Japanese version of WE7:I is this years Final Evolution, just under another name, for the first time the Jap release is multi-lingual that´s why they decided to call it International and not Final Evolution. We had an interview with the producer Seabass here where he said that, if you do a little search you should find it, it was also posted on evo-web.
