it might just me but i am very dissapointed this game. the gameplay "improvments" are rubbish. players stumble way too much especially when you have possession and the opposition defender touches you. this tends to happen when you are thriugh on goal. players don't shield the ball as effectively as i would like. the shooting is awful and underpowered. i would understand it if they mishit once in a while but not all the time. players also tend to shoot straight at the keeper even when you are pressing directional buttons. the keepers are very incosistent. they will dive to fingertip a point blank header round the post but stay rooted to the spot when a apeculative shot is hit from 25 yards which just rolls in. thierry henry is faster than fernando hierro in real life but he managed to catch him and disposess him. in real world football, players like henry use their pace to get round defenders but in this they have decided to make the non ball carriers quicker which is very puzzling even when you knock the ball 15 yards and run. they are too many fouls, too many offsides and the players should try and make cleverer runs. the computer also tends to select the wrong players when defending meaning unselected players make no effort to get the ball. you can't gangtackle a player like the computer can do to you. if a player isn't selected he will make no effort to get the ball even though he is closer than his teammate who is selected. we also need more stadiums i do not like the direction this series is taking so it's back to pes3 for men. i might even give fifa 2005 a try. cheers