I will explain again what is wrong with PES and why I find it to be crap AGAIN for the people who did not read my earlier posts:
A. First and foremost the defense is very strange.
1. Defense still runs away from the attacker sometimes like in PES 2011. Defense positioning and movements are not effective. Defenders run behind attackers or by their sides leaving them wide open to the goal.
2. Marking is bad, one on one is bad (because of the new dribbling and speed).
3. Offside trap is bad, amateurs dont even do this.
4. Turning and accelerating with a bad player is way too slow compared to a top player, once you make the wrong move with the left stick then you can say good bye to the attacker because he will rocket past you.
5. Tackling is very hard and not realistic.
6. I have noticed that the defenses runs along side the attacker on the flank leaving the way towards the corner area free for the attacker to run and cross. It works everytime.
7. Defenders try to set an offside trap while it was already broken by an attacker on the corner line, he crosses the ball and my defenders rush forward setting an offside trap leaving the attacker to head it home...
8. Low crosses are lame and too effective. If it doesn't hit the attacker foot, it will for sure hit your defenders foot and voila... own goal
9. Many other types of strange own goals...
B. Game feel, strategies and pace.
1. Game feels awkward, the way the players pass shoot or move with the ball is not realistic. I am not talking about animations here, I am talking about feeling the ball against the player's foot, that great feeling we had in the old PES.
2. Strategies included in the game are silly, non effective and very few. We should feel a big change when we switch formations/strategies... Also we should have a wide variety of presets and tactics like 1-2-3 passes and some other user configured tactics like in NBA plays. But hey even if they add this now, it will not make a difference because the game play is fucked. They need to re-work it from scratch then apply new tactics.
3. The game pace is not realistic, it is indeed very fast but not just that also I have noticed that a team can apply high pressure on your defense all game long and keep running around chasing the ball like monkeys without even getting tired. To my surprise, it is my defenders who get tired and dizzy after all, real crap.
C. Goalkeeping
1. This is a very easy issue to fix yet I am shocked why Konami still did not improve the goal keeping, too many rebounds to the attackers feet to follow with a clear second shot on an empty net.
2. Keeper rushing to the attacker leaving the goal wide open, positioning of the rush is very wrong.
3. Keeper leaving the ball and running to his goal line when you hit a weak pass to the defenders, instead of keeper rushing to clear his mistake he just leaves the ball 1 meter away from him leaving the attacker who is 10 meters away take it and score.
D. Refereeing
1. Really no point explaining here as all of you agree on this crap...
E. Passing
1. Passing is not controlled by the gauge even if you keep your finger pressed to give it more power (that is in the assisted mode).
2. Unassisted mode is very crappy and hard to play.
3. Long through passes have improved but still you do not feel that if it free flowing, something still weird and wrong in the direction and the power of it.
4. Short through passes go all over the place, I've seen many of my easy through passes go to a defender... Not sure why though, very annoying.
F. Shooting
1. Shooting is not realistic to say the least, real crappy at times.
G. Dribbling
1. Already mentioned... no comment...
... I am sure I forgot some stuff, I might add them later... So dudes this game is not football, it is FIFAlized shitty commercial version of PES yet once again. We are in 2012 and still do not have a football game... :shocking: :no: :unsure: :w00t