First game
Pro Evo 5 arrived half an hour or so ago! After doing a silly dance of glee I put the game in and got down to business.... and the result of that was a 5* match with me as Arsenal against Barcelona..... 10 mins game...
Arsenal 0-1 Barcelona
Giuly 90
And my first impressions? I love it!!! Have to work to keep the ball, can't just charge in with the old foot in tackle and win ball all the time. I also didn't feel that the ref was overstrict(see what I feel about that after a few games) although this did change when Pires would have been through on goal after a foot in tackle! You can see the trailing leg better in some of the foot in tackles as well, which makes it easier to see why you are being penalised for them. I will need to take a look at then manual also, cos I had 3 or 4 shots and all bar one were very wayward lol.... I had Barca hemmed in early in the 2nd half, but my lack of inventiveness meant that I couldn't break them down and I paid for it. This is even more realistic than PES4 where if you had the other team back in their own box for long enough, you were going to score 95% of the time! What can I say? Looking mighty good! A wee Konami Cup club tourny in order with Arsenal next I think and then some editing of team names!
P.S Appears as if the rating system might still be silly, as no-one achieved higher than a 7.0, but will see for sure when someone nets a hat-trick or something.