hi guys, so on pes 2008:
It was so bad on PC and PS3
i never felt it was bad, all i remember is enjoying it online when it worked, it had some cpu compatibility/matching issues online and playerbase went down fast and so i too quit the game and never played it again, even offline, because the long shorts "baggy" issue was just so insane and goofy to (immature) past me
now after the euro and in await of the new club season i got the pes fever again and gave it a go, it is the only title i did not revisit up to now, last time it were 09 and 10 and while good at first the issues were very severe, 09 had the keepers blocking shots to the centre for easy tap ins too often and 010 had the cpu tackle slide issue not properly working if i remember correctly resulting in frustration.
i played a couple matches now and really liking it, it does not have these issues and plays fine, here some first impressions:
+ good keepers (so far)
+ good ref, solid amount of fouls AND cards (unlike PES4 and 5)
+ letting the ball through and run, taken over from pes6, important for me
+ ball physix less "magnetic" for lack of a better term, more free compared to 09
+ players taking the ball do not have this weird slight frozen stance as on 010, again more free and fluid
+ most animations have proper build up, example a CB getting the ball and then making a pass, not just passing it its the full get body position right and swing in there, in general game feels grounded and smooth
+ select attacking players for corners
+ fast transition in between scenes (with the logo), and w/o the logo example throw-ins its a smooth fade out/in no black screen
and most important: team and player ID is extremely good, 09 had some of it still in there, not 010, feels like a pes 4 and 3 mix, 06 was too repetitive i would put this above it
so yeah give it a go everyone, i remember someone posting similar thing on here (for the next gen version), so this is just further confirmation, i never played the ps2 version so thats that, but compared to other next gen titles of the time it holds up very well