I didnt think it would be possible but Konami have actually managed to make Be a Pro mode even worse than it was first time around.
I started at West Ham on pro difficulty and I understand that it's meant to start off hard and your team wont be the best but this is a joke. The AI of my team mates is nothing short of disgraceful. I have never in all my 32 years played a football game where your team mates actively try to AVOID the ball. They just refuse to go near it or even run away from it to allow the computer controlled team to get it! They refuse to put a foot in and constantly allow the other team to stroll through the midfield or down the wing to get a cross in. They'll walk along beside them, oh yeah, no chance of an actual tackle going in though.
Then there are the endless periods of play where the comp just zips the ball around between it's players while your team mates look on in awe. I once had to watch that happen for almost an entire half! Who was I up against? Barcelona? Real Madrid? Nope, it was Hull. Those pioneers of total football. How on earth am I meant to get involved in this game?
There are also the times when players walk the ball off the pitch for no apparent reason and your team mates insane obsession with passing the ball backwards to try to create a triangle of passes. There's the passes that are hit without any power at all which allows the comp to easily intercept and of course the bordering on comical sluggish way your own player reacts to any button presses you try. Or it would be comical if I hadn't shelled out £40 for this tripe.
Again, I know it's meant to start off hard but this is nothing more than a frustrating, soul destroying grind of a mode. There's nothing there that makes me want to persevere through it to try to get better. Why should I when the AI is this broken?
Konami have conned us all again. They've taken £40 of my hard earned for a bunch of meaningless cosmetic changes. They have fixed NOTHING in this game. In fact, they've made it worse. No one can tell me they played this game, this mode especially and thought: "Yep, that's excellent work team! Well done!"
I thought EA were the rip off merchants but they could learn a thing or two from Konami. They should be ashamed of themselves.
FIFA is garbage but Pro Evo is a shadow of it's former glory.
It's a sad day when I'm thinking of giving up entirely on console footy games. They can get American Football, Baseball and Ice Hockey down to a T but no one seems to be able to convert the beautiful game into something playable on a console.
I started at West Ham on pro difficulty and I understand that it's meant to start off hard and your team wont be the best but this is a joke. The AI of my team mates is nothing short of disgraceful. I have never in all my 32 years played a football game where your team mates actively try to AVOID the ball. They just refuse to go near it or even run away from it to allow the computer controlled team to get it! They refuse to put a foot in and constantly allow the other team to stroll through the midfield or down the wing to get a cross in. They'll walk along beside them, oh yeah, no chance of an actual tackle going in though.
Then there are the endless periods of play where the comp just zips the ball around between it's players while your team mates look on in awe. I once had to watch that happen for almost an entire half! Who was I up against? Barcelona? Real Madrid? Nope, it was Hull. Those pioneers of total football. How on earth am I meant to get involved in this game?
There are also the times when players walk the ball off the pitch for no apparent reason and your team mates insane obsession with passing the ball backwards to try to create a triangle of passes. There's the passes that are hit without any power at all which allows the comp to easily intercept and of course the bordering on comical sluggish way your own player reacts to any button presses you try. Or it would be comical if I hadn't shelled out £40 for this tripe.
Again, I know it's meant to start off hard but this is nothing more than a frustrating, soul destroying grind of a mode. There's nothing there that makes me want to persevere through it to try to get better. Why should I when the AI is this broken?
Konami have conned us all again. They've taken £40 of my hard earned for a bunch of meaningless cosmetic changes. They have fixed NOTHING in this game. In fact, they've made it worse. No one can tell me they played this game, this mode especially and thought: "Yep, that's excellent work team! Well done!"
I thought EA were the rip off merchants but they could learn a thing or two from Konami. They should be ashamed of themselves.
FIFA is garbage but Pro Evo is a shadow of it's former glory.
It's a sad day when I'm thinking of giving up entirely on console footy games. They can get American Football, Baseball and Ice Hockey down to a T but no one seems to be able to convert the beautiful game into something playable on a console.
