Re: PES 2009 News Discussion Etc. (STRICTLY NO FIFA DEMO IMPRESSIONS OR POLITICAL CHA
Played the demo last night, after having played Fifa retail for an hour and actually felt sad. I was going into the demo with a bit shadenfreude as I wasn't expecting much. But it just seems so far removed from the game I, we, all loved a few years ago that it didn't even amuse me how poor it seemed. I could barely recognise anything that made me want to play the game like I used to.
It just seems so clunky, as Dar put it, with the 1st touch control actually feeling less responsive then Fifa's (probably equal to the 1st touch in the Fifa demo as the retail is improved). And as for it being an improvement on 08, well I would have to agree, it didnt give me a headache like last years demo.
Someone posted it earlier, but it seems very much geared to the Japanese market with the sounds and graphics in-game whilst adding some crappy psuedo urban graphics for the menu's. That type of crap should be reserved for the BIG games from EA, not PES. It's sh!t and has no place in a game that is supposed to be simulation, it only highlights PES' direction to go "mainstream" and with that arcade for lack of a better word.
And then the actual gameplay, well player positioning seems to be totally broken, having played Fifa the opponants and my own team set themselves up as they would when watching a real match, in PES they seemed all over the place with huge gaps everywhere. The physics/animation of players seem to be worse then on the ps2, for example Messi was running full speed along the wing and I was chasing him with some black dude called Beni Noon and made a slide tackle from behind, now with the speed and motion of the players and catching his ankle he should have tripped and fallen forward....instead Messi stood still and fell back over my Beni. I can't remember seeing anything that bad in the ps2 days, it was like they randomly started an animation for the player falling but didn't take anything in to account. And the fast response to button presses is coming at a price, Barca were attacking me and a striker "passed" the ball to a teammate. It looked very very odd so I checked it in teh replay and the barca player didnt actually have a passing animation, it was "blended" in to his running animation, so it looked like a toddler playing football, ie running against the ball and the ball shooting off in some random direction. The game is littered with these types of elements that weren't present in pes360 even, let alone the ps2 versions.
Such a shame.
Oh and the Zidane roulette is in the game, pressed r2 whilst moving Torres and he did it, I don't know how but he did. So a few of you can rejoice.
). I've been playing FIFA BAPs and to be honest found it a bit dull so far.
