MY GENERAL VIEWS OF PES 2011 DEMO
1) SHOOTING
I guess the shooting was screwed up purposely only to make the game difficult.
Long range goals were a disaster in PES 2010, you can score or get the ball at target, even when the goal net is not in the screen. For every attempt you saw was the goalkeeper and his awful animation.
But Now, less attempts = less damage to goalkeeper = better goalkeeper.
Shooting : 6/10
Remark : Ball needs to be little heavier, AI attempts many acrobatic shots which needs fixing.
2) DEFENDING
David Villa, Xavi, Robben all do perfect sliding tackles and take the ball. By the time these midfield players and strikers keep you busy sliding and pressurizing, the defenders organize themselves. This is only a way of defending, but not all teams follow this style. May be we can see a different kind of defending from a Stoke City or NewCastle Utd.
Defending : 8/10
To FIX : More sliding tackles, no covering, less interception by the AI. Defenders can be beaten easily, but acceleration of the player is very bad, the defender easily catches you.
3) PLAYER MOVEMENTS AND PASSING
The AI is not up to mark, off the ball movement really sucks especially near the box. I have to do manual pass in order to make the striker/player move away from marking. I love doing it, but not everytime.
Not many times I have seen AI doing a back pass inside their own half. AI always attacks (may be because of team tactics), but same should not happen in ML. Bringing the manual modifier button to the right and close control to left makes it easy to switch between complete manual and semi manual.
Passing : 9/10
Player Movements : 7/10
Remarks : Easy to adapt. Freedom is great.
To Fix : Player becomes slow when nearing the box, even when the stamina is good. Position Swap has very less effect in a 4-3-3 formation. Player Acceleration along a diagonal run is not satisfying.
MISCELLANEOUS
Cutscenes : 5/10 ( improper cam angles, minimum visual content)
Replay mode : 5/10 ( added a new cam, but where are last year's? )
Main Menu : 10/10
In-game Menu : 8/10 (complicated, I thought we would have a bigger spider stat chart)
ScoreBoard : 9/10 ( must have an option to have club logo instead of three lettered Names)
Final Score and details : 6/10 ( After the game you have to go inside a menu to know the final scoreline )
Celebrations : 8/10 ( the player sometimes think - Should I celebrate for this goal ? LOL)
Graphics : 7/10 (grainy and not the accurate representation of colors)
Animation : 8/10 ( not all of them look sweet, but are 10x better than 2010)
Goalkeeper : ?/10 (One season in ML should tell how good GK are)
Refs : 8/10 (surely better than last year, advantage rule is not correctly implemented)
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OVERALL (demo) : 8/10
OVERALL (full game) : 8+/10 (Increment depends on improvements in ML and other game modes like Edit mode, BAL, Online)
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