Well that's the problem there isn't it. There was SO much more to PES 2010 that it's poor transitions.
Most if not all people who hate PES 2010 site the animations as the number problem. Those like me who knew the animations wouldn't be great and simply said: "Meh" Ah well, lets see how it plays", got on playing the game and looking through it, uncovering every stone and looking in every corner to see what the game was about.
BTW when i say the animations are dreadful. I mean in respect to the transitions between them and the PS2 feeling of no player inertia etc.. The motion capture animations themselves were decent. The odd few were very poor, most were solid imo. As you can see i'm not milking PES 2010 up to be a god like game but it have some very good, pleasing sim aspects to it. (AI, movement off the ball, etc..)
Why is diving impossible in PES 2010? The system they had in place was new and there were literally no situations where you could dive!
Why are the ref's so bad? It's because imo they were linked to how dreadful the animations were. The situations where there should have been fouls simply weren't implemented enough. I barley had any penalties in that game or gave many away.
I really didn't mind the extra slow turning animation for poor technique players, made you have to think and dribble and use those players wisely.
LAST YEAR with the PES 2010 demo. I could clearly see PES 2010 was a base layer of a game. You need to ask yourself why Konami would go backwards substantially in terms of animation fluidity compared to PES 2009, and 2008 even? PES 2009 was fluid, but it was still a crap arcade game.
I'm convinced PES 2011 was Started after the failure of PES 2009! Obviously it takes a long time to create a whole new game with new tech! So there was no way they could implement it into the 'famcom' engine they had inplace.
PES 2010 was about the AI, individuality game balance and tactical depth. For me, a solid game. 7/10. They succeed in that respect but obviously the dreadful animations were the problem.
PES 2010 was NOT about sexy football, with nice animations Passing and moving. You could do it in game but it didn't exactly look pleasing on the eye.
Also i almost forgot the keepers were just plain shit in PES 2010, the saving graces were that you could tel the difference between a good on and average one and they were 'randomly' shit rather than exploitable shit
There is no way on earth PES did all that development from PES 2010 to 2011 in 7-8 months, I'd say it took at least 18 months to get the engine to the stage it is now!
Now go play it some more you made bastard lol.
