Unfortunately this forum is flooded with fanboys, say anything against PES and they will eat you alive, branding you names such as troll and whatnot (wait for the posts below). Like it or not, PES 2011 is a bad game. Yes I said it. Just because it is much better than the epic failure 2010 was doesn't mean this one is great.
I'm annoyed at the abundance of bugs and AI screw-ups in this game.
Goalkeepers are absolutely terrible, always punch (a lot of the times to the opponent). Act stupid on a lot of passes and shots, also GK animations suck big time.
AI is flawed, both offensive and defensive:
Offensive: players stay offside for half an hour. They don't make runs when its time. This happens so often it ain't funny, like you're 2 against 1 against a defender, so the other player, just like any other player in football should naturally make a run so the player with possession can feed him the final ball, but guess what he does? He stands where he is, and on some cases even runs back! I mean as much as its frustrating, it is actually funny sometimes to watch it, I just hope no kids watch this to learn football lessons.
Defensive: Defenders allow the most ridiculous balls reach attackers without even trying to intercept or at least position themselves so that the attacker will have it a tad harder (I'm talking schoolboy errors here) and run in wrong direction for Mr. Striker(s) to get 1on1 (or 2on1) against goalie (what gentlemen they are).
Players fail to intercept the easiest of balls/passes, and I'm not talking stretching tackles or blocks here, cause that just don't happen in PES. I'm talking -"hey Mr. Defender, would you mind blocking the ball that is slowly passing 5 centimetres from your feet?" -"meh!"
Collision detection is awful. Raped the attacker and ref says play on? Got the ball cleanly and ref says penalty? Get used to it!
Online is...let's not even go there. Awful servers.
I'm not sure how anyone, with a sane mind can call PES a great game. You don't have to wait to find the flaws, I recommend you to just play a
single match and you'll encounter a
handful of game-breaking flaws. Rest assured, there are so many that I couldn't even bother mentioning them in this thread.
No, the king is
not back. Shame I'm bored of FIFA after playing it so much last year.
PS: Just a few AI fuck-ups:
YouTube - PES 2011 Shocking AI
YouTube - Pes 2011 Demo Terrible AI Defending
YouTube - PES 2011 Stupid Keeper
YouTube - PES2011 AI cheating
YouTube - PES 2011 - No foul!
YouTube - PES 2011 - No foul?
YouTube - WTF was that? or Stupid AI in PES 2011 Demo
YouTube - PES 2011 AI and Bugs