@Ern Dog
Thank you. I will try some of the things you mention. Especially changing the offensive or defensive levels on the fly with select and R1 or R2. I didn't know this is possible. I forgot so much about this game over the last 3 years.
I try to like this game but until now it is i little bit frustrating because of the AI. It feels strange coming from FIFA that nobody of my teammates seems to move a lot. That is why i think watching some full demo games could help. Because maybe i'm doing some major things wrong and i would see it if i could watch how other people use to play. Especially the build up play seems so slow. My left an right midfielder never seems to start into space, never seems to work the wings like they supposed to do (Robben and Ribery). Really, the movement of the AI is so different to FIFA that i feel a little bit helpless right now.
Yes, they don't make as many runs as in Fifa but they do make their runs, it's just more subtle and you have to spot them. Sometimes they just stand there, sometimes they shake a bit to indicate that they would make the run if you pass to them usually near the offside-line and other times some people are running forward into space but you have only a short, really short time to make that pass as otherwise they are very quick in offside and the opportunity is gone.
In Fifa offside happens much less because the defense-line doesn't work as well there with some defense-players always chasing the attacker... therefore the time-window to make the pass into space is there much bigger...
If you want to make your team be much more offensive, go to the time-actics-menu and erase all presets, cause these presets are overwriting any tactic-setting you would choose, erase them all, then go out of it and go to the strategy-menu and select "Radical offensive" or something like that.
In team-setup you should also make sure that player-support is at 20. You should also choose a formation that is useful for a good offensive and give the individual players their rightful roles individually on this big team-picture.
In game you should press Select and R1/R2 simultaneously to increase their offensive-awareness-level.
That way your team should play much more offensive but is of course more open in the back.. but given that the offensive-AI of the CPU is pretty tame it shouldn't be such a big problem.
Personally for me the game clicked only today this morning, after having played the demo in the last two-three days for about an hour a day. But my oh my, how it clicked. I had the most fun and the most realistic football-experience in videogame-form that I ever had with any football-game and I played a lot of them with PES 5 being my favorite... until today!
PES 2011 is pure awesomness, Konami did a fantastic job to simualate the sport.
It's far from perfect but this passing-system and the animation-system is pure geniuous, and the shooting and ballphysics are brilliant, the dribbling magnificient and the tackling just right and the individuality of the players astonishing.
The problems I see:
AI is too tame on top-player!
Referree doesn't know the advantage-rule (what the hell?!)!
Goalkeeper-animation is a bit poor and he parries too much!
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