When the AI is on cheating mode, this game is easily one of the worst if not the worst football game ever.
In PES 2012 there's no AI. We should take the "I" off of it. Intelligence ? That doesn't exist. Artifical ? Absolutely, absolutely the most artificial I've seen on a game. It's artificial in the sense that CPU players are not human at all, they are machines in every aspect, wich also destroys any sense of individuality, but it's articficial specially physically speaking
I wish I could record a video to show how flawed the CPU AI is. It comes to a point that it's laughable and even offensice to the consumers. Shame on you Konami for producing a game that can offer such terrible experience.
The AI pressure and the fact that our player on the ball has to face 2 players in every part of the field are not the only HUGE problem. When the CPU AI is on those days with ridiculous defence AI, in wich every player is surronded by two men who follow perfectly every movementon the ball, MAKE THIS TEST to watch carefully what's really going on: just try to pass the ball around your defenders when the back line is on the haf line of the field, don't move forward and keep your eyes on just ONE of the Cpu attacking player.... guys, you will see that ONE attacking player of CPU Ai is almot ENOUGH to mark your whole defence because he can "follow" the ball's path, passing from feet to feet, from the left side of the pitch to the other side without ANY fatigue. He starts to mark, let's say, RB and if you pass the ball around till it comes to your LB or LM, he (THE SAME PLAYER) ends up marking your players on the other side of the pitch without any problem, and if you continue to pass the ball around this time from LB to RB or RM, he (the same player) will be able to mark your players again from the right side of yout defence, and it's a a cicle that happens to every cpu player in every part of the field.
This happens with ALL cpu players, every cpu player is a machine to mark, it is ridiculously artificial. And the provision that Ai attacking players have to help the team defensively on this game is also too artificial, that doesn't exist irl. Actually every CPU player player is lika machines, a robots. Make this test, you can choose any cpu player you want, keep your eyes on him and see how he can keep sprinting from one to another player (your players on the ball) the whole field, one player alone is always helping the defence to mark at least 3 of your players. Atthe time you made a lateral pass, no matter how distant is your player to reciever one, the cpu player that was marking the one who passed the ball can always sprint to mark the other player who recieved the bal, it's a tiring cycle and totaly unfair.
I don't if I made that clear, pardon for my english, but i'm really disgusted how cpu defend on this game and I don't how I can express the ridiculous things I see on this game, completely flawed.