Ok, so I've played about a game with Santos, Napoli and Porto. First of all I'm disappointed at how easy the game is, PES 2011 took me an age before I could start scoring, but with this I was notching 3 or 4 a game right from the off on Top Player. Not that bothered as online is always there, still, would have liked to have started a ML for a few weeks.....
As for the game itself, wow. The sense of freedom is absolutely jaw dropping, it's the first time I've ever felt I could do exactly what I wanted in a football game. Everything is a gamble or a chance, every situation is unscripted and can result in any outcome. It's staggering. The pace of the game is also wonderful, a tad slower than PES 2011 but with an injection of acceleration for sprinting. Finally you can get away from a marker with a turn of speed, but it never felt once like it'd be abused. Tackling is very much like the demo of PES 2011, in that little nicks and mistimed stab tackles result in freekicks, lovely.
Unfortunately shooting & keeping really let the game down. It's very unsatisfying watching a shot trickle in, and the unusual number of attempts that find their way into the net devalues it somewhat. It's not exactly gamebreaking, but enough of a concern to really dampen the game, I can see a lot of high scoring games resulting from it. That said, longs shots seem a bit more fierce, scored a cracking effort with Guarin, a swerving piledriver that kept low and powerful.
Overall I'm chuffed, it's just a really fluid, seamless experience. I'll be staggered if this doesn't cause a shift in support back to Konami, as it really is lightyears ahead of the competition. And I don't say that lightly, I absolutely hated 2008, 2009 & 2010, while 2011 took a week or two to win me round.
Guys, a quick question:
Would you say those who can play PES 2011 on medium settings will be able to play PES 2012 just as well?
Is the game much heavier in the graphics department?
Because after so much hype and anticipation, if I can't play this, I might just murder someone!
Cheers
My laptop was pretty average when I bought it two years ago, however runs the game fine on top resolution.
