Sorry I can't agree with that. I don't see anything realistic in the gameplay. It's all through pass, down the middle or over the top into the wings then near post pass. Over and over. Plus the fact that the game is so repetiive in passing moves and goals scored, it instantly becomes unrealistic.
Not to mention the AI pressing all match with no stamina effects of any description, and it all adds up to a really unrealistic representation of the game IMO.
I agree with suupertalk. In real football you don't see:
1 - high line defenses in every team. If you want them to get back, you have to press D-Pad back everytime the oponnent have the ball, it should be otherwise, the defense sould position where we command them on the tactics menu, and you only have to press D-Pad forward if you want them to come up to pressure or to gain an offside.
2 - lofted trough ball possible with any player with pin point accuracy
3 - Lob shoot goals almost in every side of the pitch, even if you shoot from the corner line, you score with lob shoots.
4 - Keepers defending every shoot from 30 yards or longer.
5 - lofted shooting in the area, where as someone said before its goal 99% of the time, and if you just press L1 with a short time square, the keeper always dive under the ball.
6 - almost every shoot on basic shooting goes in the goal or near the post, and when its near the post you will know because keepers just don dive to it, they just stair at the ball because scripting have decided it would not be a goal.
7 - free kicks are to damn easy with no skiil at all. What was wrong with the old system? it was the best system of every footbal game, with no guide lines, and where with the right player you could do some magic ( roberto carlos and beckham od PS2 days are magic).
8 - headers seem to be random, some times they do a first time header, some times they don't react at all, and some times they chest the ball and only after that they shoot.
9 - fouls not given, because the new physics system is very good in my opinion, and we have much contact the referee seem to not know what to do, so you can just stumble into another player to get the ball with no foul given.
10 - when you are under pressure sometimes you just can pass in a straight line, or the player keeps running and doing nothing even if you pressed the button long time ago ( it just resembles the stumble animation of PES 2011 without the stumble)
11 - Stamina system almost non existant
12 - animations take to long to finish sometimes, and you cannot do anything about it, speccialy in deffence with slower players and with less ball control, it lacks urgency.
13 - This game still resumes to fast players, the creative ones have little to no importance in this game, and its been like that all this GEN. In PS2 days you had fast players as defenders were good to, you can fight them and because the trough balls are not even closer to effective as they are now, the game was balances. If you remember we had martins who runs at a 98 or 99 speed, but in front of the goal was horrendous with a poor finishing attributes, missing many times the goal, despite creating opportunities.
14 - lack of atmosphere conditions, Is that even possible in a game in 2013?? Lack of stadiums, lack of erhhh lets say "CONTENT", PES 2014 must be one of the most empty games of all times.
15 - The L1+RS to send a player forward is wrongly implemented, they only run forward in straight lines and they keep going and going even if the ball is not given to them and they are miles offside.
16 - Your defenders tend to track a player, not respecting the defense line.
Well i could keep going and going but its to many things, and despite of what we say to Konami, they don't listen, they don't care, and they will only notice when nobody cares about their game, and the sales become so poor that they would not have funds to keep the series going.
But despite that,they did many things right, like the physics, the weight of players, the passing system is good but could be much better, the stadium presentations and color palette i thinks its very nice this year, the ball physics are good, but that's all that i can remember that its well implemented and truly functioning as it should be.
Like many have said, the game lacks SOUL, lacks some basic fundamentals, that makes football so special, so addictive.
