I haven't played US version, I played European, Japanese and Asian version, the best gameplay now is on Asian version patch 1.02, AI is way better, teams play different. You can donwload it from PSN HK store.
Thanks for telling your experience with all the versions.
I want to tell, that for Xbox 360, the Asian version is up to TU 5, so TU 2 is not the final one. Are you on PC and TU 2 is final there, or are you just reject to use TU 5 and stay on TU 2, because the gameplay is better on it?
My thoughts of PES 2014 are that it is slightly better than 2013 (comapring "+" and "-" for both ), but only two of all the bad things really ruin the experience for me:
1. Keepers
- They are not "keepers", they're just normal people walking near the post... if you know what i mean. The other things for them, you guys already said.
2. The lack of normal dribble
- I don't know why Konami made such a bad decision to remove the normal left stick dribble, and now there is only glued to the foot slow dribble, or running... Nothing in between. This is one of the reasons for lack of individuality and lack of different dribble animations. Also this way it became a fake physical battles, body coliding into another body everywhere on the pitch, because reaching the ball means coliding with the other body..
3. Other problems
- Far too many animations take too long to acomplish, compared to real world moves. There is not enough realistic dynamic in dribble anymore.
- Shoots also seemed a bit fake, because of the unproper animation to it. "After-shot" body animation of players is like they don't shoot miliseconds before.. It's like a "little foot movement <=> fast shot" . The ball goes out of the foot at very unrealistical speed depending on the "seen" foot planting and movement.
- CPU variety of play, fastly done unreal stats and formations for the teams. I mean it doesn't have to be our work to do them properly..
- Fastly done ML with very little features, bad penalty system, broken "one-touch" shots, in some situations "catch up" is a bit stronger than it should be and many more small things, making our faces to look like this -_-
In the end the feel on the field is still better than FIFA, like always. PES is for a football, FIFA is for a video game, but the way the things go, they may become on-par next years.
PS. By the way i know the answer, why we will never have a perfect PES, and there always be bugs and bad things. It is very easy, if you think a bit what will happen if we have this perfect PES. It's the same like the other games, which are published every year - new part.. The problem is the same, as the problem for the most bad things happening in the world at all. Its the word starting with M .