Id like to share some impressions Ive been having with the full game so far:
I didint play as much as I should to give a more in deph impressions. I just played skme few ML games and some online matchs.
What I can say about the offline game (ML) is that the so far is very good and fair kn top player level + manual passing. I played like 5 matchs against 4 teams and there wasnt a single momente I feel cheated, wich is something very surprising when compared to last years game in wich the very first matchs playing for a tournament with similar rules to CL (two games, home and away), I could easily feel that if I replayed the match like 10 times, no matter how well I played I would lose.
One of the things that I really like this game is that midfield defensively is smart enougb to draw back to help the defence and conver the big box, making it harder for the cpu to infiltrate, and defenders do whatever is possible to deflect shoots or cut passes etc, and this happens in a fair way for both CPU and your teammates AI.
There were games that I feel like I could win ball possession too easily, but I think that has a lot to do with the team you play against. In a away match against Santos FC, they had many, many shoots on goals from inside and outside the box, and most of them came from Lucas Lima wich seemed to be easily the most dangerous player, a proper use of player individuality from CPU.
One addition I teally love this is the four different levels of defence/attack attitude, its very useful and it creates that feeling that, just like in real life, in the same match you can have different moments where a team has more attitude, ball possession and attacking plays than other and, accoding to the match context, it can be totally switched to the other team, that is, the team that is playing very defensively suffering pressure from opponents attack is now the team that dominates possessik and goes on attack to desperstly score. This is very lifelike, it happens very oftenly on big matchs and its something PES SEEMS to deliver it this year brilliant. It the type of shit that Goliath really can provide (sorry).
As for my online experienfe so far, as Ive said here many times, I dont care mucb about ranks, points, myclub and shit like. For it doesnt worth the time being stressed by matchs that count points as football games, imo, never offered a fair and balanced gameplay.
Im more like a masochist. I dont go online to challenge people, but to challenge myself. Id like to see how well I play on manual against assisted players. Its a masochist hobby that Ive been doing since FIFA 09 playing unranked matchs.
The first day of my online adventure was terrible. Ridiculously lagged and I simply couldnt do anything, I was easily being beaten by 4x0, 5x1 etc. Initially I thought manufal ve assisted was even more unbalanced this year.
But that first impression on my first day is something from the past. Last night I played like 10 matchs or more. Some few matchs were almost lag free, some still felt a bit unresponsive and lagged, but it was a tottaly different experience. I won some, lost some and draw many matchs. No math was high scoring. I think I readapt myself to how an online match against human must be played, I felt like the matchs allowed me to be creative on the field and for that reason the experience was terrific! I really hope the online experience doesnt suffer from this inconsistency.
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