Flipper the Priest
International
- 15 July 2003
😂
Never saw the GK touch the ball never mind score. It was nice to know it could happen though.
Handball too! Never saw that again.
It's how he absolutely sprints away too!
I've noticed that handballs taper off as WE7 evolves. After the chat earlier, @fmicablues7, I went and played them all! Side-by-side like that I could notice differences. Two games on each, Brazil vs Argentina, four stars, 10 minutes same conditions each time.
WE7 is more attritional. Slower. I can see why it'd be deemed more difficult because the lack of pace on the ball meant passes were intercepted more easily. Easily the fewest shots on goal out of the five games. Two draws.
PES3, by comparison, is madness. It's cocaine WE7. Everything is quicker, your teammates bomb forward, and it's all quite cavalier. Had at least twice as many shots. A draw and a win.
So while they were both fun in different ways the US and Korean versions kind of had the worst (still amazing) of both. Two wins on both, including a 5-0 cakewalk, which was actually disappointing! Kudos to the Korean version for having the best default ball - a Nike Merlin!
Japanese WE7I still came out on top for me. Just has everything in a nice balance, and the games felt more... natural, ebbing and flowing. Two draws, including an outstanding 2-2 with a Argentina racing into a two goal lead and I gradually worked my way back into the game, culminating in a last minute equaliser that had me punching the air.
Limited sample size but there's only so much time I'm willing to sink into games that - while different - are still relatively similar. All things consideres, I'd hold up the two Japanese versions.