Also looks slower than 08, like I said I think they have improved upon PES08. However how is this game going to be any better than PES6 for 360? It might have more stadiums and updated teams, but it's virtually going to be the same again by the looks of the videos I've seen. I'm just fed up with the formula KONAMi use with PES. They release a great football game, then make slight tweaks to the next version only to find that it was too quick or too slow, or the referee was giving to many fouls.
Then with the next version they fix that mistake and that's about the only thing they do with it, then the next year they mess it up again, and so on. I still don't think FIFA 08 was as good as most people raved about, I just think it looked much better than it actually was because PES08 was so poor. By the looks of FIFA 09 they have improved all the key things that I considered negatives and in my opinion it looks like it could be the best football game released in a very long time. Even subtle things like running around with a player while the game loads, it's miles ahead of PES in presentation and it looks like it will be in every other department this year. Someone on evo-web put up a a scan from french PS3M review for PES 2009. They buried the game! someone translated the important bits!ĪI: terrible again, with positional work being bad.
Wings are always desserted again, a lot of traffic in the center of the pitch that makes a ping pong effect far from the build up pace of real football.ĬONTROLS: They illustrate with some examples the absolute lack of depth of the control. As you can't do things manually, CPU decides things for you, and it seems it's again a random process at times. New control introduced for moving the player without the ball seems to add nothing to the game. GOALKEEPERS: They seem to have evident flaws and let easy balls in, or simply move to the wrongs positions now and again.ĪNIMATION: They simply state they are ridiculous for next gen and make the game be a bad cover of PS2 in HD version.ĬOLLISIONS / BALL PHYSICS: They state they have changed slightly but continue to be below standards in nowaday gaming, specially collisions between players.