Heres a review of the game got rated 97%
Turkish magazines
As we can hardly find any news on PES 2009; I would like to update you about 3 previews of Turkish magazines; EGM, Level and Oyungezer. Before reviewing previews; I have to declare that there is nothing new for us except from scores of the game and comments on gameplay. Two weeks ago I got EGM Turkey; because they had PES 2009 press copy and preview of the game. They scored the preview with 87 out of 100
. Then; I saw Level magazine; which is a reliable mag (personally); they have huge review of the game, 8-9 pages. They elaborated game modes, played lots of matches and wrote a review (not a preview) of press copy. They were extremely pleased about the game. The review score is %97; they do not think that they will change their mind on score, when they get the final release. Editor of mag is the reliable guy; who has been my main source since PES 2. He told me that he has been totally satisfied about gameplay, graphics, animations etc. His motto in his email to me was (something like) Return of the King. In a while; mag had reviewed PES 2008 with a score 6.7 or 7.0 out of 10. As they expressed all the cons of PES 2008 have been trimmed out; and finally we got the beauty of PES. They mentioned about improved ball physics, AI, slowed down game speed, flexible animations. They called PES 2008 as a pinball soccer and 2009 as a real one. Finally; yesterday I got it Oyungezer Mag; they had 2 pages preview. They expressed the same things. It tastes like PES, but there are still problems related with goal keepers. Sometimes, silly shoots, passes might be a goal as a result of stupid acts of keepers. As they told; this is not a so negative point, because in PES 2009 defenses are much stronger and it is really hard to beat defensive player even with Kaka, Adriano, Messi etc. therefore; mistakes of the keepers might be the only chance for scoring. They also told that some of the star players has automatic movement (skills) to beat the defensive players; a few of them are new kind of skills, movements. When they compare the game with PES 2008, it is relatively easy game. As usual, they labeled the game as the one what PES 2008 should have been.
To sum up three mags;
-ball physics is really improved. You can feel the resistance of the wind.
-AI change game style much more according to score of the match.
-a few new tricks.
-improved defensive players. It is not possible to pass the defense with a skilled player.
- There are lots of different chances in all kinds of balls. In PES 2008, badly scripted balls resulted with nothing but boredom. It enriches the gameplay experience.
- In their copy; squads are (as usual) not up to date. Even, Hakan Sukur is still playing for Galatasaray, although he retired in June.
-Sometimes; automatic movements of players results with silly penalties, corners, fouls.
-Animations and graphics are really improved.
-become a legend is real fun. You have to work harder in training matches to play in 11. Otherwise; you watch the games. There is an option to view the match in *4 speed.
-There is a big question mark related with licenses.
- Silly goal keeper movements, although they are improved a little bit more.
- Intro (video) is really really so bad.
