Right. The purpose of this post is not to instigate a flame war but it just a mere personal opinion.
After pledging my allegiance to pro evo series back in the psone days i tried fifa 11 after the badly done pes2011. I was trying to see why this fifa was given very high ratings and the more i played, the more i felt that is there something im missing here. I could not pinpoint it at first but then it hit me.
Animations: Those round dropped shoulders, which have been the trademark of the series since its inception, are still there especially noticeable during entrance scenes. The zombie looking players in close up. The running animation looks weird at times.
Gameplay: This did it for me. I like to play the game on highest AI difficulty and even then i was able to net goals with ease. Yes on higher difficulties the tricks are harder to carry out but to be honest they don't look nice and seem disjointed.
Curve. The curve in this game looks very abnormal, you can't bend ball that much. Im talking about that if you have the right trigger to tweak the shot you can see the ball literally go in a boomerang fashion in a U-turn towards goal.
Replays: Im not sure what you guys think but replays are sometimes nightmare to see, the camera controls and save option is just odd and don't go with the flow.
After playing this game time and again i just simply got bored and wanted to go back to pes. so i started searching and found PES6 which was the first pro evo to be released for the pc as far as i know. I got a good copy for 1 pound, applied user made patches and started playing. Immediately i felt a difference, a game 6 years old, the player movement, passing, curl, swerve all felt right. The tricks are not many but are a joy to pull off and see them again in replays. Take messi for example, i just held the R2 button whilst moving left and then right, the defender followed me but fell to the ground after i shifted direction.
If you can look past the visuals which mind you still look pretty nice with anisotropic filtering. This is a great game for football fans. If you have not played it, get a copy and try it. There is a plethora of player mods and online servers still arranging matches.
The feeling of edge of the seat moments are still intact in pes 6. I wish that konami just updates the graphics engine on this game and release it with a fifa license again.
Im gonna stick with this until the new pes2012 comes out but if it is not improved then im staying here for the time being. Peace.
After pledging my allegiance to pro evo series back in the psone days i tried fifa 11 after the badly done pes2011. I was trying to see why this fifa was given very high ratings and the more i played, the more i felt that is there something im missing here. I could not pinpoint it at first but then it hit me.
Animations: Those round dropped shoulders, which have been the trademark of the series since its inception, are still there especially noticeable during entrance scenes. The zombie looking players in close up. The running animation looks weird at times.
Gameplay: This did it for me. I like to play the game on highest AI difficulty and even then i was able to net goals with ease. Yes on higher difficulties the tricks are harder to carry out but to be honest they don't look nice and seem disjointed.
Curve. The curve in this game looks very abnormal, you can't bend ball that much. Im talking about that if you have the right trigger to tweak the shot you can see the ball literally go in a boomerang fashion in a U-turn towards goal.
Replays: Im not sure what you guys think but replays are sometimes nightmare to see, the camera controls and save option is just odd and don't go with the flow.
After playing this game time and again i just simply got bored and wanted to go back to pes. so i started searching and found PES6 which was the first pro evo to be released for the pc as far as i know. I got a good copy for 1 pound, applied user made patches and started playing. Immediately i felt a difference, a game 6 years old, the player movement, passing, curl, swerve all felt right. The tricks are not many but are a joy to pull off and see them again in replays. Take messi for example, i just held the R2 button whilst moving left and then right, the defender followed me but fell to the ground after i shifted direction.
If you can look past the visuals which mind you still look pretty nice with anisotropic filtering. This is a great game for football fans. If you have not played it, get a copy and try it. There is a plethora of player mods and online servers still arranging matches.
The feeling of edge of the seat moments are still intact in pes 6. I wish that konami just updates the graphics engine on this game and release it with a fifa license again.
Im gonna stick with this until the new pes2012 comes out but if it is not improved then im staying here for the time being. Peace.
