Produced by the legendary and maveric Mr. Katsuya Nagae(who sadly died in 2008,you are sadly missed and may you rest in peace)this visionary producer understood the dynamics and facets of football and how to make a great game with gameplay to boot.While wii pes does have some of this series facets its still a half-way house of pes that clings to PESs restrictions and limitations.
This series had a alchemy that was at work,a precious equililibrium in the AI and the design and the phychology of the game which meant that things didnt happen the same way,and crucially,you didnt behave in the same way in the same situation twice.It was a game that had broken free from its binery roots and origins and came gloriously,to life.
What also made this game such a joy to play was the subtlety of control and some of the finest ai executed in a football game,if you hit a ball into space your teamates would instintively move as well as attack the ball on crosses and through balls,you literally controlled everything and this game is PES but without the stabilisers and automation.
While next gen PES has attempted to bring back some of this series SOUL,it remains a empty souless paradox that trys to keep the PES ps2 fanbase happy and fails miserably.
While fifa10 does copy most of this games facets like the movement system and freedom it still fails to capture the essence that konami games have and the randomness of play and level of control that this game gave the user of the ball although the differences arent that huge.And yes everytime you turned your players foot did touch the ball,it was very simulated and adhered to the physics of real football better then the games of today do.
As a massive PES fan the last thing i want to be going on about is a 14 year old series of games,but PES now and even on the ps2 does not have the fluidity or AI of this game or the huge amount of variation on shooting and crossing,and the way you could literally strike the ball at different contact points and place it yourself.
If this series had been carried on or evolved and re-worked today the PES community would be in rapture as this is vastly superior in gameplay to fifa10.
The audio itself was a treat alone with dynamic crowds that responded to the ebb and flow of play.The better you played the more responsive and motivated your team became.No cheap goals or bad refs this game had intelligent refs that booked players and made the right calls.With full control of your defence,this game was in your hands,goals conceded where your mistakes and errors not cheap scripting or contrived by the cpu.
Please bare in mind im holding a camcorder and controller so cant be as fluid as id like.
Your kind of missing the point,but then i dont expect anyhting else from a man of very little words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
If you lived this series and were hardcore to take it to another level you would realise that both fifa11 and pes2011 dont come close to what lied underneath the rather dated graphics now.
Theres only so many times you can promise so much but deliver very little with a indentikit product year in year out that is full of flaws and technical glitches.
solarcircles1 1 year ago