Frustrations with PES 2009

Posted by William | Filed under Opinion

We’ve been loving playing PES 2009 since the launch, and are still loving the game as it seems to get better with each play.  But we do have a few frustrations with the game…

  • The lack of updated team rosters on launch - When you get PES 2009 out of the box, you will see that Berbatov is still at Spurs, Robhino is still at Real Madrid, Saha is not at Everton etc.  The list is massive, and it’s very frustrating looking up the transfers that happened over the summer and manually inputting them.  There are updated option files for PS3 and PC available, but not for Xbox users.
  • The team select menus are slow - When it comes to editing players from different teams in Edit mode, the vertical sliding menus for choosing a team are very slow to navigate.  So if you are trying to access Wigan from the English Premier League menu, you have to scroll all the way to the bottom.  The PES 2008 menus previewed the teams in a 5×5 grid which meant you could access each club with little time.
  • The music has improved, but is still poor - Thank you Konami for improving on last year’s awful music, but this year’s play-list is not much better and a lot of players are just switching it off.
  • The default kits are rubbish - Just go checkout Newcastle - is it me or do Newcastle play in white and black stripes rather than a solid black shirt?  Poor effort Konami.
  • The cursor select has only three settings - Throughout the years in PES you have been able to adjust quite precisely how much cpu input you wanted for changing the player cursor.  Now you only have three basic settings which is quite infuriating for some people.
  • The ball phyics can be a little pinball at times - Overall the ball physics have improved, but the ball seems to bounce around very heavily in short spaces which just looks and sounds unrealistic.  For example if you hit the post and it hits a player on the rebound, which the the goalie saves etc.
  • The goalies animations dictate their saves - The player animations in PES 2009 have improved greatly, but you will notice that the goalies are not making saves that they should on one-on-one situations as the pre-set animation does not allow for the goalie to realistically stretch out and save the ball.

Let us know about your frustrations with the game.

Permalink | October 22nd, 2008

14 Responses to “Frustrations with PES 2009”

  1. Din Sen Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Loyal Pro Evo fan, but I long for the days of the pro 5 and 6 edit modes! any chance of Konami releasing face packs of random faces? I could always find much better lookalikes of my mates than having to build a face or using the terrible X360 camera.
    Other disappointments include the ’sticky’ ball - seems to stick to defenders unrealistically.
    The crowd noise is pretty awful too, the delay between the ball crossing the line for a goal and the crowd responding is alarming!
    AI seems to have got worse, even on manual it seems like you are perpetually battling your own computer players to get into sensible positions etc!
    But still more enjoyable than FIFA on the whole, just hope next year finally sees a return to past glory!

  2. Jock Strap Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    oi oio ioiooio ioioioioioioi wot a load!!!!!!

  3. Ichi Kiriyama Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    with regards to the editing of players in order to put the proper players in the correct teams ie, Berbatov and Robhino. can you switch players from teams to teams inedit mode?

    Please help.

    Thanks.

  4. Faiz Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Just got the game, and I have three main frustrations. The first being the ball dynamics, as was mentioned, feels like a pinball machine, the AI seems to be week as players are going out of position in the weirdest ways, and finally, the spectators’ wait until the ref’s whistle to start yelling as the ball crosses a line

  5. Shadow Says:
    December 14th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    arrghh anyone else get reallly annoyed when the camera pans to the side too slowly and you miss a good shot/goal??!

  6. Greengo Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    Can anyone provide more detail on the playing screen? The manual that came with the game is in tiny print and very hard to understand. I understand the “radar” in the middle. And the lines next to players names appear to be the team mode (attack, hold, defend) I’m not sure what the circles are with the numbers and how to read them. They look like blue buttons next to the players name and they change as the player moves/changes ball possesion.

  7. Ricardinho Says:
    January 15th, 2009 at 12:29 am

    @ Greengo

    The blue buttons next to the players name is the tactics your manager is choosing for the moment

  8. Adriano Cardoso Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    I never liked the music myself in any of the versions. But how the hell should a music sound like in a soccer game? What is the music suitable for soccer anyway? Here in Brazil would be “samba” with no doubts…thank god it´s not a brazilian game for that sake…heheh
    As for me anything like Napalm Death would be great!! hauhauahau

  9. system Says:
    May 26th, 2009 at 8:02 am

    @ Adriano Cardoso

    u r right. there is no suitable music 4 soccer games, but with heavy metal i’d play much better…

    @ Greengo

    u can view your tactis in pause menu/formation settings

  10. system Says:
    May 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    my biggest frustration with pes is my comp.
    i’ve got only 256 MB RAM so i get nervous on slow game…;(

  11. done1 Says:
    June 25th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    i hate when my players slide automatically even though i got the cussor on someone else, and they do run out of positions i the wierdest ways! aaarrrrrgghhhh!!!!!

  12. FIFA fan boy Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    @ 11.

    I hate that as well.

  13. Olavah Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    i am also cheesed of with the goalie i cant activate him as i could in ps2 with simply L1 triangle i really relied on it to save me and got really good at it now in ps3 am getting perforated at will hope pes 2010 bring this lovely feature back

  14. Olavah Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    i am also cheesed off with the goalie i cant activate him as i could in ps2 with simply L1 triangle i really relied on it to save me and got really good at it now in ps3 am getting perforated at will hope PES 2010 bring this lovely feature back

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