Reactions on the PES 2009 demo
Posted by William | Filed under News
So far we’ve been playing the Xbox 360 version, and most of us are pleased and impressed with this years offering of Pro Evolution Soccer.
Here are our positive and negative thoughts and points about the new edition of PES, in no particular order:
- The players feel heavier, sturdier, more realistic, but slightly more sluggish.
- The ball feels heavier, and does not fly around the pitch as fast as it did in PES 2009.
- If you bump into the referee, on or off the ball, he still knocks you down to the floor, or makes you tumble.
- Attacking players still get into very offside positions.
- The slide tackles still feel good, but the ref does not always spot a good tackle and you can get booked for a decent, fair challenge.
- If you shoot and it gets blocked by a players hand/arm, this is recognised and a free-kick will be given.
- The replays are much smoother than 2008, and keep your settings from the last time you have viewed a replay (camera angle etc).
- You can view a replay after whistle has been blown, so if you shoot, miss, and then a goal kick is taken, you can then go and view the replay from the missed shot. This has not been possible in the past.
- Going from the end of the first half to the beginning of the second half is very quick, in fact just two button presses.
- Individual players have a lot more characteristic animation than before, for example Ferdinand passes exactly like he does in real life, Rooney runs exactly like he runs.
- Player collision has more animation before, it looks really realistic when two player shoulder barge or crash into each other.
- Lots more player animation overall, the game looks a lot more next-gen and realistic because of it.
- CPU controlled players call for the ball both through audio and visual prompts.
More points to follow as we play more.
4 Responses to “Reactions on the PES 2009 demo”
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Blackpool FC Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pmCan’t wait to get home tonight and download it tonight on the PS3!
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Nate Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pmGood luck playing it tonight mate. I did mine at 9pm yesterday hopong it would go wuicker as most people would have already done it and it finally completed download at 5am. Needless to say i aint had a chance to play it yet.
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Just ME Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 8:20 amI like PES 2008 more.
In PES 2009 there are bad changes in gameplay, seems now to be unfortunally like FIFA in gameplay…
- gameplay is changed, i can see that. The way player turn instantly to the left or right is not real. Is bad…
- the referee whistle is irritating.
- gamepad is changed, stupid. now trick to turn around is not working. is a pass now.
- when you score a goal, well, the ball is going out the net and enter the field… is not so cool… not realistic again. The ball is staying in the net if is coming behind the sand bags.
- nothing changed when the ball is out. You cannot still be close to the other…
- better graphic? I do not think so. Ugly stadium in demo. And no support for higher resolutions, no 1680×1050 or more.
- scoreboard is changed. Time in the left, and Teams on the right of the screen.
- I bet that lag will be again online, because I see sometimes a strange speed in game.
- when player run faster is not as fast in pes 2008… Is much slower.
- good thing is that player get up fast when he goes down, intercepted, faulted…Anyway after a few hours of playing I started to like it… again
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pesfan man Says:
October 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pmFace it guys judging from the demo pes 09 is very very bad, not worth kidding ourselves this year, i turned it off in disgrace, it was like playing fifa 1996, its ashame, it just hasnt kept up with expectation for 2nd consecutive year!!!!!
funny thing is that the review from fifa 09 demo on this site was a positive 1.
