Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Disappointing"

Let me start with the only improvement Konami made in this game.

After so many years of the stupid tackle bug (when you tried a tackle at the same moment the opponent made a pass, the tackle was made from another of your players, which usually ended up with a red card and/or penalty against you), Konami has finally fixed this.

Now the bad things., which is practically everything else:

- remember the stupid tackle bug? Now your player will still make the tackle, but if you hit the opponent that no longer has the ball, your player will not be carded. So you can keep on making tackles to players that don't have the ball...

- you almost have no chance of getting past defenders unless you have a controller to make stupid feints

- it's very frustrating to see a single player from the pc getting past every defender of yours with those new feints, that you can't do unless you have a controller.

- the pc is always trying to break your legs with tackles, but only a minority of them are called foul by the referee. More amazingly, when they tackle and the ball goes out, most of the times the referee gives the ball to the pc.

- Most of your shots will always hit an opponent player! The others will hit the woodwork. If you're lucky enough to not hist any of those, the opponent goalkeeper will do an amazing save.

- 99% of computer's freekicks are goal. In the past games, I used to put a defender in the goal line where I knew the freekick was going to. But now that doesn't work: you just have to admit that you will get a goal, so you must not do any foul (which is very difficult and out of your control considering the new defending system).


- You can now buy abilities improvements to your players! What the hell??

- You now have boots to increase the player's abilities?? Omg...

- If you cross too close to the end line (which in real life are usually the best crosses...) the ball will always go directly to the goalkeeper...

- Did I mention that you have no chance of scoring a goal without feints???

- Absolutely the same old stupid commentaries! Pleeeease, Konami!

- I could go on and on... Like when you have a throw in, you immediately lose the ball when your teammae receives it...


Seems to me that Konami is making this game to much worse every year that one day they could pick one of those old PES games, sell it as a new one, and it would be a success...