Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 Demo #1 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Yeats]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simba

I put FIFA 12 on just now and I literally couldn't play past 1 half of a game. It's just not on PES' level in terms of gameplay. FIFA is an arcade game, PES is a SIMULATION and I love it already. I'm just hoping this enthusiasm remains after the next demo.

Not wanting to start a war and I love FIFA 12, but here are two simple examples of why you're correct, and why people say PES feels organic, and that anything can happen. This is what I'm seeing in the demo:

1. CPU clearances upfield go into space, sometimes to your player standing alone. In FIFA, CPU clearances are auto-programmed to always find a CPU player, after which you have to move your man into postion to jump for the ball and try and steal it away.

2. I shot on goal; it hit the GK in the right shoulder, then hit his arm, deflecting right to my striker who popped it into the goal. I had this momentary sense of shock and surprise as I saw the ball come loose and my striker standing there. It was glorious. In FIFA, bounces like that are pre-programmed where they'll end up; there's no sense of surprise or wonder or anything pertaining to real-world physics. The goalie will for example inexplicably punch the ball out when he doesn't and shouldn't have to, right onto the awaiting foot of an attacking player.

Night and day, that's what we've got goin' here.

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by Yeats

Someone suggested it could be level related. So I upped the difficulty, and sure enough the lobbed stuff has more or less vanished.

What level are you playing on?

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Simba

I put FIFA 12 on just now and I literally couldn't play past 1 half of a game. It's just not on PES' level in terms of gameplay. FIFA is an arcade game, PES is a SIMULATION and I love it already. I'm just hoping this enthusiasm remains after the next demo.

It's hard to go back to FIFA12 after playing this demo. Everything just feels generic, flat, and predicable. I still will get FIFA13 but if this game is as solid as it seems now then we'll have a repeat of 2011 where the game lived in my disc tray.

[aloncho11]

Balotelli's signature "lack of emotion" celebration

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by aloncho11

Balotelli's signature "lack of emotion" celebration

They actually have it in there? That is cool

[Yeats]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezio

What level are you playing on?

Started out on Daddy Don't Hurt Me and have since moved up to You Really Want To Win, Don't You?

Regular for now while I get used to the player cam + all manual.

[aloncho11]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezio

They actually have it in there? That is cool

Indeed. I think he does it every time he scores 2 goals

[RoyceDa59]

Quote: Originally Posted by aloncho11

Indeed. I think he does it every time he scores 2 goals

Whaaaat that's cool.