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

[RA30]

Can someone who has played the demos answer some questions that I have?

1) Do refs call fouls and are there enough fouls by the CPU?

2) Do the CPU players chase the player from behind and the dribbling human player "staggers around" and then loses the ball?
In PES2012, CPU players would run really fast behind a dribbling player and cause the dribbler to stagger around like drunk and then lose the ball.

3) Can through-balls be played in more often than in PES2012?
Through-balls were good in PES2011 but pretty much got removed in 2012.

4) Does the ball "auto track" to a particular player?
Players on my team would ignore a ball, even if the player is closer, if the ball was pre-determined to go to a certain player.

5) Does my human player decide to run after an out-of-bounds ball or try to chase after a ball that is half the field away?
So annoying in 2012 when my player would run from midfield to a ball that is going out of bounds on the goal line.

Thanks!

[Yeats]

RA30, I'd say all your concerns have been addressed. I didn't play 2012, but you're describing a completely different game from the PES 2013 demo I'm playing! Why not download it and check it out yourself?

[Yeats]

Just fooling around with some of the player ratings using the PC editors that are available. Some very cool stuff. Body balance means everything. Lower a player's balance and he stumbles and gets knocked off the ball very easily, making that a very useful rating to consider when fielding a squad. That was an issue for me in FIFA as those ratings mean nothing at all in that game.

Another rating of interest to me is the responsiveness rating. I actually find the players too responsive and hard to control in the demo. Lowering their responsiveness makes them much easier to control with the stick, albiet more sluggish of course. In general I'd say players are rated too high in that catagory anyway. I mean Andy Carroll 82? Realistically and as far as gameplay response goes, he should probably be rated in the 40s from what I tested.

[ezio]

Quote: Originally Posted by aloncho11

Balotelli's signature "lack of emotion" celebration

Stuck it on Amateur to see if I could see it and i had to score 3 times with him before I saw it

So it is not always after the 2nd goal

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

Why am I being told that my video card does not meet the requirements, thus I have to play in safe mode???


I have a GT 650M and an i7.... I am playing Battlefield 3 on high settings and I can't play this demo??


Something is wrong...

[Cavani161]

Really enjoying how players are on the ball, I feel more in control as to what I want to do with the ball, huge plus for PES.

Liked seeing defenders jockey with attackers and not just jump in to steal the ball, but waited in position to react to what the attacker was going to do, instead of just going straight in and possibly having the attacker go around you. Huge thing for me.

Defenders seem more aware of what's going on around them, better position as you have to actually work to get past the defense and score a goal.

Wish the graphics were better, and the atmosphere. But I can live with it as I'm a sim soccer player and this plays a great game of realistic soccer just off the demo, can't wait til when it's released.

[MizzouBravesFan]

Downloaded on PS3...color me impressed.

The controls feel tight, game is fluid and everything just feels and moves "right" to me...hard to describe.

Love the off the player movement, can't tell you how many goals I've scored simply off of the CPU recognizing space and making the PROPER runs to take advantage of it.

It was a thing of beauty to play Italy and see almost everything go through Pirlo as in real life...he really bossed the match. Ronaldo is a beast and a handful to deal with, etc. You can definitely tell the difference between players and who you need to pay attention to, just as in real life.

Will def. be picking this up once it drops.

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezio

Intersting because I am on Pro and I still see it sometimes. What is intersting is I think it depends on the game and situation. I was playing against Germany and they weren't really doing it at all until I went up in the game then they tried it more which makes sense.

I think user defensive tactics play a part as well. I messed with tactics to defend deeper and saw less of it. I also saw some long range efforts. This is on pro and top player, FWIW.