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A step backwards in thw Winning Eleven Franchise

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In their quest to have the same popularity as FIFA, the guys at Konami have bungled up the only thing that made their celebrated soccer game stand out; gameplay. PLayer movement now reeks of FIFA 2007, as it has become substantially easier for a player to weave through the defence, and it has become much harder to effectively control defenders. Player reaction has definitely decreased, and at the moment Henry would be hard-pressed to outrun a defender like Robert Huth. Basically, all defenders have turbochargers that enable them to miraculously catch up with the speediest of players, and easily strip the ball away from them. Gone is the endless shirt pulling and defensive tugging and impeding experienced in the previous games that did so much to replicate real-life soccer situations. In short, the game has ceased to be a simulation, in its bid to draw more arcade game players. Granted, it might draw one or two sympathetic players, but in the end it will surely alienate a lot of hard-core Winning Eleven players, who played it not for the virtually unchanging graphics or the choppy, clunky, Soviet-era menus, or even the lack of licenses, but for the realistic gameplay which was surely ahead of its time. Until they did THIS piece of crap.

All Hype

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I first became taken with the idea of PES when a couple of guys in my dorm, one an avid gamer and the other a football fanatic, ridiculed me for my use of FIFA 06 (and World Cup 06). They insisted that PES was the game of the cognoscenti, and FIFA the brand of the idiotic masses. Incidentally, I didn't much care for FIFA 06 either, so when PES 2007 was released, I eagerly purchased my copy. High expectations were met with overwhelming disappointment. Gameplay is awful, and FIFA 07 certainly outperforms PES' much vaunted "realism." The good folks at Konami didn't even bother to put a set of keyboard controls into the game, and the league and tournament options are weak. Teams are scant, to say the least, and many require significant modding. The graphics remind me more of my childhood than a present-day football match, and the lack of any real options beyond gameplay (ie finances and strategy) cement PES' status as a game that isn't nearly ready for primetime...in this century at least. Buy FIFA 07 instead. It's a far superior product.

A sad excuse for a manual!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This short leaflet for a manual is an insult to Konami customers!!! The graphics look somewhat better and there are no speed nightmares this time... The game freezes into a black screen now and then.

AWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The best soccer game. The response to the my rumblepad is better than we9, graphics sobervious..... a don't give 5 stars I give 10 stars....

Great Game, Beats Fifa on all categories.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This Game is the best soccer game available out there for any system. Fifa is only an imitation of a soccer game, w/ this game u can install boots, kits, balls, faces, stadiums, socks and more. I have been playing Fifa and this for over 7 yrs and so far PES is way ahead of Fifa, online play is great also on this game.

Great game... but not much of an improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Basically the same as winning eleven 9. Still beats FIFA though. Gameplay is far superior and it just feels more involved and alive. FIFA does look prettier, but player movement is very unrealistic. Movement is much more fluid and smooth in winning eleven. FIFA looked like a bunch of ants spazzing out on the screen. What they need to do is work on graphics as well as player movement (as stated in some previous posts above). Overall, this is still a great game in the Winning Eleven series.

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