Pro Evolution Soccer\Winning Eleven 2008

[Lord Nibbler]

It wouldn't be too hard to make a Wii version work. Just turn the Wiimote sideways like a NES controller, use the motion sensor to move around...wouldn't really be an improvement on the other versions, just an alternative for people who don't have a PS3 or a 360.

[Cactus Drags]

The Wii controller isn't really suited to any serious game to be honest. I'm amazed they made it work for Zelda and that. There just aren't really enough buttons to accomadate the increasingly complex control schemes. I realize that that's what the motion sensoring stuff is for, but I'd rather stick with conventional control schemes.

There's something that irks me about those screenshots, and I'm not sure why. I want to say it's cartoony looking, but that's not quite right.

Edited July 5, 2007 by Dragsy 7-0

[KevinStorm]

Would Pro Evo 2007 still be fun for someone who doesn't know anything about soccer/football?

I'm in the mood lately for a good sports game, but I suck tremendously at baseball games and the Madden series kind of bores me.

[Spee]

I'm sure I heard somewhere there'll also be a Wii version -- it would make a lot of sense if there was!

I'd love to hear your reasons as to why it would make sense. The PES series has had no appearance on a Nintendo home console before, the ISS series did see action on the N64/GC though. The DS version could get the ball rolling on Nintendo cooperation but I don't see it happening. The Wiimote isn't really designed for a football game and I can't think how you'd motion it for football actions, penalties maybe. Plus you'd figure they'd see how EA fair with FIFA before they start thinking of doing something for the Wii.

Why it would make sense? Simple -- the Wii is the hottest console ticket right now, and money talks -- obviously KCET will make buckets with such a wide range of foramts to release PES7 on anyway; games like this are designed to reach a wide a market of consoles as possible. I'm well aware that the series under its current name hasn't been on a home Nintendo console, much to my chagrin (indeed, only with the release of PES6 on the DS a few months after the other formats did the series grace any Nintendo machine).

Edited July 7, 2007 by Spee

[The Quasi Juice]

I've skipped Pro Evo 2007, still playing the 2006 one because I read it wasn't much of an improvement. Hopefully the new one WILL be better than 2006. They need to take out things like your own defenders running away from the ball when you're not playing with them, also a lot of the times for me when the ball goes out and it was clearly for me the opponents gets the goal kick or throw in anyways. I can go on for a while but my point is I want them to make Pro Evo way better than ever and it's not impossible to do so I think.

[Colly]

I'm actually convinced the press release is mistranslated every year, but who cares as long as its good when it comes out?

Classic Newcastle would rule the school and save me struggling to create my 95 team every time. I'm pretty crap at creating players. As long as Rob Lee's in it.

[wozzi]

Pro Evo 2008 Nets an Owen Goal

So Michael Owen to be the new face of Pro Evo with Cristiano Ronaldo. If Owen's on the cover in a Newcastle shirt I hope this means that Newcastle will be licensed. (Y)

[King Ellis]

Yeah, this'll just be like the time they had Pierluigi Collina on the cover and in the game too.

Oh wait...

[Herr Matzat]

Who cares about screenshots, it´s soccer the GFX you need to play don´t realy have a need to be beter and the closups do shit... i always turn them of/skip them.

[Vamp]

They need to take out things like your own defenders running away from the ball when you're not playing with them, also a lot of the times for me when the ball goes out and it was clearly for me the opponents gets the goal kick or throw in anyways. I can go on for a while but my point is I want them to make Pro Evo way better than ever and it's not impossible to do so I think.

[Lord Nibbler]

But that's part of the realism that the game has. Players are always moving away from the ball now and quite often the referee and linesman get a decision the wrong way round. It's realism.

[METALMAN]

Seeing as you can get gamecube and SNES controllers for the Wii it might make sense to optimise FIFA and Pro Evo for one of them. The only problem with that is as far as I'm aware most Wii owners haven't bought them.

[Colly]

Who cares about screenshots, it´s soccer the GFX you need to play don´t realy have a need to be beter and the closups do shit... i always turn them of/skip them.

[Herr Matzat]

oh oh oh, someone is smart.

That’s f´n PES 3, tell me what did the extra Polygones and GFX bring you in this view (in wich you play in) besides slowdowns?

You don’t care, you get a hardone from FMV and licenses. Screw game play. Right?

Edited July 22, 2007 by Michael Matzat on a Plane

[therockbox]

He didn't say that.

[Vamp]

What's realistic about defenders seeing a forward bearing down on goal and deciding to run away from them?

[Zaz]

What's realistic about defenders seeing a forward bearing down on goal and deciding to run away from them?

Ok, maybe not running away, but there's a fair number of players in the modern game who back away from an attacker.

[therockbox]

But there's jockeying or shadowing a striker, then there's running away in a completely different direction. Every year they seem to make a big deal about improvements to the AI, but it just seems to get worse.

[Herr Matzat]

He didn't say that.

[therockbox]

But the majority of 'casual gamers' do care about graphics, you only have to look at the amount of people that sneer at Pro Evo because they haven't got the full licenses like FIFA. I'm assuming they actually want their game to sell, so they have to make it appeal to as many people as possible. Do I care about how realistic it looks? No, but a lot of people do.