Pro Evo 2008 demo online

[Crybaby Bunting]

The demo for PES2K8 is now online and looks like the networks going very slowly.

Anyone else having trouble getting past 0% after 5 minutes?

[King Ellis]

I'm up to 7% after a few mins, quite looking forward to trying it, not sure when i'll get it though, don't wanna pay £40 for it. Hopefully it will become cheaper second hand soon after.

[Guest jonnocool91]

How do I find this?

[King Ellis]

If you are in Europe then go to the XBLM blade > game demos > new arrivals. If you're elsewhere then you're shit out of luck.

[wozzi]

I wish I had Xbox live.

Ah, well at least only around a month until release.

Edited September 21, 2007 by wozzi

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

It really is going slow, I'm going out soon, hopefully it'll be done by the time I get back. Hopefully it does better than the Fifa demo did. I did enjoy the Fifa demo so it has a little to live up to.

[FLiam]

I left it downloading while I went on a driving lesson, it was stuck at 28%, and has been for ages, I restarted the download and it's taking forever.

I just want to play it.

[King Ellis]

Yay! Finally!

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Yup, I just played my first game and got beaten 2-0 by the mighty Turkey as the Argies. Any idea on how to dive yet anyone?

[Lord Nibbler]

Does the demo allow multiplayer?

[Michael]

This is like an arcade game with the stupidly speedy pace.

I don't like is my initial thought.

[King Ellis]

Diving, according to the controls, is Left Bumper + Left Trigger + Right Bumper, yet to try it.

Think the demo allows for local multiplayer.

Now for my thoughts. Definately differentm seems a lot slicker. It's hard for me to guage my thoughs on gameplay since it's stuck on a closer camera, I prefer wide. This seems ok though.

lol, yellow card. There's a lot of nice little touches, some are annoying though. Playing to the whistle is ok if you're close to goal but it will get very tedious in your own box or like on the half way line.

Oh yeah, my first game was Portugal 2-2 Turkey on regular difficulty. They took the lead with Sukur after a corner but Chrissy Ronaldo took us into the lead after a sweet half volley. Then some slack defending let them equalise in the last seconds. Bah.

Edited September 21, 2007 by TheEllisComplex

[alldaws1]

What is it with football demos and me not being able to score on them?

[King Ellis]

Bwahahahaha, playing as Spain vs France and I had Silva down the left. Deceided i'd try for a dive so I went for it. Unfortunately I timed it wrong and the defender seemed to be backing off, thus weakening my case...or so I thought.

The defending player started waving his arms wildly and the ref ran up and issued a card. The pop up confirmed it, yellow card for Ribery. Penalty. Chuss!

...

Fucking missed the pen. Fucking poetic justice. :thumbsdown:

Ha! Now playing as Portugal again and Chrissy Ronaldo just recieved a pass and as he went to started a dribble he knocked the ball behind his right foot with his left. Cool.

I've decided that winning pens by diving is far more fun that it has any right to be. It deserves it's own achivement.

Edited September 21, 2007 by TheEllisComplex

[Lord Nibbler]

I've played a three games now, and in two of those games one of my defenders decided to randomly foul someone in the box, conceding a penalty. Speaking of which, what's up with the camera angle on penalties? I don't see how it's supposed to be an improvement.

I'm undecided on the demo, 5 minute matches are shit anyway.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Nice to see they've improved the booking system, now I can get sent off for a brutal two footed tackle in the middle of the pitch instead of the usual yellow card and a sympathetic commentry.

The matches flow a lot better now as well, like with last year not needing loading times for throw-ins we now hardly see any black loading screens for even a second.

Crossing seems to work a lot better now aswell, even though its more cpu assisted i actually stand a chance of crossing to the guy i want with world class players. Either that or i've just realised what LB and RB do

Goals dont seem to be as spectacular as PES6 tho, even my awesome shots from 20 yards away dont seem as... good as last year, the crowd doesn't really react as much as i thought it would

EDIT: And i take back everything i said, It's impossible to win from 3* settings

Edited September 22, 2007 by The General

[Thomas]

Is this a pc demo or xbox?

[wozzi]

Is this a pc demo or xbox?

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Turkey is an obscure team to put on the demo. Guess them's my whipping boys until the game comes out. I don't know what to think, as its obviously not a final version of the game and won't have the same slickness, smoothness etc. Its OK so far. I tried diving once and got booked.

[Dan]

Torres just dived against me, haha.

Edited September 23, 2007 by Dan