PES 2008
posted by edlglide (ATLANTA, GA) Mar 20, 2008
Member since Feb 2008
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PES 2008 is a great game -- to an extent. EA's FIFA series has made strides over the past couple of years to catch up to the Konami game, and some people have said FIFA 2008 is finally better than PES this year.
If your main interest is online play, then I agree. PES 2008 is a mess online; the game is essentially unplayable. FIFA 2008 is a much better choice for the gamer who plans to spend most of his time online.
However, if you enjoy playing offline against the computer or your friends, then PES 2008 should be the choice. As usual, the gameplay is stellar -- players move, dribble, pass, and shoot exactly as you'd expect them to. There are a huge number of animations; you can play for hours and still see new animations every game. Everything about the game feels like real soccer; FIFA 2008 still hasn't reached this level of realistic soccer simulation.
The graphics on PES are underwhelming. It looks more like an upgraded PS2/Xbox title than a next-gen PS3/360 game. The previously mentioned animations help make up for it, but Konami should really be able to produce a game that looks better than this, especially two years into the life of these consoles.
In the end though, gameplay is what matters the most. And the gameplay is fantastic; you won't find a better soccer game. I enjoy playing the game offline in Master League mode, and the broken online play doesn't bother me as much as it will other players. Thus I give this game a 9/10 -- the gameplay is so good that it makes up for the other shortcomings.
However, as I said earlier, if you plan to spend a lot of time playing online, you should probably go with FIFA 2008. Despite still lagging behind PES in realistic gameplay, the online works wonderfully whereas PES' does not. Hopefully Konami will release a patch to fix the broken online play, but until then PES is strictly an offline experience.
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