Blimey, how does that work then (with connecting to other users)?

A few people have the demo of this on PS3, one of my friend's being one of them.  It was mistakingly put on PSN for a day and then taken off.

Apparently it's extremely good, even for a very old build.

Plan_XIII wrote:

A few people have the demo of this on PS3, one of my friend's being one of them.  It was mistakingly put on PSN for a day and then taken off. Apparently it's extremely good, even for a very old build.

i thought the first demo of pes 2013 was excellent.  the second demo seemed a little less so.
the final game seemed slightly less exciting again, but it played ok for a week or so then woke up and decided to fuck me over in every single game.
basically i think they made close dribbling easy in the first demo so it seemed mucho fun, then they stripped it back for launch.

Cannot be 100% certain but after one game of FIFA and one of PES, I'm 99.999999% sure I enjoyed Pro Evo more. Need to spend more time with both but PES felt far more fluid and flowing, the animation has come on heaps. Where FIFA seems like a grind, PES is more open but naturally so, it was fun to play. The front end is lo-fi, functional, but it's a whole lot more slicker in game. Need to compare both more but I could return from my fooball game sabbatical for PES this year.

The thing that irks me in Fifa is the menu/presentation. Skipping through a dozen layers of splash screens or menus with lag in between. Ugh. Plus I don't much enjoy the way the game plays.

I'd have to say of recent years, most of my enjoyment of either series has been the PES Playmaker games on Wii. Pointer controls have no right to work that well, but they do.

Pretty certain I would prefer PES if it's less stoic than FIFA but, and this is the right thread to put it in now, the demo doesn't load (on PS3). Seems quite a few people online have the same issue.

Olimite wrote:

Mine hadn't downloaded (on 360) by bedtime last night, so will have to try tonight. Hearing some good things (elsewhere) which is positive. I have asked before but am never sure. If I want to play as Palace (online), can I do so with all the updated names/stadiums/badges, etc?

Yes you can mate.  You'll need to wait for the option file though, doesn't usually take long.  You download it onto a USB stick and you're away.

Everything you need here:

http://forums.onlyproevolutions.com/

Webbins wrote:

Cannot be 100% certain but after one game of FIFA and one of PES, I'm 99.999999% sure I enjoyed Pro Evo more. Need to spend more time with both but PES felt far more fluid and flowing, the animation has come on heaps. Where FIFA seems like a grind, PES is more open but naturally so, it was fun to play. The front end is lo-fi, functional, but it's a whole lot more slicker in game. Need to compare both more but I could return from my fooball game sabbatical for PES this year.

this was pretty much my impression after one game of each last night (on PS3 for those saying it didn't work for them).  PES felt empowering, the dribbling was nice, i like how they (and FIFA) have altered the way you can change direction when sprinting, but PES's feels much nicer.  also the way players interacted physically felt much better and fairer - quick players were able to slip past players when they had momentum and didn't just get pulled back.
as a little comparison: on pes i played as bayern against colo colo, won 4-0, scored a classy typical robben goal, skinning the defender for pace, cut across onto left foot and smashed it in top corner...also scored two good headers, one a delightful curled cross from lahm met by kroos running in, the other a corner with the centre half powering in at the back post.
on fifa, i played as PSG against new york...and ground out a 0-0.  it was by no means awful, but while i felt like i had the better players, getting them to demonstrate it was much harder...crosses were floaty, zlatan didn't win any headers.
in pes i felt i could run AT defenders, in fifa it was the usual run away from them...

but then that was just after one game.

Had a good few games now.  I love it.  It just feels right.  I'm scoring all different types of goal and playing some beautiful football.

Apparently this is an old version of the game, I hope they don't change too much because it's fantastic.  I just wish we could turn the player names OFF!  I hate the way they hover above their heads.

Yep I hear you.  PES becomes frustrating on higher difficulties although I found Top Player to be just right once I got into PES 13.

Played both demo's, definitely prefer the PES one, but can't say I really enjoyed either.

PES seemed more difficult to control than last year's version, and still has a lot of the same shitty cheating AI as per usual.

Just played a game where I played in Valencia, had a few yards head start on the defender as a result, and despite me holding down sprint as he ran onto the ball, he still slowed to a crawl while 2 defenders caught him up. Managed to hold them off and score but he should've been away and left them for dead.

It did the same a couple of times with Rooney, even if you get your body in front of the defender they magically pull you back never letting you get away but not fouling either.

Look fugly as well, even for an early build.

Also, one of these days Konami, set the crowd animations to loop at fractionally different intervals and they might not look like the inmates of a Thai prison doing a dance routine.

Aye hammered it tonight but may have cooled slightly. Agree on the shitty sprint, cannot seem to get any pace going with the fast lads. See what the final game brings.

Should be.

Yeah I gave this a good crack today. After initially thinking it was promising, it soon turned to frustration and annoyance. Went back to the Fifa 14 demo, played a few games of that and it clicked.

Swing and a miss. Player models look fantastic though.

afgavinstan wrote:

After initially thinking it was promising, it soon turned to frustration and annoyance.

I'm hearing that a lot now. Will give it another go, but sounds like another miss from Konami.

Oh and the players names above heads really fucks me off on this PES.  In PES 2013 I could turn it off but not in this one.

Why oh why do Konami make stupid changes - it was just fine with player names on bottom of screen, like in FIFA.