Posted: January 05 2006 at 10:25am | IP Logged

I hope you're right, Ted...  But I do like playing with my Crew, and Fulham, etc. 

Maybe there's room for both?

Kevin

Posted: January 06 2006 at 5:09am | IP Logged

Kev, room for both?  If there's room for God knows how many Formula One games in my collection, there's room for two football games in yours.  Fret not, good Sir...

There is still room for FIFA and PES, by the way - much as EA are seen as slowly edging towards a Pro Evo style of play, the difference between the two games is still pronounced.  It's nice to be able to say that the gap in quality is smaller, though.

Finally dug out Pro Evo this morning for another run at things and I still don't know what I disliked about the advantage rule - it's been played quite well in all the matches I've had so far.  It'll come to me, one day.

Pressed for time at the minute, more to come this evening with luck.

Cheers,
Adam 

Edit: I meant tomorrow...

Posted: January 06 2006 at 9:52pm | IP Logged

At least EA has made FIFA's control scheme more like WE's.  I always hate having more than game for a specific sport, because I have trouble switching between control layouts.

I do love my licenses.  Might have to put both in the "library."  Might get a 360 before WE hits, too, so that could obviously affect things! 

Kevin

Posted: January 12 2006 at 5:08pm | IP Logged

Right - what I didn't like about the advantage rule was something that came over from PES4.  Sometimes if your player is fouled and the referee plays advantage, the ball might strike another of your players in the face before you can react and fizz out of play or cause you to lose possession.  In that case, my reading of things is that play should be called back since you can't reasonably have been said to gain any advantage from being hit by a flying ball.

PES4 didn't do that.  PES 5 does, sometimes, which is a start but also serves to magnify the importance of those times when it doesn't happen.  Extended play has revealed it to not be anything like as big a problem as in previous editions, but it is still there to some extent.

While I'm here, a quick note about shooting - the mechanics of things are the same as before, but it's easy to notice that the chip over the keeper is harder to pull off this year.  The option to choose placement over power has been added through the 'accuracy' button, which is ideal for situations where belting the ball into another galaxy isn't quite the best way of doing things - closing in on goal or in a one-on-one, you're more likely to find that picking your spot and sliding the ball home carries a greater dividend than a wild attempt to break the net.  Satisying when you get it right, agonising when you get it wrong, completely convincing at all times.

Cheers,
Adam