• This is a reminder of 3 IMPORTANT RULES:

    1- External self-promotion websites or apps are NOT allowed here, like Discord/Twitter/Patreon/etc.

    2- Do NOT post in other languages. English-only.

    3- Crack/Warez/Piracy talk is NOT allowed.

    Breaking any of the above rules will result in your messages being deleted and you will be banned upon repetition.

    Please, stop by this thread SoccerGaming Forum Rules And Guidelines and make sure you read and understand our policies.

    Thank you!

All Winning Eleven 8 Info So Far (Updated Constantly)

M

Mayor

Starting XI
WE8 FIRST IMPRESSIONS!

original thread here
by Riot @evoweb


Those who know me from posting about PES3 and at IGN know I'm legit so..I got WE8 minutes ago!!!!!!!!! I'll be writing full hands-on impressions for IGN tonight I hope, but here's some quick stuff.

The feel is the same yet very different. Presentation is all new. the fonts, the backgrounds, etc all new. Much better than before. Everythings in japanese though, so even if you knew WE7I inside out, you'll have some problems to understand what the new options are. And theres loads of them. The main menu has big icons with englis text (League, Exhibition, Options etc) which you scroll left or right. Nice. FAST loading times too.
You CAN change player names, stadium and cup names right away and I think you can also mess around the team strategies without buying it in the WE Shop.

I've played three matches so far. Compared to WE7I you can dribble easier, you dont lose the abll right away..skill players are pretty good at getting around players.

Individual animations!!! Noticeable with Ronaldo, Becks and Raul (I played with Madrid)

Pretty out of date teams since it takes 8 weeks to get approval. So no Samuel in Real, which tells you where we are at. However the rosters are larger and I was able to load up a large amount of English names from my WE7I save. I just noticed switching players from team to team is VERY easy. In the edit menyu there's a separate option for it and you just click a payer, then select the team you want him and he's there...no need to scroll around for an empty slot where to insert him!!!

The presentation and cut-scenes during gameplay dont interfere with the gamepaly at all, they really help make the athmospere better. When you shoot a goal kick

Ok back to playing...

some photos I snapped to prove this

WE8
Click to expand...
The English teams are as follows:
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Charlton, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Leeds, the team that Dabizas plays in (sorry), Liverpool, Man City, Man United (with Eagles!), Middlesborough, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottemham, team that has luzhny and Ganea...isnt that all of the premiership?

I dont have time to take photos etc explain everything. Suffice to say, based on two matches, the gameplay is superb. A bit slower pace, ball feels heavier, none of the messed up speed differentials that were in WE7I Jap and also the stats seem pretty good (ie. Kleberson and Edu are much better)

The kits look good enough atleast on AC Milan and Real.

The player models are great! Much more round than before and the faces are much improved both in modeling, textures and animation.



I do not work for IGN, I just freelance.
Click to expand...
Big John Stud!

Thanks for being smart mate, you are right.

Right now I'm at the office as I need to get craploads of work done, but my mind is elsewhere, I'll be playing the game all night to get a better feel for it.

About the new dribbles...to be honest, I dont know how to do them yet...I've seen some nice individual animations on Ronaldo, but as for the new tricks I dunno how to do them yet...the pratice mode is Extensive with loads of tips on how to do everything complete with examples so I'm gonna have to check that out in more in-depth.

There IS a lot of different animations for moves..so not everyone crosses in the same way...some players lean back, some like Ronaldo pass more on their outer sole of the foot (which looks really cool, just like he did at Euro 2004).

Based on about 7 years of playing the series I'd have to say I've never had had this good first impression on the game...like in WE7I in the ball's bouncing off players and difficult to dribble things caught my eye, but in WE8 nothing feels wrong..but that's after 6 matches. The ball physics are great...as is the player movement. Like in WE7I you can cause free-kicks by just running into players without using X or a tackle. But it feels really right here whereas in WE7I it was a bit uneven.

Heading is improved over WE7I too.

I've tried long pass methods 1 and 5. Now with 1 you can centre the ball quite accurately. The Short passing seems more accurate too, actually a whole lot more accurate.

The players faces look really, really good. Scholesy looks incredible. Also the jerseys get dirties (socks and shorts so far) and it looks great. Also there are creases in the shirt textures and small bits like that.

The AI feels really good...the centrebacks seem better, they didnt get out of position that bad. You can also control the keeper by pressing L1 and Triangle, when you do that you can control him fullly, so I tried that in a one on one situation and it worked great!

Trading players into other teams is SO painless now. Just click on a team, then player, then the team you want him in and thats' it. The empty slots are automatically filled. None of this pain in the ass scroll down, find empty slot etc crap.

I dont have the capability of taking videos (frustrates me too) and to be blunt, I dont care about the variety of boots. Though Beck's Adida's look exactly right :)

Couple of weird things...I dont where the stadium change and difficulty level options are yet :)

So far, so incredibly good...just incredible stuff really.

STOP asking me to send the game out. Get real, that wont ever happen.
Click to expand...
 
H

houston3721

Senior Squad
Originally posted by gabs485
Hey which is the team in the blue circle?
The Flag is the same as my country but I don't think my country is in the game since they suck at football.
Click to expand...
it is a club called Guingamp

i found it out from http://www.pescorner.de/index.php?nav=misc/templates&template=pes4_teams
 
M

Maynard

Club Supporter
Damn that first impressions feels sweeeet.

How i'm supposed to wait until pes4 now???

I think i'll check the ps2 price on the market.. :p

btw nice new pair of boobs you got there Mayor..
...makes my eyes rollin :mrpimp:
 
M

Maynard

Club Supporter
Well that (p)review was mouth droping!

But did you noticed the slowdown part? I didnt knew the game
had this prob even at the ps2.. or its new? :confused:

Those gameplay enhacements sounds sooooo real football :rockman:
 
J

jumbo

Starting XI
Originally posted by Maynard
Well that (p)review was mouth droping!

But did you noticed the slowdown part? I didnt knew the game
had this prob even at the ps2.. or its new? :confused:

Those gameplay enhacements sounds sooooo real football :rockman:
Click to expand...

well, there was no slowdown in we7 on ps2.
 
J

johan

Senior Squad
Well, I think we should all have a moment of silence for FIFA and EA... it`s their funeral..

R.I.P Isaac .. :|

Btw.. anyone knows how many balls are in WE8, and what brand..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.


Top