Well, finally i get my copy today of this wonderful game. Being always a pes series fan, i really never care about the latest fifa´s, but now, and more on the 360, with the fail of Konami in his attempt on this console, i downloaded the demo and i said, pffff....really impressive, if they can arrange this and this, it can be awesome.
So, after to play a few games, i can say that FIFA 07 had win the battle against PES 6, almost in X360.
GRAPHICS (9,5/10)
What to say about graphics, really amazing, all the faces details, textures, t-shirts movement, skins, hair movement, all is awesome, from the minus perceptive detail until the more bigger one. Is cool to see how the players are getting sweat, dirty, along the game, and runs/move equal as his conterpartner in real life. Every player moves exactly identical as the real life one, like Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Bekcs, Rooney, Villa, etc.... is awesome.
The stadiums are beatiful in this version, from Camp Nou to Bernabeu, for to put a couple of examples, exactly as the real ones, plenty of flags, banners, etc....are really impresive, overall when night is comming.
In Pes 6 you will find 8 stadiums, well, in fifa 07 you have this:
Old Trafford
Bernabeau
San Siro
Camp Nou
Anfield
Stamford Bridge
Velodrome
Calderon
St James Park
Amsterdam Arena
BayArena
Parc des Princes
Millennium Stadium
Azteca
Delle Alpi
Allianz
Mestalla
Gerland
New Wembley
Emirates Stadium (New Arsenal)
Veltins Arena
Olimpico
Olympiastadion Berlin
Aswell the cutscenes are nice, due they are improved from the demo, there´s not slowdown effect in goal celebrations and in replays, but still a bit choppy yet the tunnel cut-scene, but is not really important indeed.
GAMEPLAY (9/10)
This point is awesome, and is really updated from the demo. The tempo of the macth is identical to a real life macth, pace in some moments and frenetic in others. You can play using a lot midfields, passing back, looking for spaces until the goal arrives or you can go in an agressive way and use a lot the sides and counter-attacks for to smash the cpu. There´s no repeated schemes like in other fifa´s or current gen....the gameplay is totally free, and is nice to see how your game is looking great when you work hard to break the defence. And this happends with cpu assistence,,,is you disable it,,,you can imagine how free are you for to play.
The I.A. is really good, i saw on some reviews that is not enought good, but is not true,,,so,,,a couple of examples. When you have the ball, your team players are looking for spaces, aproching to you, or trying to take the back of his marker, there´s a lot of possibilities to do.
Another example that i can put is about a macth that i played At.Madrid - Barça, playing with Barça. Well, i scored 2 goals, but in the last 15 minutes my players was a bit tired and then Edmilson recibes a red card for a dirty tackle from behind, so i noticed that i didnt played very well....and derepeat...what the hell?? At. Madrid making me a lot of pressure, overall on the defence for dont to go with controlled ball...oh my god...Is Torres!!!, pressuring a lot to Puyol, he steal the ball, great play and he scores, cut-scene, he takes the ball and running faster for the kick-off. You can imagine after it the intense pressure that makes me At.Madrid until the end of the macth....pfffff.....i need a lot of passes and put back my team to defend the score in the last 5 minutes. Was really great to see it like in a real macth.
A point that all people knows, players movements and ball physics go in diferent ways, resulting impredictable movements of the ball...if you dont control well the ball, you can loose it and then the forward steals the ball, makes the counter-pass, but your midfield is well positioned and making a big enffort, he recovers the ball, waits a bit, and pass back to start again the play, etc, etc.....there´s infinite possibilities. But this impredictable rebounds of the ball are not so often in the final version (in demo were too much), becoming more balanced and real.
Goalkeepers plays well finally!!!, if they can arrive to the ball, they will achieve it, but when is a strong shot from a good position and in a real life goalkeeper cannot do anything, goalkeeper will cannot do anything to stop it....so there´s too amazing saves, and sometimes some post (this last thing dont happends so often, like in past fifa´s, thing that is great), like in real life too. All is well balanced.
Another point that makes this game so real is that players heigh and weight affects his gameplay......for example Thuram dont runs so fast as Puyol,,,,Xavi and Deco will have more control and passes success than defenders, you will notice the inertia, you will notice that players have real weight. They will go tired when the end of the macth is arriving, or when they runs so much, and exhausted Messi, that had run during 70 minutes will starts to sweat a lot, play bad, etc.....then you must to make a substitution.
So you have a lot of national teams, besides of all the teams from the 6 leagues, and special teams, like world stars, etc...that need to be unlocked.
All of this makes the gameplay near to perfection. I dont know what kind of retail version had tested the people from IGN, or what were they doing during the test,,,,but,,,they are totally outside of the real feeling of this game.
SOUND (10/10)
Perfect. Simply perfect. Crowds chants are awesome singing all the hyms, chors, etc, or reacting to an steal ball, to a goal, to a tackle, and to all the action of the game. Commentary are really great, almost, the spanish version, where 2 of the most important spanish commentators makes the game more exciting. But the thing that shock me is that between all the noise of the crowd and commentarist you can hear speaker megaphony saying "with the number 9.....Samueeeeell Etooooo!!......with the number 10....Roooooonaldinho!!", and after each name, the crowd reacts with a "ehhhhhhhh!!!!". Simply amazing, and this happends with all the started team. You can hear too by megaphony is your car is bad parked, if some children is lost.....etc....is really brillant.
EXTRAS (9/10)
There´s a lot of extras, from a great player editor, with a lot of options, and when i say a lot, i dont saying 5 or 6 kind of hairs, im saying more than 25 diferent hairs....lot of options on faces creation until you achieve the player that you want. There´s the espn feature that appears under your monitor, like in a sport magazine, with the latest news about football. You can do anything that you can imagine with your team scheme, changing players positions, if they defend more or less, if they go to this side of other, to change his back number, put a lot of gear on them, to change his boots, etc....
So, you can unlock extras as more balls, videos from the best goals from the 6 leagues, etc..etc....
Manager mode is excellent with infinte posibilites until arrive to 5 year.
And Multiplayer is great, there´s not lag, etc....
And many more things to discoverd....is a long game, plenty of options and that reflects exactly a football game. I recommend totally this game.
TOTAL score 9,3/10
If you have some question about the game, please, ask.
Take care
neovico
The Mind
So, after to play a few games, i can say that FIFA 07 had win the battle against PES 6, almost in X360.
GRAPHICS (9,5/10)
What to say about graphics, really amazing, all the faces details, textures, t-shirts movement, skins, hair movement, all is awesome, from the minus perceptive detail until the more bigger one. Is cool to see how the players are getting sweat, dirty, along the game, and runs/move equal as his conterpartner in real life. Every player moves exactly identical as the real life one, like Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Bekcs, Rooney, Villa, etc.... is awesome.
The stadiums are beatiful in this version, from Camp Nou to Bernabeu, for to put a couple of examples, exactly as the real ones, plenty of flags, banners, etc....are really impresive, overall when night is comming.
In Pes 6 you will find 8 stadiums, well, in fifa 07 you have this:
Old Trafford
Bernabeau
San Siro
Camp Nou
Anfield
Stamford Bridge
Velodrome
Calderon
St James Park
Amsterdam Arena
BayArena
Parc des Princes
Millennium Stadium
Azteca
Delle Alpi
Allianz
Mestalla
Gerland
New Wembley
Emirates Stadium (New Arsenal)
Veltins Arena
Olimpico
Olympiastadion Berlin
Aswell the cutscenes are nice, due they are improved from the demo, there´s not slowdown effect in goal celebrations and in replays, but still a bit choppy yet the tunnel cut-scene, but is not really important indeed.
GAMEPLAY (9/10)
This point is awesome, and is really updated from the demo. The tempo of the macth is identical to a real life macth, pace in some moments and frenetic in others. You can play using a lot midfields, passing back, looking for spaces until the goal arrives or you can go in an agressive way and use a lot the sides and counter-attacks for to smash the cpu. There´s no repeated schemes like in other fifa´s or current gen....the gameplay is totally free, and is nice to see how your game is looking great when you work hard to break the defence. And this happends with cpu assistence,,,is you disable it,,,you can imagine how free are you for to play.
The I.A. is really good, i saw on some reviews that is not enought good, but is not true,,,so,,,a couple of examples. When you have the ball, your team players are looking for spaces, aproching to you, or trying to take the back of his marker, there´s a lot of possibilities to do.
Another example that i can put is about a macth that i played At.Madrid - Barça, playing with Barça. Well, i scored 2 goals, but in the last 15 minutes my players was a bit tired and then Edmilson recibes a red card for a dirty tackle from behind, so i noticed that i didnt played very well....and derepeat...what the hell?? At. Madrid making me a lot of pressure, overall on the defence for dont to go with controlled ball...oh my god...Is Torres!!!, pressuring a lot to Puyol, he steal the ball, great play and he scores, cut-scene, he takes the ball and running faster for the kick-off. You can imagine after it the intense pressure that makes me At.Madrid until the end of the macth....pfffff.....i need a lot of passes and put back my team to defend the score in the last 5 minutes. Was really great to see it like in a real macth.
A point that all people knows, players movements and ball physics go in diferent ways, resulting impredictable movements of the ball...if you dont control well the ball, you can loose it and then the forward steals the ball, makes the counter-pass, but your midfield is well positioned and making a big enffort, he recovers the ball, waits a bit, and pass back to start again the play, etc, etc.....there´s infinite possibilities. But this impredictable rebounds of the ball are not so often in the final version (in demo were too much), becoming more balanced and real.
Goalkeepers plays well finally!!!, if they can arrive to the ball, they will achieve it, but when is a strong shot from a good position and in a real life goalkeeper cannot do anything, goalkeeper will cannot do anything to stop it....so there´s too amazing saves, and sometimes some post (this last thing dont happends so often, like in past fifa´s, thing that is great), like in real life too. All is well balanced.
Another point that makes this game so real is that players heigh and weight affects his gameplay......for example Thuram dont runs so fast as Puyol,,,,Xavi and Deco will have more control and passes success than defenders, you will notice the inertia, you will notice that players have real weight. They will go tired when the end of the macth is arriving, or when they runs so much, and exhausted Messi, that had run during 70 minutes will starts to sweat a lot, play bad, etc.....then you must to make a substitution.
So you have a lot of national teams, besides of all the teams from the 6 leagues, and special teams, like world stars, etc...that need to be unlocked.
All of this makes the gameplay near to perfection. I dont know what kind of retail version had tested the people from IGN, or what were they doing during the test,,,,but,,,they are totally outside of the real feeling of this game.
SOUND (10/10)
Perfect. Simply perfect. Crowds chants are awesome singing all the hyms, chors, etc, or reacting to an steal ball, to a goal, to a tackle, and to all the action of the game. Commentary are really great, almost, the spanish version, where 2 of the most important spanish commentators makes the game more exciting. But the thing that shock me is that between all the noise of the crowd and commentarist you can hear speaker megaphony saying "with the number 9.....Samueeeeell Etooooo!!......with the number 10....Roooooonaldinho!!", and after each name, the crowd reacts with a "ehhhhhhhh!!!!". Simply amazing, and this happends with all the started team. You can hear too by megaphony is your car is bad parked, if some children is lost.....etc....is really brillant.
EXTRAS (9/10)
There´s a lot of extras, from a great player editor, with a lot of options, and when i say a lot, i dont saying 5 or 6 kind of hairs, im saying more than 25 diferent hairs....lot of options on faces creation until you achieve the player that you want. There´s the espn feature that appears under your monitor, like in a sport magazine, with the latest news about football. You can do anything that you can imagine with your team scheme, changing players positions, if they defend more or less, if they go to this side of other, to change his back number, put a lot of gear on them, to change his boots, etc....
So, you can unlock extras as more balls, videos from the best goals from the 6 leagues, etc..etc....
Manager mode is excellent with infinte posibilites until arrive to 5 year.
And Multiplayer is great, there´s not lag, etc....
And many more things to discoverd....is a long game, plenty of options and that reflects exactly a football game. I recommend totally this game.
TOTAL score 9,3/10
If you have some question about the game, please, ask.
Take care
neovico
The Mind
Funny stuff, i'll try keep a straight face next time. But the commentary is awesome.
