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Truth is, that I wasn’t expecting PES 2009 too much as every year I’ve seen the same annoying bugs like the Wing-Backs drifting to the middle, lack of responsiveness of the players and more.

Konami, once again promised a better AI, better graphics, better control and other then this usual staff, they have promised the “Become a Legend” mode.

Setting up the demo

Of course, when the demo came out, I had to try it because I was still hoping for a better game. After downloading the 1GB demo and installing it, I’ve entered the settings screen of PES. There, for my surprise there was no 1280×1024 resolution. Once again Konami are doing a bad job on the technical side. Why should I with my system specs (E6600+8800GTS+2GB+17″), should be playing the game under 1024×768 resolution? beats me.

Aha, soon there was a demo tweak patch which enables more resoltions. This demo tweak patch also lets us change the match time.

Running the demo

From the few menus that are shown in the demo I can say that their looks and the background songs are are realy nice. At last Konami started taking care of their ugly and boring menus. So, +1 here.

There is only one available option in the menu, Exhibition, of course. Getting into the Exhibition menu, Konami dropped us four club teams which are Man Utd., Liverpool, Barcelona and R.Madrid, and two national teams, Italy and France. Not a bad selection for the demo.

I took Barcelona and let the computer control R.Madrid, nothing is better then a Super-Classico to check out PES 2009. Next is the control selection and then the formation screen. Nothing new here, though.

Getting in the Stadium

The match started with a lttile stadium show-off and then I found myself at center of the pitch, with a close-up on Henry and Eto. Here I’ve noticed at the graphics improvments. Player faces are remarkebly similar to ther real counterparts. Once more, Konami improved the graphics nicely, but not enough for my opionion. Don’t get me wrong, PES 2009 is good, but something is still missing out there.

Kick-off

Whistle is blown and on we go, passes feels good. The ball most of the time goes to where I wanted it to go. Players are moving and creating some pass options just like Konami claimed the would :O. The feeling of the game is realy fluid. More animations have been added to the game, unfortuney, running player animations which is in my opinion is very robotic, haven’t changed .

Crowed is chanting and the match goes on.

Players are truely more responsive to the controls. Movement changes are carried out easier then before.

The Wing-Backs bug which annoyed me from PES 4, resolved at last! This glich was the Achilles’ heel in online games and was exploited time after time by human players.

Goals are struck on both sides of the pitch. Computer plays really nice, not like human, though, but nice moves.

Here I’ve seen that the goal nets are changed, seeing the ball goes into the nets is very satisfactory, as the ball rolls in the net and as the net is stretched.

Long passes are now much better in sensitivity and accuracy terms. In previous versions of PES, long passes on the opposiotion side of the pitch was way too strong and never in the direction of movement of the player. Now it is a lot better.

Summery

In general, PES 2009 just feels more right then every other game on this series (And lets not remind this cell-phone game called FIFA ). There is more staff that feels different in this demo then PES 2008, but I realy can’t point that out.

I think that this time PES 2009 is a lot better the its predecessors. It is not perfect and lacks bugs, but it’s closer to be perfect then every other footy game out there.

Hopefully, Konami fixed their bad on-line code and let us enjoy what’s going to be a really great game against other players.

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Demo tweak patch

http://rapidshare.com/files/152352825/demoTweak2009.zip

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http://www.gamershell.com/

http://www.gamespot.com/

Rapidshare links -You can easily download those links from Rapidshare using JDownloader

http://rapidshare.com/files/152381887/PES2009_Demo.part01.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/152868781/PES2009_Demo.part11.rar