5/1/2023 0 Comments Real football 2012 konami![]() ![]() ![]() Speed down the wings and heading ability is of the essence, so a nippy winger like Theo Walcott combined with an alehouse striker such as Andy Carroll can reap dividends. While it’s harder to pull off the through ball, play does often get pushed wide, and a whipped cross-in is frequently successful, even if it does sometime feel like the ‘wrong’ player scored. Shielding the ball while team-mates find space is commonplace, and you can also manually set a player off on a run using the right stick, something that in practice is a bit like patting your head while stroking your stomach. It may still be a little rough around the edges, and - barring the odd well - timed/lucky slide tackle - defending is largely a case of holding down one or two buttons. Which, to be honest, is all you really want from a football game. It is, of course, a different story when you do actually hit the net, and while it’s not quite knee-slide-into-the-kitchen territory, there is definitely a sense of joypad-in-the-air euphoria. Sometimes, though, it’ll all end in a trademark goalmouth scramble as you turn the air blue at your striker’s inability to hit the target from a yard. And the keepers also have a tendency to palm it into the net for you. It’s worth a pop, however, as the ball does tend to fall loose in the area, leading to the odd own goal. You will of course eventually have to get a shot away, and this is usually possible, even if it is a speculative punt from outside the area. Players seem to be more alive to the situation, and it’s easy to play attractive possession football as there is generally always a pass available. The big thing that Konami has been banging on about this year is the improved AI, and we do think it has changed for the better. But there has mainly just been us, PES, a baby monitor, and a packet of Doritos, pushing through the nightshift: midnight to six. ![]() There has also been a lot of throw-ins and some questionable refereeing decisions. There has been joy, there has been despair, there have been goals, and there have been misses. But this year it really is different, to the extent that we have probably played more of the 2012 game in a week than we have the previous three or four iterations in total. "Come back, I can change, this year it’ll be different," cried PES, its hollow words falling on increasingly deaf ears. However, following a series of mediocre PES outings, blamed on the hardware transition, a hugely improved FIFA surged ahead to the extent that it became more a case of Coke versus Dandelion & Burdock. This is gaming’s equivalent of Coke versus Pepsi war, for a number of years PES had the upper hand over the commercially successful but creatively sterile FIFA.
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