read this before buying - from a PES BUMBOY
I have to say putting pro evo 6 into my 360 and playing it for a few hours with my mate i was in shock, could it be that for the first time ever they've seemed to have made every aspect about the gameplay better without making anything worse??? I rang everyone I knew who cared and pronounced to the world that pro evo 6 was fantastic, I may have pointed out that it looked no better than playing pro evo 5 on a 360 or the fact that the framerate can at times be shocking which is something I've never seen on a pes game except the ps2 versions. Still it only happened on goal kicks and other moments when it didn't particulary matter so I thought I'd let that go without moaning.
Unfortunately there a was a niggling at the back of my mind, something was very wrong about the whole situation, this isn't how it's supposed to go, I'm supposed to hate the new pro evo to begin with and grow to love it, but there it is in front of me playing like i've always dreamt it should, i can now even stand and shield the ball properly, passing is faster, everything is just better and how it's supposed to be. Why then did it have £10 knocked off the price on release day, maybe konami wanted more people to play it and thought that a £50 price tag for a game is a disgrace, good on them I thought, give a slap to billy gates from me aswell.
But then I found out what Konami seemed to have failed to tell you and certainly what the knob in Game failed to point out while he went on for 20 minutes telling me how good the new one is when all I wanted to do was go home and play it, not stand there with a massive queue of people behind me while he gibbered in my face.
So here we go, two things are missing from the new one which to be honest you just automatically expect to be there and shockingly enough the fact that they arn't there actually makes this game a disgrace and a worthless purchase if you've got PES 5. NO EDIT MODE - yep no edit mode, i'm as confused as anyone about this, so basically you can't create yourself and your mates and put them in the england team anymore, quite annoying but something you could just about put up with if it wasn't for the fact that all the other stuff is missing. One of the things most people moan about pro evo is the fact that a lot of the team names are wrong, personally this never bothered me as you could just change the team names into the real ones, not now though, you'll have to play as merseyside red until next october. totally unacceptable.
NO ONLINE CO-OP - ??????????????????????????? you what!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why not? this is the final nail in the coffin for me, this is what makes you keep playing pro evo, taking on a couple of frenchies with your mate is what makes the game so good. not anymore though, also one player online is a total frustration fest aswell, it constantly tells you when you try to join a game that it no longer exists, when you refresh the server list it's still there!!!! Personally I'm not an overly patient man so after 15 attempts (yes 15!!!) I switched the 360 off. I did manage to get a game online later in the night but it still suffers from the annoying lag that plagued it on the xbox, whereas before it only used to lag in one half as the other half you would be hosting, it seems to lag in both halves now.
So to sum it up, without the key features of edit mode and co-op online this game just really isn't worth buying, basically your left with playing the master league for the millionth time which to be honest is just dull considering you've probably done it for every previous version of pro evo, and the only reason you played it one player was to hone your skills for when you played it online or against a mate, o yeah no pro evo shop either so another reason not to play the one player game.
Basically a shocking disapointment, of all the things you think could go wrong with a new version of pro evo this sneaks up and takes you from behind like michael jackson in an orphanage. You just don't expect these things not to be there and the fact they're not actually manages to make the game a complete pile of toss.
Jus to make you feel better the PS2 version has all these things and its cheaper...................................
I will say if Konami patch this up to include edit and co-op online modes this game would be the best pro evo ever irresspective of the graphics as the gameplay is so good. (lets be honest who cares about the graphics on pro evo) I can't see that happening myself so therefore there is just no point in playing this game. Anyway I'm off to japan to burn down konami HQ via Game to get my copy of pro evo 5 back.