Originally posted by curved
I have WE6 and I have heard that J-League WE6 improves on it greatly. So if the gameplay is based on the J-League version we can all expect a sweet game to play when its out!
I can confirm that.
After a few days of WE6JL, these are some observations I've made, that will most probably be in PES2 as well:
- If you play at home and you're a reasonably good homeside, your opponents will often, depending on how strong they are, put loads of men on their own half, trying to defend the best they can. I've had a few of these games where you just put on a massive pressure, but due to good defending you sometimes see yourself draw 0-0 or losing 1-0 to a counter-attack. If you do break the deadlock however, the opponent has got to attack, and becomes a lot more vulnerable to your attacks.
- As you mentioned, scoring the first goal can be vital. If you add a second and a third goal, most of the Japanese sides will totally collapse and you will totally own the game, this does not seem to be the case with the European sides however, due to their strength, experience and morale.
- Playing an all-English game (Man UTD vs Arsenal) you can see the pace of the game being extremely high if you compare for instance an all italian game (AC Milan vs Inter) where you will find yourself trying to find your way through the defense by patient attacking. This is a lovely 'detail' in the game, that really increases the sense of reality.
And all the animations of course, massive improvement. The movement in general is heaps better, and as this Pete guy said, the individual skill level is brilliant, you can really feel it when you have the ball with Zidane or when you're shooting with Carlos. Everything is set for PES2 to be a total blast.
