Shockingly Bad

User Rating: 5 | World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 PS3
Pro Evolution is one of the few games that feels right when using the Dual Shock controller, Konami have perfected the controls over a period of years and its that reason alone I bought this on the PS3 rather than the 360.
What a mistake.
Rather than wow the public with a masterpeice of football they have given us an abysmal product that reaches lows only previously found with Lair.
The game suffers from horrible slowdown and drops in frame rate that happen too frequently to ignore, playing a game rapidly becomes a form of torture or punishment.
When you finally manage to score, and the only reason its so hard to do is because the erratic frame rate and slowdown stops the game flowing, the goal replays are a jerky mess. The game will slow down to what feels like a snail's pace whenever more than half of the players are on screen at the same time.
There's quite significant and frequent tearing too.
It's a shambles of a game, you can reduce some of the agony by removing commentary, dropping the resolution of choosing a less impressive stadium but half of the fun of playing games like this is that you can play the big name teams, in the big name stadiums, so by trying to limit the problems you ruin the experience.
A shockingly poor game.