A few annoying glitches that I have found but overall brilliant!
Stadiums are superb almost breathtaking. finally refs and linesmen are visual and gives a nice realistic effect to it all.
Being a keen supporter of the fifa 08 be a pro online and euro 2008 captain your country features I've played loads on the Be a pro campaign. I love the fact at the start you get into a few reserve games and the occasional first team match although the picking of the match should be done on stars as i started against chelsea and was pretty much none existant as I was completely overrun.
I feel that this is a huge stepping ground but can improve it alot. the AI is glitchy in places but hopefully a patch may come out that will sort these problems out. for example.... I play as wilkshire for arsenal.... I win games with hard work etc so its not on a easy level...but ade and RVP just cannot score one on ones to save their lifes. yet they seem to be perfectly capable lvl 86 and 87 i believe...this isnt right. I know adebayour misses chances but not every single one.
another glitch was I crossed the ball in...it hit the defence and bounced to the keeper...fair enough...the keeper then lets the ball run through his legs runs back to pick it up and in doing so kicks it into the net. happened 2 or 3 times now.
and the passing of the team is annoying... one minute they will bounce it around you like you wasnt there. next they will pass it and the player stops.....then starts running again once the ball has bounced off him...not very fluent.
but these mayb just be within 'be a pro' as i havent seen any issues with this when playing a normal game.
A nice addition would of been the same they did in madden 08 for be a pro. where you customise your player and go to the 'draft' and you build your player up over certain tests..then depending on how you do you get a other from a club of a certain rep. then you build yourself up...but fingers crossed taht comes at a later date.
another addition that would be good to see is tatic changes to your player. for reserve game at least I start on the wing get moved into the center and then upfront...but not one thing tells me this apart from when I start getting a -postion cause im in the wrong place. Fustrating.
This is a huge stepping stone and for me being a PES player up until last month when i brought fifa 08 im truely speechless about the greatness of this game.
I will buy PES like normal but it has a long way to make up ground with this.