Playable! Fun for a while, but then it just hits the post head on...

User Rating: 5.5 | UEFA EURO 2008: Austria-Switzerland X360
Perhaps I'm the post the game heads on to, but I simply couldn't like it that much.
Been PES fan for a while now and that might be a determinant factor in this rating appreciation. From the first look on to this game it's down climb is just incredible...
Great graphics are perhaps the saviour of the game but then the rest just falls apart in every way. New passing style with intensitymeter isn't reliable at all and basically ununderstandable. Shooting becomes a creepy trick here as it is very hard to score from distance, even with the best players available to do it with... Lower ranked countries are surprisingly good sometimes and, believe it or not, there's a problem there as we're not talking about the will or the team's mentality... Those differences are noticeable on individual players people, picture that!!! That's disastrous as I see it!
On the Euro run it is unexplained why do players lose ability through stages and games and the management window interface isn't that easy to understand at all as sometimes you organize it in a manner and then everything appears mixed up again. Terrible.
No online experience to tell but the Story Of Qualifying mode is a great add-on such as the Be a Pro playability. Those are great ideas to be developed but... Deserve a better structure to fit into!