Hey guys,
thanks for the props on the preview. I havent touched Master League yet. I went through the extensive training challenges yesterday and after looking at the CPU teaching me the new tricks, I havent been able to pull half of them off. Like there's this weird move preceeding a cross where you just let the ball run for a bit and then you speed up..its difficult to explain, it's mainly just a changing pace, but I dont know how to pull it off. There seems to be some dribbles that can be only done with the Right Analogue stick (not just the roulette move) which I've managed to do randomly.
What is the double-x pass? You can definitely affect the strenght of the X-button pass as I hold the button down, the player takes an extra bit longer to let go of the pass and then he his it so the ball travels very fast. It's very cool especially to use in the midfield.
There is a a LOT of new tackling animations, both for the tackle and the consequences.
You can really body check players and they go flying, it looks very cool. We were all very impressed by those animations when we played last nite. You know how you try to catch up an forward with a defender for a tackle, then kind of bend your legs around his legs to get the ball...that move looks so awesome in WE8.
I spent about five hours updating the teams and changing the names into english. Pretty depressing now that there's double the teams. Luckily you can very easily now switch players between teams and you can immediately change the strategies and line-ups instead of having to buy that in the WE-shop. The shop has tons more stuff but I havent bought anything yet. I didnt realize just how many key playes have switched teams this summer, it'll be an interesting season. I'm really hoping PES4 will have some updated teams because as much it's part of the WE/PES expericence, changins the names is a major pain the ass due to larger amount of teams.
To be honest, I realize there's lots of new things under the hood but I havent been able to pull them off. I tried to pull of Ronaldo's special cross but to no avail, I think it just randomly happens instead you being able to pull it off consistently.
I've now played the game for two days and some mates have tried who are hardcore as I am. All of us think this is the best game in the series so far, nothing feels a tad wrong like it did in WE7I for example. It all feels right. Though I'm sure Fowler will find something to hate in this game too.
I'm still trying to generate a list of all the teams, but it's a bit time-consuming
You CAN change non-licensed team names, so you can tell which teams are which in the team selection. however licensed teams (Spanis, Italian and Dutch) names cannot be changed and they are in Japanese, so I dont half of the dutch teams or the italians in there since all the players names are in Japanese. The names are correct on the backs of the players but as you know it's a slow process to go through all of them.
Another thing..the Dutch players in their club teams look amazing. Too bad Cocu isnt in the national team anymore as he looks amazingly lifelike. He IS in the national team in WE8, but looks wrong..like all the dutch players. Now, I think you CAN put the club team dutch players into the national team...I think. So maybe this way one can easily get the correct player faces into the team...I dabbled with the face building option but man,it's much more complex than before and it seems there's no ready 150 face models, rather you gotta build them up...which makes it pretty damn difficult.
There's smart stuff in the menus, like when you switch players from a team to another, the cursor stays where you leave it, so when you change multiple players into the same team, it's faster. Also you can from the start change national team players and this is well done too..you go the national team you want and click, and you get a full list of all the selected nations players, so it's easy to pick the players you want.
I looked at the jersey editor and it looks exactly like it did in WE7I, ie strange. I havent messed around with it, since the club teams I use have the correct jerseys. Well not the english but anyways.
The rosters are a bit deeper! nowhere near FIFA's but atleast there's more reserve players, so Real has Jurado, Juanfran, Meijia (well he was in the A-team last season to be honest) and ManU has guys like Chris Eagles and some others I now forget.
There's a boatload of stadiums and it pisses me off I dont know half of them. I think they are presented in the same order as in WE7I so I'm gonna load that game up and write the names down since I have them in English there. The Bernabeu isnt in WE8 sadly, but Nou Camp looks Exactly like it does in real-life...the stadiums really look quite a bit better mainly thanks to better lighting and color palette than before.
It's impossible for me to go through all the stats...BUT it does seem that Konami has taken a step into more realistic stats as quite a few of the teams I tried had most of their guys over 60 per skill, which to me is realistic. You are not gonna find a completely crap player in a big team. I was glad to notice my home country Finland had some improved stats for players like Forssel and they even had Eremenko Jr in there with okayish stats. Guys like Edu, Vieira and Gerrard finally have realistic stats. Also guys like Beckham have more realistic stats as he's slower thanbefore but he's improved in other areas.
I cannot believe I did this, but i just stopped,loaded the game up and took a bunch of shots of various players (Fowler, Gerrard just for you buddy). Doh!
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