Last year there was a significant event for all lovers of virtual football. The first time in a long history of confrontation series Pro Evolution Soccer for all items furnished FIFA. Product rating Konami topped the British best-selling games for all platforms in late October and did not leave the top ten right up to June. Largely determined the popularity of the transition to a new graphics engine. However, it is not so important. The main thing is that the Japanese developers were able to break the longstanding hegemony of the North American competitors. Do they maintain a leading position at this time?
Plus two After watching the stylish opening video clip appears on the screen the main menu. The first draws attention to an extensive list of single player game. By familiar from previous episodes Exhibition, Master League, League-Cup and Training added two new items: UEFA Champions League and Become a Legend.
Unfortunately, the Champions League has turned some curtailed. None of the three qualifying stages, and in the group stage by default are only 13 clubs (including St. Petersburg and Zenit), and 19 teams, missing the computer randomly dials in different leagues. Of course, teams do not correspond to reality. By the will of a blind lottery, in the main draw of the tournament easily fall and Moscow Spartak and Dynamo Kyiv. The developers forgot about Cyprus "Anorthosis", Danish "Aalborg" and Belarusian BATE, but it is not clear for what services included in the list of Czech Slavia, a Belgian "Standard", the Dutch Twente and Croatian Dinamo. And yet the Japanese thoroughly screwed up the calendar event. In general, all mixed up in a house Oblonskys.
Become a Legend is clearly reminiscent of Be a Pro - Co-op Season of FIFA 08. In this mode, proposed to go a long way from an unknown young boy to superstar. A powerful editor allows you to create any player: starting from a clone or a young Pele Zinedine Zidane and ending with an exact copy of a neighbor on the stairwell. Wealth of available tools is amazing: here you and lots of options to change the appearance (you can even use your photo to create a texture person), and a large number of prefabricated developers behaviors in certain standard situations. For example, a character can celebrate a goal scored already 71 way.
 | |  | A dangerous free-kick at the gates of the Spanish national team. The players in the wall covered their hands in unison most expensive | | Previously, all with a goal scored by Roman Pavlyuchenko congratulated the warm-up on the treadmill replacement players |
Oshibochka out Remains a major disaster series remains a modest set of licenses from the various football associations.Like a year ago, the game features English, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch championships. By tradition, the vast majority of clubs with Albion appear under fictitious names. Thus, the "Gunners" Fabregas, Nasri, Van Persie and Adebayor played for North London, and the "aristocrats" Cech, Terry, Lampard and Drogba - in London FC. Fully licensed only two teams: Manchester United and Liverpool.
Unlike last episode of the developers were not good from all the participants of Spanish "Examples". With Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Villarreal, Espanyol, Deportivo, Atletico Madrid and Mallorca's all right, but other teams are using fictitious names and logos. More than three dozen European clubs are collected in the so-called League-A. Among others, it came from Moscow Spartak St. Petersburg and Zenit.
The authors of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 to miss a lot of transfers of famous footballers. So, as part of Milan is Mathieu Flamini and Ronaldinho novices, but not Shevchenko. Berbatov has not joined Manchester United, Corluka does not play for Tottenham, "but for Manchester City. You can lead a dozen more such examples. Not everything in order and with the compositions of the two Russian clubs. Employees Konami proshlyapili buy Danny and Pyuigrene, left in "Spartacus" Pavlyuchenko, as well as disgraced Titov and Kalinichenko, in addition to this forgotten Saenko.
 | |  | Age defensive line of AC Milan could not keep up with the bright Dutch midfielder Arjen Robbenom | | Despite all efforts, the goalkeeper was unable to pull the ball from the upper corner |
Men's wrestling The developers pulled the animation movements of players and made some changes to the gameplay. Upgraded AI and physical model of mixed feelings. On the one hand, and now the players are trying to take a good position on the field more often goes to a power struggle and do not hesitate to cover the ball housing. On the other - a rival does not impose a control on the flanks. Your winger calmly run along the edge of the field and make targeted sheds on the heads of tall forwards.
And still too high percentage of funny animals. One thing is when the goalkeeper after a powerful long-range strike unsuccessfully fights off the ball into his own net once in a season (or, in extreme cases, every 15-20 games), but when he does like almost every third match, this is the pathology .
Alas, some old problems have remained in their original locations. The judge did not learn to appoint a delayed penalty, and to distinguish passive from active offside. When a corner the goalkeeper like a hut on chicken legs, turning to the crossbar before, but the good fellows - backwards. While all are more or less decent children's sports schools coaches goalies say to his disciples: "Always stand facing the field."
Test of copper pipes Very difficult to get to the top, but even harder to stay there. A bet on two new regime did not pay off. In the process of creating the game developers have made too many minor errors. They are like ink blots on the canvas of the painter famous: the artist's intent seems to be not distort, but the general impression spoil fairly.
Unlike last year, in the current confrontation between Konami and EA Canada has no clear favorite. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 is strong in some components, FIFA 09 - in others, but in general between the football game you can put an equal sign. While Konami Digital Entertainment marking time, EA Canada took a few steps forward and narrowed the gap to a minimum. So this season the Japanese are unlikely to burn itself into an asset.
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