I share my thoughts having just spent an hour playing the new Pro Evolution demo on PC.

Having played the past few Fifas and Pro Evolutions, I’m afraid to say this doesn’t move the game on much from PES 2008.

Player movement

The player movement still feels very wooden and ‘staged’ in an ‘arcadey’ sort of way.  The player feel very ‘fixed’ in the directions you can move them, not the organic feel I’m used to, of Fifa 09-10.  Then there is still the usual quirk of players being ‘rooted’ to the spot for no reason when you make a long pass along the ground.  This demo of Pro Evolution 2010 also has some strange wooden ‘stuttery’ animations when going from a jog to a sprint, with the sprint animation not quite kicking-in when it should.

Graphics / Presentation

The graphics are not much (if any) of an improvement over the previous few versions of the game, on this PC demo of the game.  The settings (which can only be found by separately launching C:\Program Files (x86)\KONAMI\Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 DEMO\settings.exe only contact resolutions / aspect-ratio settings, and not the usually plethora of filtering / quality tweaks.

The menus are great, however, very quick and responsive compared to Fifa’s frustratingly slow system.

Download link:

http://dl.pes2011.konamionline.com/pes2011/package/PES2011_Demo.exe

stealthy.

By using the latest in stealth techniques and some outdated technology we were able to get our hands on with the recently released Splinter Cell conviction demo. What follows is the mission debrief of our recent sneak-em-up playtime.

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