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aceyo's Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PC)
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| [January 12, 2007 07:22:31 PM]
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Game 2: Semi-Final cup match vs. Liverpool
The atmosphere of the cup match is much more exciting than that of a regular season match. The stadium is now full of fans, and you also get bird eye view shots of your stadium at night which look rather nice. The entrance scenario is also much longer and detailed. TV crews are on the pitch adding to the authenticity, and sometimes you can even see the players chanting their national anthems. However, since it is a special match, the AI play much harder than that of a normal season match.
1': The AI is already showing its coded anxiousness to win the match by chasing my players with the ball at full speed, something you don't see too often in a normal season match. Furthermore, the AI is positioning itself in ways that intercept your passes at a greater success rate than that of a normal game. This not only leads to the difficulty of the game, but it also adds a new frustration factor, which sometimes can get you yelling at the monitor in my case. So not only do I have to pass more because I am being chased around by mad AI soccer players, they get intercepted a lot more.
17': The AI's star player began a nice run through my midfield and approached my last defender. As the crowd began booing and hissing, I felt I shouldn't let my fans down, and attempted a last ditch tackling effort to steal the ball with my last defender. I mustered up my bravery and approached his player with caution, waiting for the perfect moment to hit the tackle button. When I saw small my window of opportunity open up, thanks to my great reaction speed from years of gaming I made an excellent sliding tackle to steal the ball and felt totally relieved and awesome.
22': The AI's star player was once again on a mad run through my defense, even literally shoving some of them out of the way. You only experience this type of AI behavior in important matches, but it is really poor that you have try and defend against this type of advantage the computer has when you cannot do it yourself. I suppose its easier to design the game to be more difficult and give the AI certain advantages rather than giving them better attacking play. Anyway, I ended up being lucky as my goal keeper got in the way of his shot and the ball went wide.
24': After the goal kick and a few passes, I saw my first opening in the AI's defense and sent a pass up the field. In frustration from previous events in the game, I started unnecessarily smashing the sprint button which lead to an easy tackle for the AI to steal the ball back.
40': The AI's star player received a lofted through ball, and once again began plowing through my defense. In frustration and in fear of being scored on, I maliciously tackled him from behind and received a yellow card.
2nd Half:
42': Right at the beginning of the 2nd half, I had an excellent scoring opportunity as I had 2 of my forwards against only 1 of his defenders. It was my chance to try and taking an early lead in this game. The tension in my mind was building up as I had precious seconds to decide my plan of attack. Do I try to dodge him and take on the goalkeeper myself, or do I risk an intercepted pass to my other forward? In the end, my decision was to pass to my other forward, which was successful, and the anxious adrenaline buildup once again began flowing through my body. The defender was left isolated, and I was in a perfect 1 on 1 situation with the AI's goal keeper. I hit the shot button, and to my horror he shot it way wide.
47': After that nasty reality that I was still even with this team, while dribbling around with one of my midfielders I noticed that I wasn't being covered by my opponents defense. At this moment, I realized this was an excellent opportunity for a long range effort on goal. I sprinted up, smashed the shoot button and it was parried into a corner kick by the AI's keeper. Here was a real chance for me to put it in the goal. I then powered up my corner kick and directed it towards my opponents goal. The pass was blocked out by a defender.
51': I had yet another great attempt on goal moments later after a few passes between my fowards called in soccer a 1-2 sequence. My forward was speeding past the AI's defense, and only had the goal keeper between him and the net. It was another nail biting situation for me. Do I just attempt a direct shot on goal, or do I risk being tackled attempting the shot fake? I opted for option 2, and was disgusted when the AI's keeper didn't fall for it and stole the ball from my foot.
78': After a few more malicious tackles on the AI's star player, to my surprise I actually injured him and put him on a stretcher. Although it felt kind of dirty playing this way, I justified my feelings by just thinking of some of the things the AI was doing with this player. Take that computer!
90': At this point, a draw was really inevitable, and I was just passing the ball around keeping it away from the AI. I passed it to one of my midfielders, which again I noticed was uncovered. I figured, what the hell, even though I know this is going to miss why not go for it anyway. I sprinted up, smashed the shoot button, and actually watched the ball fly towards the AI's net. This was a few precious seconds to me, as it felt like I was watching the game in slow motion. As the ball got even closer and closer, I began realizing that it might score, and with background ambiance of the crowd cheering and the commentator screaming, I unconsciously began flailing my arms in the air in real life. In a mad flurry of excitement and adrenaline, I realized the ball was tucked into the top right corner and the commentator yelled "what a goal!"
It was a moment in gaming history to remember, I had robbed the AI of a game that should have been a draw. I cannot describe being any more happy playing a video game than I was at that very moment.
1-0 win for Black Hawks FC.
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| [January 12, 2007 06:42:53 PM]
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Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is a fairly realistic simulation to what a soccer game actually is. Although the commentary, graphics, and audio in general are rather poor, it does not infringe on some of the great previous gameplay experiences I've had with this game. I am currently playing one of the modes this game has to offer, which is called Master League. Master League is a mode in which I can create or choose an existing club team and basically become their manager. I can choose which formation to play, sign and trade players, and even change what their uniform looks like (if the team is not officially licensed that is). As you win games, your club gains ranking, which allows you to purchase better players. I started the mode on the highest difficulty the game has to offer (Top Player) with a custom team named Black Hawks. Since I am already a bit into an English Premier League division 1 season, I will start with the current game I am on.
Game 1: Black Hawks vs. Newcastle United
The game begins by showing the crowd going crazy, tossing confetti onto the pitch(the playing field), waving flags, cheering, etc. Then, you see both participating teams march onto the pitch and line up with the referees just like in real life. These two moments in the beginning really offer you an authentic simulation of what really happens at the beginning of a real soccer game. Then sometimes it randomly introduces your star players, offering statistics and their age just like on TV during a real life soccer match. Once the kick off takes place, the games runs very fluidly with no slowdown on my system, which contributes to a great gameplay experience. A real soccer match consists of two 45 minute halves, and how I describe what happens in the blog I will use the corresponding minute of when it happened in my game.
5': After dribbling the ball around and making a few passes around the pitch, I saw my first opening in Newcastle's defense and attempted to play a through ball to one of my forwards which was intercepted by the AI's defender. This leads me to one of the major frustrating quirks about this game, is the passing system is sometimes highly inaccurate and sometimes the player will even pass it in a direction in which I am holding on the controller.
16': The AI team played a rather good lofted through ball over my defense, and one of their forwards began making a run to my goal. The atmosphere at this moment from the crowd was particularly great, since the away team was advancing towards the home team's goal. Because of that, the crowd was making a noticeably loud booing and hissing noise. The commentator also announced "it has to be a goal!" which helped my current feeling of dread feel even that much more dreadful. To my angst, I brought out my goal keeper as a last resort to keep the ball out of my net. The AI forward kicked the ball towards my net, which was miraculously saved by my goal keeper with a superman dive. After that nail biting moment, I let out a huge sigh of relief. I then safely cleared it out of my goal box when the corner kick took place.
29': After a few passes going back and forth across the pitch, one of my midfielders intercepted the ball, which enabled me to play a great ball to one of my forwards. As my forward advanced towards the AI's goal, the crowd roared with approval which helped attribute to the oncoming adrenaline rush. It was a chance for my team to shine and perhaps put away their opponents. However, to my horror, I waited too long to shoot the ball and the oncoming AI goal keeper slid in and perfectly tackled my forward. My perfect setup had gone to waste which left me feeling disappointed in myself.
2nd Half:
59': The computer began a relentless onslaught on my goal. It all began with another "sweet" (the computer is rather annoying with this, due to their perfect ability to always perform this type of pass when it is capable of doing it) lofted through ball from the computer, which lead to multiple attempts on my own goal. To my relief though, I was able to keep the ball out of the net by throwing my defenders in the way of oncoming goal attempts.
76': After some previously failed goal attempts by me, I was already disappointed and rather sad that it looked like this game was going to be a draw. After knocking the ball around, I finally saw an opening to pass to one of my forwards. Luckily for me, the pass penetrated the AI's defense and found my favorite forward's boot perfectly. As I mashed the sprint button in a mad dash towards the AI's goal, I performed a trick which has a rather fairly dicey success rate, the shot fake, which happened to work in this instance and send the AI's keeper diving the wrong way. This left my forward with an open net and I smashed it right in. The excitement from my success left me doing a mad fist pump flurry while screaming "EAT IT NEWCASTLE!"
This goal lead me to a 1-0 victory, and a very overall satisfying gameplay experience.
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aceyo's Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PC)
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GameLog started on: Friday 12 January, 2007
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