Does anyone else play Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 online on PS3? You do?/don't? Thats great!/retarded!

Though if you started playing the game online on day 1 i would'nt of blamed you for not trying it again. After playing a fair bit of the master league I decided to venture online and use my newly gained skillz to kick some ass. All was fine, I won my first couple games and all seemed well untill my 3rd game which i lost. Now i can accept losing to a better player, maybe even to a cheat if i was still having fun, but to lose becuase my defenders were chasing a ball which suddenly teleports to the feet of an oppostion player whose now 1 on 1 with my goalkeeper seems abit much.

The lag got worse. I got to the point where at virtually every other kick off the opposistion players would teleport across the screen like demented nightcrawlers. My players would move a couple of steps with the ball berfore having it whisked away and appear down field where my defenders and goalie would go in the complete opposite direction to the where their players were.

Annoying...




Since then there have abeen a few improvments and games like these are now very rare (though lag "blips" are still rather common)

Also in fairness it does have a bar showing the signal strength between you and your opponent before you play them, the only thing is if you do come up against a player with a really bad connection you either have to play him, or reset the console to get back to the main screen,in PES6 there was an option to not play the player you were picked against, why remove it?

Yet i still play it, even with all its problems and the players who constantly choose barca,inter or brazil (Using Adriano is virtually cheating!) simply becuase its the best "soccer" (eeeww i feel dirty, its football!) game out there.

And

Its comming to the Wii!







Now its hard enough controlling the players when you have umpteen buttons on the controller, and to make up for the Wii's severly low button count Konami have completely revamped the controls.

- From play.com

"Using the Wii Remote, players simply point at the screen and direct the man with the ball as to where they want him to run by clicking in the open space. However, it's what happens with your teammates that will prove to be the defining moment of this latest PES. Users will be able to click on other members of their side and tell them where to run, to perform one-two passes or make them create space by dragging away defenders.

It will be possible to manipulate as many players as you can quickly get control of to make set pieces become a vital part of the attacking play. Make forwards run across goal, defenders will spin and attack the back post while the towering striker makes a dart for the near post - all of which is controlled by you.

The game will automatically detect the type of pass you want to make depending on the distance the player you want to pass to is standing. If you point for a pass to a player on the other side of the pitch, the game will loop a high ball over. Likewise, if you chip a ball into space, you can then grab the nearest player and move him towards it.

New gameplay modes have been added, including the Champions Road option. Players get the opportunity to train sub standard team and then play off against other teams online. Defeating these CPU teams enables you to take some of their players and strengthen your team on the road to glory"

It definately sounds interesting, but I cant help but feel the point and click aspect will slow things down and make every less intuitive, but we shall see...