I have PES 1,2,3,4 and 6, all for PS2.
And I'm hooked on PES 1, which I bought for 50p
I find PES2 is too fast/easy, PES 3 and 4 are ruined by the terrible keeper dive animations, and on PES 6 players in smaller teams play like drunkards who have never kicked a ball, and are really really slow.
Also what annoys me in PES 6 is you can dribble past a player, leave him on his backside, and then a second later he has caught up and is holding your shirt
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I must have played well over a thousand matches on PES 1 on five star difficulty in the couple of years since I have had it
. In my last season I played a master league with Monaco, and in that I had a six game goal drought, a 4-4 draw, a 5-2 defeat at the bottom team Palestora
and in the end lost out to Bordeaux in the promotion race by one goal on goal difference
The AI is direct and able, and makes the games really interesting, whereas in the latest PES games I have played, you can let the likes of Chievo and Siena have all the chances and crosses in the world, knowing they are going to fluff them all.
They don't make football games like they used to any more