With the announcement being just a few days away, I hereby open the new section for PES 2013.

Here's to a huge year ahead for both Only Pro Evolutions and the PES series. Make sure you hop on and enjoy the ride!

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Well its that time of year where I get all stiff with excitement for 6 months only to have my dreams dashed upon playing the final product.

I am gonna try and stay sceptical as I only liked PES10 out of the last 5 PESs.

Let the madness commence.............................

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PES2013.......The King Is Dead....Long Live The King..........

I have enjoyed every PES so I am expected to be pleased with PES 2013. Not expecting massive improvements, but think it's still going to be a good year for Pro Evo this year.

Roll on Friday!

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At last, a PES2013 forum, took your time Mike

I can't wait for friday.

I hope we get something like the PES 2010 trailer, showing actual gameplay.



But to be perfecty honest, I don't really believe that's what we're gonna get. It sounded like it would be more of a teaser, just to get us all hyped - like the one with Messi in PES 2011.

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I was waiting for a confirmed date.

I've always had an idea, but I wanted to be sure of the date before I went ahead with the new section. I didn't want to mess people around by giving them an early date, just for the announcement to be put back by a week or two.

Still, it's finally here; roll on Friday.

What are you all expecting/hoping to see in Friday's announcement?

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PES 2010 looked so good, didn't it?

You're right though, Will. I too hope we get something more than just the Messi teaser for PES 2011. Come on Konami, please don't disappoint me.

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Agreed. Would be something unusual seeing Konami revealing key-features so soon...

when did "off the ball" controls were presented last year? May?

I actually think it was way later. Remember it as pretty close to the demos….

UPDATE: After a quick search, I can see it wasn't announced before July(!) actually...

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I'm hoping they announce that the shooting will be worked on, we should be able to put the ball where we want. I think we can take it as a given that the keepers will be 'fixed' although I'm terrified by this to be honest. I bet they 'fix' it by making the keepers stupidly good so they never make any errors. If that happens then the game will lose its soul for me and will become just as robotic as Fifa. Fingers crossed this doesn't happen.

It would also be nice if they'd announce a good edit mode and stadium builder so we (and by we I mean Daymos ) can make detailed badges instead of blocky ones because of being limited to a low number of blocks, and stadiums that can resemble what we want them to be rather than the abysmal effort put into the last version.

And for gods sake sort the music out!

I really hate manual shooting is in this year. It would be a huge feature, but I'm still doubtful over it.

As for the music, they did a survey a couple of months ago if I remember correctly. Maybe they're working hard on that for PES 2013?

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What would bring a huge smile to my face with the announcement is this:

1. Removal of Speed Merchant card.

2. Removal of Team Styles, specifically SPEED!

3. Improved passing and especially SHOOTING

4. Complete re-work of MLO in terms of proper league structure and team salary caps etc.

5. Refreshed animations and more fluidity.

Anything else is a bonus.

I really like PES 2012 but the improvements above would make PES 2013 a superb game.

Sorry to be a buzz-kill ( ), but I'm expecting it to be just a CR7 teaser trailer.



I really do hope I'm wrong though. Would love them to mention some new features. Although if they don't, I won't mind as the game's still months away anyway.

Maybe we will get some more content next week too?

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Im sure about it.The announcement trailer is going to be dull,repetitive,without any actual gameplay footage,focusing on players emotions instead of gameplay............................





.................and Im gonna love it and replay it a hundrend thousand times.

As long as we get something else soon (maybe in the next two weeks or so), I won't mind that much.

Still very excited about Friday though!

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