GARHGh I ll rant now. I am so pissed you have no idea. I just played PES 09 demo and borrowed fifa 09 from my friend.....wow. i am a very calm person..really but playing sports games just gets the competitive side in me.
FIFA 09:
finaly some decent graphics but that's about it. the "new" ball and player physics are bs and like all the other fifas the ai is deedeede and you learn a way how tot score goals and it works every time and the increased level of difficulty is = normal level pes
PES 09. That is one step learning curve. I ve played the previous versions and 09 isnt really that much better than the last version. The ai pisses me off mostly because the computer has these awesome choreographed moves where as my guys are drunken English hooligans attempting to dance the waltz; The ball bounces off a looooooooooot and in funny ways. I think its good it gives a more realistic feel to the game but please let the computer have bouncy legs too then. Pes 09 has great animated moves from scoring goals to doing tricks passing etc much much muuuuuuuch better than fifa. oh and at least it has somewhat of a tutorial and a description of controls(although when i play a game for the pc i expect the controls to be labeled in keyboard language not FUCKIN console controllers)Fifa hides the controls from you. If you played Fifa 99 and learned the controls than they pretty much stayed the same but for newbies the lack of good explanation and control clarification just makes it retarded.
Meh I love pes, but the minor bugs become huge parasitic like infestations when you play the game for a longer time. It is awesome it could have been epic but no my goaly only parries the ball in a certain way so the rebound goes always to my opponent and the computer ties x million passes together beautifully every time where as my guys often miss the intended target pass into a most deedeedee situation where its impossible to win the ball and the computer switches the control of players in def that i don't want to control in that instance. Garhhhhhhhhhhhhhhg next pes better have better graphics and a more intelligent ai. Right now I am playing MANU against Liverpool. I ve won about 6 times lost 3 x that and played draw x million times