Not a fan of either the demo or PES 13.
It looks like football, but each has problems.
FIFA comes off as heavily scripted. Okay, so Man Utd would be expected to beat Wigan for example, but the way EA has it is that the CPU does stupid stuff, perfect passes that never go anywhere but right to an attacker's feet. Or my pet peeve, the striker that runs consistently just that tiny bit faster than your fastest player and scores. Without getting tired. Or my new fave thing, the AI managing to crowd my player out constantly and leave my teammates wide open.
My virtual pro (79 overall) is 6 foot 8, he's a good passer, but without fail he'll attract 3-4 defenders, so it's all to easy to pass the ball to a wide open team mate, bang. Goal
(I've had the above on PC and PS3 through Fifa 10-12 and 13 demo btw)
Or the controls by default on the PC, I'm not sure if it's because my PS3 controller wasn't working right on my PC but I had to play with keyboard, I played everything from RTWC 98 to Fifa 05 on keys. But 12 and '13 demo are just awful. Who comes up with the layouts?
PES however...I dunno. It comes off as too frantic and suffers from Engrish at times (especially in the be a legend mode). Perhaps that's because it is a Japanese developed title, but I sat down and played '12 and '13 for a good few hours and came away feeling that PES hasn't got any better. It doesn't feel like football.
I can live with the fake team names, I can live with the spare PS3 controller on a PC, I can even live with the stepped difficulty levels (Seriously, 15-0 on beginner for a 30 minute match?! Then 4-1 on ametur, then 2-1 on normal, 1-1 on pro and 0-0 draws on the other highest ones), but what gets me is the same thing as FIFA
Scripting. I have a Be A Legend guy in '12 that I got to Man United, I had worked to get there, 89 overall, decent shooter, good passer. So the first league game rolls around, United lose 3-2 to a team that's rated worse than them in every aspect. First goal, fair play that it was a deserved penalty, but the next two were BS. Corner kick that went in from the edge of the box. Then a screamer from outside the area?