It seems that yesterday’s patch for the Playstation 3 version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 is not quite the all encompassing fix that many fans were expecting.

Whilst the framerate problems that plagued certain stadiums in the offline modes are now greatly improved, it seems that it has come at some cost. Rather than actually put some thought into programming a solution to the slowdown, Konami appear to have just reduced the texture quality, so although the game now runs better, it also looks a lot more ugly than it did previously.

Online, the game is still the same lag-fest that it was previously, with a message still displayed when entering the online portion confirming that this is still being worked on.

The changes are certainly not what fans of the game were hoping for, but at least it is now possible to play a penalty shootout in normal speed, rather than the framerate chugging slow-motion of before.

Hopefully, Konami can get the online issues sorted pronto and come up with a less crude way of maintaining the framerate in time for the next patch. On current form however, this does not seem particularly likely.