Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS2) | 
| From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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Rating:  85 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: soccer-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: ALL IN STOCK 00077
EAN: 4012927121009
ASIN: B000Q310KK
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
PES 2008 features a brand new intelligence system, called Teamvision, that adapts and reacts to players own gameplay styles to ensure that the computer controlled opponents are always challenging and forcing the player to think and chance their style of play to avoid being out-thought by the game. It will learn counter attacks that target your weaknesses and look to exploit any repetitive tactics players use. Defenders react better to danger, closing down the ball and charging at shots and the goalkeepers will hold shots that are closer to them as well. Teammates will make more intelligent runs into space and the close control has been sharpened to ensure quick and fluid passing and speedy attacks can be built.
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 Lazy Reissue October 26, 2007
L. Deller (London, England)
55 out of 69 found this review helpful
Hands up if you love new menus!!!! Turgid "Lift Music"!!! Players names in Capital Letters!!!
Then Pro Evolution 2008 is the game for you!
Essentially Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 on the PS2 is exactly the same as Pro Evolution Soccer 6 on the PS2. The game mechanics are exactly the same, and they were pretty fantastic before, but that doesn't justify Konami slapping a glorified paint job on PES6 and charging 30 for it.
So what do you get for your ca$h:
Gone is the repetetive International Challenge (a.k.a. World Cup Qualifying), replaced by the equally turgid World Tour mode.
Rooney has freckles! But Ronaldinho, Terry and Totti (now ginger?!?) are unconvicing and there seems to have been little effort to widen coverage, with sides like AS Roma (my team, you'll be hearing more about them later)still only boasting a handful of face captured players.
More rubbish teams! That's right now when setting up Master League, instead of leaving out the likes of Kobenhavn, you can now leave out HJK Helsinki, Dinamo Zagreb and more Swedish teams than you can shake an IKEA catalogue at. A cheap attempt by Konami to boost their marketablility in other nations.
Master League now features a pointless "popularity" rating, which luckily reveals the startling news that teams and players who are better than yours are...erm...more popular. Apart from that its the same as it has been for a million years. Seriously to all you cavemen out there, Minanda is still playing behind the front two, and he's still one paced.
Have I mentioned the lift music? There's like a million tracks.
Diving! Shirtpulling! Oh, not in the PS2 version, my bad!
Kits actually look worse than before. Roma's keeper kit is bizarrely inaccurate, not only have Konami gone for the third choice kit, they have got the colour wrong.
Club badges resemble a splodge of paint and the default English kits are offensively lazy, all the kits are the same pattern in different colours. The kit editor uses the exact same patterns as before, so gone are the days when Konami sneaked in official kits by overlapping other designs.
No seriously the lift music. It's got all different genres and everything, and you can pick which ones you listen to while you change every English clubs name for the millionth year in a row. I mean if you don't have a stereo or, y'know, taste.
Different commentators, same phrases repeated over and over.
NEWSFLASH: Apart from a few Werder Bremen players PES Shop is EXACTLY the same. The same Brazil '94 goal celebration, dog heads and penguin costumes.
Take it from a PES Veteran. This game ain't worth a dime, in fact its a insult to the intelligence of consumers and a great advert for FIFA. Unless you're a massive HJK Helsinki fan that is.
Oh and btw...the lift music!!! My mind genuinly boggles at how they found so much spectacularly bad lift music.
 The best football title EVER returns!! September 17, 2007
Mr. S. L. Read (Cardiff, Wales)
41 out of 71 found this review helpful
The greatest football game of all time returns. Pro Evolution Soccer returns with it's usual blend of creative gameplay and it's 'fix it yourself' editing options!
In PES2008 you are going to get four fully licensed leagues:
Spanish La Liga
French Ligue 1
Italian Serie A
Dutch Eredivisie
In addition to that you will get an extra 34 fully licensed club teams from across the world:
Bayern Muenchen
Anderlecht
Club Brugge
Dinamo
Copenhagen
HJK Helsinki
Olympiacos
Panathinaikos
AEK Athens
Rosenborg
WisBa Krakow
Benfica
Porto
Sporting Lisbon
Spartak Moscow
Lokomotiv Moscow
Celtic
Rangers
Red Star Belgrade
AIK Solna
Hammarby
Helsingborg
Goeteborg
Be_ikta_
Fenerbahce
Galatasaray
Dynamo Kiev
Basel
Boca Juniors
River Plate
Internacional
Sao Paulo
Newcastle United
Tottenham Hotspur
The international teams remain the same as in PES6 except that Isreal replace Latvia.
The Fully liecesed international teams are:
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Croatia
Greece
Ireland
Portugal
Scotland
Turkey
Brazil
Australia
Japan
South Korea
Czech Republic
England
France
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Sweden
Argentina
This promises to be extra special with the introduction of 'Teamvision'. This should keep the AI in the game fresh and also make sure the game doesn't get stale too soon(not that it will anyway!).
Anyway, this game is gonna be awesome. Go go go, buy it!
 Pro Evo 6 vs. Pro Evo 2008 - spot the difference? October 26, 2007
L. Taylor (UK)
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
Having been a keen follower of the pro evo series ever since Pro Evo 4 I have been on edge, waiting for this game to appear on my doorstep for well over a month! I got home from work last night and there it was!! I could hardly wait to get it out of the box and into the PS2, the suspense was killing me as the game was loading!! And now, having played for a good 3 hours last night, I can honestly say that the excitement and suspense has been replaced with the bitter taste of disappointment!
Pro Evo 2008 is exactly the same as Pro Evo 6, it hardly feels like anything has been changed! I was excited to hear about the all new diving buttons, and brand new, redeveloped AI, however I find it hard to believe that any of this has been included in the PS2 version! I understand that next-gen consoles are the way forward, and maybe the PS3 version and Xbox 360 version are better and more improved, however I feel that Konami have let down their original PS2 fans by selling us an almost exact replica of Pro Evo 6. The only positives I can see are that the commentary has been improved!!! Other than that I feel let down konami, and face the expensive reality that perhaps it is time to upgrade to next-gen console....
Very Poor October 28, 2007
David Mitchell
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
Like many other posters, I am truly disappointed with this game. As usual, the Premiership teams are mostly unlicensed and so have stupid names and crap kits. This aspect is just the predictable annual farce, though and probably more to do with the Premiership being greedy or some spurious and sort-outable legal issue. In fact, that one of the things I am most prepared to forgive it is that you have to tinker so thoroughly just to avoid having to put up with team name like Man Red, North London, Teeside etc speaks volumes.
From what I gather, the PS3 version has some very serious problems, but the PS2 version I've got works fine on my old tv. Again, the fact that it is not as flawed as the first incarnation on a key next gen console should tell you soething about how shoddy this is.
What really lets it down is that apart from some ugly new menus, I can't see any meaningful advance on PES6.
The keepers are still dumb.
Slow players still outrun fast ones
Ground passes are still too slow
High passes are still random
The 'take quickly' free kick option just means you nearly always make a stupid pass
Apparently, there are fewer 'niggly' free kicks. So far this seems to only benefit the CPU as I've had players barged over, knocked off the ball, tripped etc and never get a decision. I was never bothered by niggly free kicks in PES6, because that's what football is like.
I could go on, but there are so many gripes that I'm just too bored and disappointed to list them.
Basically, Konami have just rushed out a slight mod to PES6 and seem happy to mug those for whom buying the latest PES is something to look forawrd to in October.
For the first time ever, though, it's going back. I don't need it and I'd urge anyone thinking of buying it to either rent first or just not bother if they've already got PES6.
Seabass and crew have to be taught a lesson - they've got away with murder for years, frankly if you'd gone from PES2 to this, you might be chuffed, but what on earth is the point of these annual releases if they can't fix the many things that bug players and just seem to introduce new flaws?
Shame on you Konami.
Pro Evo - Still the purists choice, no matter what people say ! November 6, 2007
Marc Gridley (Norwich, England)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
I have been playing Pro Evolution Soccer for as long as most reviewers on this site and, for the life of me, I really don't understand what all this griping is about. Admittedly, I was very disappointed by the licensing, but then us PES fans always are but the gameplay (which is surely more important??) always wins us over. As a United fan I was twice as disappointed by the removal of Old Trafford and the fact that Konami had the license for the United team/kit last year, which unfortunately has also become a victim of the licensing wars. However, you can edit until your hearts content (which you CANNOT do on the PS3 version, Mr Smug Next Generation Console Man who slated this version) or you can pay somebody a small fee to do the dirty work for you.
Anyway, the gameplay (for who really cares about the rubbish menus and the rubbish music - don't you realise you can switch the menu music off ?? Or do you not possess a mute button ??!). The gameplay is absolutely fantastic ! The match itself is faster this time around, the passing is smooth, the throughballs are twice as effective, the shooting still a million miles better than the 'hit and hope' Fifa system and the direct free kicks are much improved. The players DO react differently too, you DO get defenders lunging in at the last moment to block your shots, you DO get more tricky centre forwards running at you and you DO get more intelligent computer opponents running oh so cunningly off the ball in order to ruin your evening. Yes, the game still can have that effect on you, leaving you distraught at that last minute equaliser or punching the air as you spank one into the top corner.
If you add to this the fact that (those without mute buttons) will notice a marked improvement in the commentary which is actually reactive to the game now, at least when Jon Champion speaks anyway, the game has definitely got better. I admit that when Mark Lawrenson chips in, he does speak a load of rubbish, but pray tell me what is unrealistic about that !!
Overall, I love this game and I know if you look into your hearts, the true fans will do too. It could be improved 'off the pitch' to justify the price tag (Konami - that is directed at you), but PES 2008 is better in most aspects than it's predecessors and worth adding to your collection, despite lacking the 'cosmetic' touches.
So, if you like cosmetics, I suggest Fifa or Maybeline whilst us gritty football fans will pick the style, panache and playability of Evo every single time.
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