PES 2009 Pro-Evolution Soccer

by Konami

Product Features

• Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for PlayStation 2 is the latest update to the award-winning soccer series, with new additions, smarter AI, and better graphics
• Exclusive rights to the UEFA Champions League allows you to play as and against your favorite players and teams
• Television-style presentation delivers dramatic camera angles on replays, videos, and banner ads
• Become a Legend mode lets you create a player from scratch and focus on the individual player rather than a team
• Adjustments for friction, air resistance, backspin, and more results in dramatically improved ball movement

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001DTYRAG
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 11, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,487 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #8 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Soccer
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.com Product Description

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for PlayStation 2 by Konami is the latest update to the award-winning soccer series, with new additions, smarter AI, and better graphics for a more realistic game than ever before. With exclusive rights to the UEFA Champions League, this game will let you play as and against your favorite UEFA players and teams.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 has an exclusive UEFA Champions League license. View larger.

Become a Legend mode lets you create a player from scratch. View larger.

Play on your favorite UEFA club fields. View larger.

Friction, air resistance, backspin, and more make for realistic ball movement. View larger.

Exclusive UEFA Champions League License
New to the Pro Evolution Soccer series is an exclusive UEFA Champions League license. The UEFA Champions League is Europe's greatest club competition, and the license means the game will have all the elements and attributes of the Champion League Competition. The Ligue 1 Orange and Eredivisie are both fully licensed, and the England League (Premier League), Italian League (Serie A) and Spanish League (La Liga) are partially licensed. Manchester United and Liverpool are the licensed English clubs in Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.

The UEFA Champions League mode is given a new television-style presentation, where you get dramatic camera angles on replays, videos, and banner ads. Along with the official team names, upgraded graphics, and more life-like player movements, others watching you play might mistake the video game for an actual game on TV.

Become a Legend with New gameplay Mode
The new Become a Legend mode lets you create a player from scratch and focus on the individual player rather than a team. The game lets you customize the player down to the smallest detail, including his free kick run-up and celebration routine. If you use a supported camera, you can even put your face on the player and create team emblems. After you've created your character, the more you practice and play, the more he improves.

After you have a legend you're satisfied with, you can export him to an online legends game with four other players, where you team up and play against computer teams.

Realistic Ball Movement
Balls now move around more realistically thanks to adjustments for friction, air resistance, backspin, and more. This allows for new strategies and techniques such as lifting balls over defenders legs and doing tee shots. Improvements have also been made in passing, and the reactions of your teammates. The upshot is a game that looks and plays more like real life.

Play With and Against Friends Online
In addition to the Legend online mode, you can also challenge your friend to a 1-on-1 match. If your friends aren't online, there is also a quickmatch option that pairs you to a random online player.

With its exclusive UEFA Champions League license and updated ball movement and graphics, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 will have soccer fans cheering.

Product Description

New Look, New Content¿ Same Passion! Pro Evolution Soccer is back for 2009! The terms ¿PES¿ and ¿Winning Eleven¿ have always been synonymous with realism and superior gameplay, but this year PES will further narrow the gap between the game, and the real thing! New stadiums, player motions and gameplay modes will bolster a game already focused on providing the most exciting soccer experience next to actually being on the field.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More fun, but less realistic, than FIFA, January 6, 2009

By 

team_sheepshead (NYC) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pro Evolution Soccer 09 (Video Game)

First, let me say I'm not an expert gamer. I love football (soccer), so I play football on PlayStation when it's too cold to play outdoors. I purchased PES 2009 last week after playing FIFA 2006 as my primary game for a long time. I like PES 2009 much better. Why?

PES is simply more fun. I found FIFA 2006 to be frustratingly difficult to master. If you are some 14-year-old kid with no life who has time to waste mastering FIFA, go for it. But I'm an adult with other interests, so I never really got the hang of it. Even using the best teams in the world (like Barca), I had a hard time beating the worst teams (Kaizer Chiefs). I would go four and five games on the trot without scoring. In FIFA, the computer players come out of nowhere to make tackles and intercept passes. Dribbling in FIFA is very hard, as even the worst computer defenders are as fast as your best strikers.

But PES 2009 makes it easier because it has five skill settings, from beginner to expert. Beginner is really easy, so you can use it to perfect your skills. PES 2009 also has built-in training sessions where you can master tricks like kick feints.

PES is not quite so realistic as FIFA. First, FIFA has licenses to almost every club on the planet, so the club names are all there. But so what? Who really cares to be a Spanish second division team? PES has all the players from all the important leagues and clubs: England, Spain, Italy, Holland, France. The biggest missing link: no teams names for English Premier League sides. But all the players are available, so all you have to do is change the club names and save them.

PES game play is not quite as smooth as FIFA's. FIFA players run more realistically and their tricks seem more real. But I soon got used to the chicken-run style of PES players.

If you are looking for complete realism--including a frustrating lesson in how hard it is to really score a goal in top-flight football--go with FIFA. But if you want to sit down and immediately start having fun, go with PES 2009.

5.0 out of 5 stars Just a great game, November 3, 2009

By 

Mario (Usa) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pro Evolution Soccer 09 (Video Game)

I've been playing soccer games fpr a while On and off. First soccer game i played was The fifa game and didn't like it at all.everything was just linear no movement or simple touches to the game. That was a few years back and since then i been playing winning eleven/pes and just love it. It get more fun playing winning elevn/pes then fifa.. Every year or so i buy a new game and just go to town with it. I would definetly recomend it to anybody who likes futbol games and like to have some fun while playing it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game -- not many improvements over previous versions, September 5, 2009

By 

Nessander - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pro Evolution Soccer 09 (Video Game)

I think this is a great game. It's pretty easy to learn how to play it, and you can play any team with all the players from various top leagues. My only complaint would be that the game has not been significantly updated from previous versions (I also have PES 2007). It is basically the same, and I was kind of expecting the level of graphics and gameplay to be significantly better after two years.

In addition to playing individual games or exhibition matches, you also have the Master League option, whereby you lead a team from the Division Two up to the first division of a particular league, engage in transfers, see players develop, etc. This is a lot of fun. There is also a "Become a Legend" feature, whereby you apparently play a single footballer as he develops over his career (haven't done this much yet).

I really get a feel for being the manager of a team in the "Master League" option -- buying and selling players, etc. My one complaint here would be that the transfer window seems particularly difficult to do deals in. Not sure why they have made it so hard -- even on "Normal" setting.

All in all a great game, but I hope it will be improved in future versions.

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