PES 2009 Pro-Evolution Soccer

by Konami

Product Features

• Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for PSP 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: B001DTYRGU
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 11, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,521 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > Sony PSP > Sports > Soccer

Product Description

Platform: Sony PSP

Amazon.com Product Description

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 for PlayStation Portable 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.

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

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Konami, I want my money back!, December 8, 2008

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Gino Litvak "FCCO casual" (BKLYN. NYC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Second season in a row Konami is keep selling us same old product. I'm usually playing Inter (Calcio) here is what I saw in 09 same player movement, same crowd, crowd noise, singing...basically it's an exact copy of 08/07 with different opening. You really have got to have balls to put last year product in a new shrink wrap and sell it to the world as a new product.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars PES 2009, March 16, 2009

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Leonardo Motta (Hanover, NH US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Most of reviews so far seem to be focusing on the comparison of this version with older PES versions. I think it is necessary to point out some other things relevant to whoever is thinking about getting a copy of this game.

First of all, the game have known bugs, despite the fact it is a retail version. One of the bugs is the fact that sometimes, randomly, substitutions you've made during the game are undone but the number of substitutions you can make is not reset so that basically the players you removed (say because they were tired) are back in the game and there is nothing you can do. You may want to check a list of known bugs of this game before buying it. This clearly shows the low quality of testing this game had, since this could have been spotted after someone had played it a couple of times.

Secondly, the game atmosphere could be much better. In fact the older SNES version of this game was more enjoyable: the crowd was more agitated and when you scored you would get a huge "GOAL" text with the narrator screaming and sometimes a nice picture of the players celebrating. In PES 2009 all you get is a dull "goal" remark from the narrator; no life in it. Moreover, there is no narration except for this remark. The developers decided to include a lot of songs for the menus but did not care much about the game atmosphere itself.

Thirdly, the progression of difficulty was badly planned. Unfortunately right now I either win Argentina 0x8 with Brazil in the Beginner mode or I will lose even for Honduras in the next difficulty mode ("Regular"). I understand that I'm missing something about the game strategy, but this is no excuse for the developers to have skipped test the game beforehand with several people to check whether or not the difficulty level was rightly pitched. So unfortunately is either too easy or too hard. There is no real practice/training mode in the game, so you cannot learn by yourself or by a tutorial what exactly you may be missing (although you can still seek friends and the Internet). I also have the impression that in higher difficulty modes there is an artificial "forget about the stats" mechanism so that the game can become difficult. I say that because I've made simple tests: despite the fact that I had a player with top stats it could be easily outrun by a player of another team that was supposed to have very low stats.

Overall I think that although the graphics are what you would expect for PSP platform these days, the gameplay is not that fun compared to its older (SNES) version. The FIFA game have a history of not being as fun to play as PES, but this modern PES version is so dull that maybe the FIFA game had actually succeeded in being more enjoyable.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Same old, same old.., November 16, 2008

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Ozgur Ustundag (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

I have been a fan of PES games on PSP since 2007 version. I was somewhat happy with that version, the gameplay was fun and felt like soccer. Then I thought 2008 version would be even better. And I was disappointed by that version cause it really felt like PES 2007 and a half.
Well, 2009 version, as many have guessed, is unfortunatelly still the same game from 2007 in terms of graphics, lack of commentary and stadium models. Don't get me wrong the gameplay is still fun and probably still better than FIFA(Played the 08 version) but I really don't understand why Konami is still trying to fool us every coming season with a 'saved as' version of the old PES code with slightly updated(definitely not upgraded) player face graphics and squad kits. Even that pre-match stadium cutscene animation, graphics and sounds are identical to the 2007 version.

The US version says "Authentic Commentary, including Spanish.." on the cover of the box but there is still no commentary in the game! And based on my FIFA PSP experience, I cannot understand why it is a big deal to include commentary or player names into the game. FIFA had a number of different stadiums, all the player names were announced along with the commentary and local leagues with all the teams in there. Looks like PES' outdated code is so bulky and it fills up that UMD space. Definitely this game needs a re-write with optimization and new graphics and more team licences.

I would again say to stick with your 2007 or 2008 version if you have those unless you want the new menu graphics, licenced Premiere League teams and current squads(if you don't really want to take your time to edit)

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