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Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  128 reviews
Sales Rank: 692
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 4012927032732
EAN: 4012927032732
ASIN: B000Q2XCIY
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Not what i expected... so frustrating and annoying June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ive only had this game a couple of days, and already im wishing i hadnt brought it. It has to be the most annoying and frustrating Football game i have ever played. The passing system is a joke, the tackling is non existant. You can easily lose the ball and it is a frustrating defence system that i find the most annoying. The worst teams in real life can simply run pass a lack of defense and score. Maybe i should give it more time but i doubt ill be anything but disappointed. I think i will turn to Fifa for more help and restore more faith in Football games. I hope the next PES is far better..
Very, very disappointing May 27, 2008
I've come to love pro evo after being a FIFA fanatic for many years on my ps2. My housemate bought PES2008 for the ps2, and one of the features was a superb 'community' section. This is where you can play your friends with whatever team and it logs your scores, goals, the lot. This was very handy for settling arguments about who was the best player of them all. Now, for some very strange reason, this has been ommitted from the Xbox360 version. I'm stumped as to why.
Next the gameplay. The enjoyment level has gone right out of it. I understand reffereeing mistakes for realism, but when it's between 10-15 times EVERY game it gets bloody annoying. I conceded a feekick today a split second after kicking off. My player had just received the ball with no one near him. And the ref blew up. Unfotunately not literally. The gameplay by itself is pretty good, the feeling you get when smash it home from 40yrds into the top corner is still there, but when you're 4-0 up and still angry, it makes me wonder why I'm bothering.
I'll borrow next years version when it's out, and if these issues are still there, I'm going back to FIFA.
A massive, massive disappointment.
Pro Evo is no longer fun. May 27, 2008
The great thing about Pro Evolution has been its incredible addictive qualities, the realism and online-play.
This game is by far the shabbiest of releases I have witnessed a developer release on retail. I have given it so many chances because I felt I may end up liking it, but I have bought this game and sold it twice and I think it is pretty much settled that I don't like the game.
The frame rate is absolutely awful (most notable on replays), the graphics are just ridiculous for a next gen release and the game play is no longer fun or addictive, it is just repetitive, unrealistic and arcade-like.
This title is also very hard to enjoy online. I think by now it's safe to say the lag will certainly not be sorted out, because it's 7 months after its release and there is no sign improvement. The lag cuts the enjoyment out of the game because it becomes a game more based around luck than anything else.
It's a shame about this release but I have to jump on the Fifa bandwagon. I don't have much faith in Konami improving the game for the next release, after all it seems they have become very sloppy. It seems like the original creator, the brains behind the game, has left the company - and the rest of the team are struggling to match up.
The above review is relevant to both Pro Evolution 2008 on PS3 and Xbox 360, as I have owned both. There really is not much between the two as they both have the same issues. PS3 is slightly worse frame-rate wise.
Rent this game before you buy it.
Disappointed Pro Evo fan.
 PES- Becoming more exciting or losing its talents? May 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well. There is a lot to say, but first let me say that i am not planning to tell you whether or not you should like this game, just what i liked about it, what i didn't, and my general impressions of the game. Everyone seems to have a different and more extreme view on this years PES, but all i want to say is that it has pros and cons and that it has changed a great deal from, say, PES 4 on the Xbox, and i'm not just talking about players and graphics here.
THE GOOD
* PES has maintained its "anything can happen feel", that makes it often seem more like real football than Fifa, and this means that in PES, virtually every goal looks different, and usually plaus
ible- you will sometimes just watch a replay and think, thats just like real football.
*The nets stay a cut above Fifa's- this may seem trivial but the stiff Fifa nets detract from realism, and Pro Evo have got it right again here.
*Edit mode is back- yes, options are limited for kits, but player editing is good and it is a welcome return.
*Players are brought alive with changing expressions that look real, and true athleticism and much more agility and less rigid than FIFA. As usual, most players look something like their real life counterparts- big name players are instantly recognizable.
* Konami got the diving just right- yep, they got it pretty much spot on- it can be pulled off, but is fiddly and generally just gets you a card- they have made it so it is their, and you and the CPU will use it VERY OCCASIONALLY, but have kept it sensible.
THE BAD
*Master league is not up to the standard of Fifa's manager mode. It is a little boring, there is way too much fatigue, you can't really get anywhere playing it at the level of difficulty you normally play at, players are sold and bought for points, not money, you can't take your fave club and start with them in their best league- in short, master league is NOT awful, but not very good either.
*The players for the CPU are way too good at simpling running past and around your players in the higher difficulty level- their moves are too fast and they are too good at finishing, although you can't simply turn down the difficulty, because it falls too far, and the CPU's skill in the last third is not reflected at other areas in the pitch.
*I won't go on about this... but still not real team names for most.The lack of real kits is more annoying, however.
*Konami have not handled long balls well.
* Newcastle and Owen are better on PES than they are in real life. A lot better.
* Still some silly fouls for very little. Frustrating, every foul that is a slide tackle is a card, a standing tackle never gets one.
*Online component is limited to quick matches and ranked matches- no leagues in sight. Online games are full of lag.
THE UGLY?
No. PES is a really good game, but it could have been so much better had Konami stuck to the old PES realism. Worth considering, probably a good buy if you like football games.
 ABSOLUTE RUBBISH April 30, 2008
I have been a PES fan for a long time but after this latest offering I will never play this RUBBISH game again. First off the frame rate is too slow and the screen even freezes when the goal mouth is full of players. Online is not worth bothering about, lots of lag and I mean LOTS of lag. Konami in November 2007 have said they are trying to fix this problem and have even made a patch which you must download before you can play online. Does it work? NO! its helped with lagging offline, not by much, but online its still the same rubbish and no I have not got a slow broadband connection.. I as well as many others have tried to email Konami but they don't reply and the online gaming is still a complete load of crap. Avoid this game at all costs!!!
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