Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Tue 01 Apr 2008
UPDATE: Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 has now been announced. Keep up to date with all the latest news by visiting our PES 2009 section.
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To break away from the tradition of posting false news stories on April 1st (or April Fool’s day) I have decided to instead post 10 predictions for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009. I’ve been covering Pro Evolution Soccer online for the past 6 years now and Konami can be pretty predictable – so here are my best educated guesses for what we are likely to see.
- PES 2009 WILL BE RELEASED IN OCTOBER
Forget all the rumours you may have heard about there being no Pro Evolution Soccer until next year, PES 2009 will be released October 2008.
- PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMS WILL NOT BE EDITABLE
I think this is something that has been coming for a while. For the past few years the Premier League has been getting on Konami’s back more and more about the Option Files that end up floating around the web and, more importantly, eBay. I dare say EA are not too happy about it either given there ‘exclusive’ deal. So I think it’s quite likely that PES 2009 the kits, at least, will be locked down for the Premier League teams.
- THERE WILL BE ONLY TWO LICENSED PREMIER LEAGUE TEAMS
At most! Konami have to buy these licenses individually from the clubs, and I believe they are allowed a maximum of 2… until the ‘exclusive’ deal EA has with the Premier League expires in 2010 when the rights will be up for grabs again. Don’t be surprised if the licensed teams are Everton and Aston Villa.
- PENDULUM WILL PERFORM THE INTRO MUSIC
PES 2008’s choice of music was questionable to say the least. I don’t have a problem with choosing the Kaiser Chiefs, but the song just didn’t work. Something with a bit more kick to it will be introduced for PES 2009. Pendulum, best known for their hits ‘Granite‘ and ‘Slam‘, have already had their music appear in Motorstorm on the PS3 and Dance Dance Revolution Universe on XBox 360.
- ONLINE MODES WILL BE IMPROVED
This goes without saying. Konami know that unless online is ten-times better than it was for PES 2008 that they are in BIG trouble. I expect there will be online leagues, or at least knock-out cup contests, and the lobby system will be modified to be similar to that of PES6.
- UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF SAVED REPLAYS
No idea why you can’t do this alread.
- MASTER LEAGUE TO FEATURE MORE INTERACTION
They took a step in the right direction with PES 2008 by introducing things like ‘Player speaks about recent form’, but this can, and needs, to be taken a lot further. Around 5 years ago Konami made a joint announcement with SI Games that PES and CM would be joining forces – what the hell happened to that? I don’t see any Football Manager features currently in PES, do you? But for PES 2009 I forsee the ability to interact with players such as praising them for recent performances, resulting in their moral going up. Too much of this though and other players will become disheartend. Newspaper reports linking you to certain players will require a response from you – this will make negotiations with the player in question easier, or harder, depending on how you handle the report.
- YOU WILL BE ABLE TO STAND CLOSER FOR THROW-INS
Why can’t you go within 10 yards of a person taking a throw-in at the moment? I think Konami will finally see sense in the new game and allow players to go as close as they like (well, closer than 10 yards anyway!).
- REFEREE’S WILL BE MORE INTELLIGENT
I think one of the most disapointing aspects of the PES 2008 gameplay was the fact the referees often spoilt the game. You would see red for a perfectly good tackle, while a last man lunge would be punishable with only yellow. Advantages will be re-introduced properly. They seemed far less realistic in PES 2008 than they did in PES6. Unless I’ve somehow missed it, referee’s won’t go back and book a player after allowing play to continue following a rough challenge. This will be addressed for PES 2009.
- FERNANDO TORRES TO BE ON THE COVER
Don’t think I need to elaborate on this one.
So there you have it, PESGaming’s 10 predictions for Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.
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Posted by Steve Smith in PES 2008 News on Wed 19 Mar 2008
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Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Thu 13 Mar 2008
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 has finally made it’s annual appearance state-side, some 5 months after being released in PAL regions. The game, which is seemingly unchanged from it’s European counterpart, has been released on every format but the Wii – that version will follow next week (some 10 days EARLIER than Europe!).
Transfers are completely out of date, Sunderland’s star striker Kenwyn Jones is not even in the game. Meanwhile no January transfers were complete. Even the transfers made near to the end of the August deadline have been inexplicably neglected.
So, to our readers in North America – how are you enjoying your PES 2008 experience?
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Don’t forget, gamers from around the world can enter our GOTM March/April contest.
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Wed 20 Feb 2008
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 will finally be making an appearance on Sony’s PSP on February 29th. The game, which is being released some 5 months afters it’s console counterpart, will retail for around £17.99 – Buy with Play for release date delivery.
IGN have published a favourable 8.9 review, which you can read in full here.
A bona-fide PES game on the PSP, PES 2008 admittedly only takes small steps from last year’s title, but it takes all the right ones. If there is anyone yet to be converted to Seabass’s formula, this isn’t the game to do it. However, for PSP owners who already worship at the temple of PES, this could well be their mana. In improving upon PES 6 it marks itself as the definitive sports title currently available on the PSP, and for those of a certain inclination it’s therefore one of the best games there is for Sony’s handheld.
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Fri 18 Jan 2008
Konami have released a statement announcing the release of PES on the Nintendo Wii in March.
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has announced a late March release date for its eagerly-awaited PES 2008 for Wii™.Created specifically to make full use of the Wii’s unique control system, PES 2008 brings all the realism of Pro Evolution Soccer to the Nintendo machine, but with a more ‘team-orientated’ control system. The Wii game mirrors the real sport’s use of open space and the exploitation of defensive lapses and accurate passes essential in creating scoring opportunities. The Wii version of PES 2008 expands on these elements, with the use of the Nunchuck and Wii Remote controllers giving the player control over both the player on the ball, and those around him.
Posted by Don Sweey in PES 2008 News on Tue 25 Dec 2007
Merry Christmas to you from all at PESGaming.
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Thu 13 Dec 2007
It’s been quiet on the news front lately, so I thought I would share with you a problem a reader has been having with Master League on the PS2 version of PES 2008.
I’ve got the Ps2 version of PES2008 and was just wondering if u’ve heard of anyone having a similar problem in Master League, when i try and turn off classic players, i put the setting to ‘no’ but once i’ve started the master league up the settings always say Classic players ‘yes’ as if i haven’t turned it off. Its Been frustrating, leading me to restart my masterleague 3 times having played a number of games, and most recently having to completely remake a team (AFC Wimbledon) which i had already made, (very time consuming) so i could use a new memory card with fresh option file so i wouldn’t have any of the classic players on it. I’m just desperate to play a realistic master league without George Weah popping up for Liverpool or the like. Any clues?
Any advice for the guy? I don’t personally have the PS2 version so can’t help.
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Wed 05 Dec 2007
Just a quick update… the GOTM contest will be ending at the end of December, when we will choose the 5 best goals to put up for the public vote. Here is a quick summry of the GOTM – sponsored by ConsoleGoals.
- All goals must be from PES 2008
- Score the best goal you can on the hardest difficulty (we have final say as to who the 6 finalists are)
- Record your goal as a movie file on your PC. Full instructions and methods can be found here.
- Upload your goal to www.consolegoals.com
- Post your goal in the GOTM forum as a new thread with a decription of the goal in the subject line (starting with GOTM Nov/Dec), which can be found HERE
To post your ConsoleGoals video’s directly into the forum, copy the Forum BB code that can be found on your ConsoleGoals video page under ‘SHARE DETAILS’ and then place it in your post/thread – It should end with [/cgvideo]
All goals MUST be submitted in the correct format and on ConsoleGoals to be considered.
Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Mon 03 Dec 2007
Thanks to StrategyInformer for the heads up on this one.
Now available is PC patch version 1.2 for Pro Evolution Soccer 2008… this new patch fixes:
1. Searching for opponents in “Quickmatch” tries first to pair you with
players having a good connection
2. Occasionally appearing slow downs during matches have been fixed to
improve game play quality
3. Some changes to the network structure have been introduced in order to
solve issues for users which are not able to connect to opponents
4. Issues with Windows Vista causing PES 2008 not to recognize the full
amount of the video card’s VRAM have been fixed.
5. Various other minor issues have been corrected
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Posted by Peter Willis in PES 2008 News on Mon 03 Dec 2007
If you are looking to pick up PES 2008 do so in the next 24 hours at Play and you will pay just 19.99! PC version is just a tenner…
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