Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #299 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• Discover a more immersive, vivid soccer experience than ever before
• Improved long-range and close-range ball control, passing, and player-specific moves
• Master League and Cup modes are built up even better than last year¿s game
• New teams like club favorites Spurs, Newcastle, Anderlecht, and Basel
• Proprietary AI system TeamVision offering the most intelligent competition available

Amazon.com
The world's most popular soccer game is back under a new name, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. Formerly Winning Eleven, PES 2008 builds upon the competitive spirit embodied by its predecessor with some major improvements. PES gamers will discover a more immersive, vivid soccer experience than they've ever played! PES 2008 features new animations, new clubs and leagues, and online play! Above all else, the new "TeamVision" AI system is more intelligent than ever. Hot-shots will have plenty of new moves to show-up their opponents, or get shown-up so tape those ankles!

Features:

• PES's pursuit for realism is evident with improved long-range and close-range ball control, passing, and player-specific moves.
• Master League and Cup modes are built up even better than last year's game.
• New teams like club favorites Spurs, Newcastle, Anderlecht, and Basel, plus national sides from England, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, and Scotland.
• Features the proprietary AI system TeamVision offering the most intelligent competition available.

Customer Reviews

Superb game. Far exceeding the expectations.
One of the best game software my kids have seen. Usually they get bored with any game software within 10 days of playing. But, I see the same enthusiasm even after weeks of play.

I am thinking this might even help with their real field game - while passing the ball, Strategizing etc.

Awesome Soccer Game
I already had Winning Eleven 9 for PS2 and I have to say the Wii version is a great improvement. The controls really are a lot of fun and give you a lot of control. The basic look and feel of the game are the same and anything that has changed I would say has been an improvement. I have component cables for my HD wide-screen TV so the game gives me full 480p wide-screen (unlike the PS2 WE9 which had no wide-screen) which looks great. They took out all those different viewing options which looked cool but were totally impractical (I always used the view that was pulled out the farthest so I could see everything that was happening) and replaced it with 2 views, and I think that was a good choice.

I wish I could have rated this 4 1/2 stars as I have a couple of minor complaints. The main one is that on defense I wish I could directly control a player rather than the sort of "manager" role you play of just instructing everyone how to behave. Sometimes the player with the ball takes off and I want to grab a player and chase him but I have to figure out another way to get the computer-controlled guys to go after him. I wish the American MLS league was included (where's Beckham!?). My last complaint is not really the game's fault - each time I have tried to play an online game there hasn't been anyone available to play against.

Overall, this game is great. Just complicated enough to give you a lot of control but not too much that it isn't fun. Highly recommended.

New way of playing Soccer
All my friends are video game Soccer lovers, but I'm the only one with the Wii console, they got PSP II an X box 360 consoles.

It was difficult at the beginning, an all of them we're complaining about the game, but after a few hours all of us could get the big dimension of it.

As always Wii is more focused in the way you play over the graphics and the game can also improve in the direction of shooting, but besides that is a entertainment game with a new way of playing.