Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8918 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2006-03-24
• Rating: Universal, particularly children
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
Produced by Akiyoshi Chosokabe, a member of Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka's Pro Evolution Soccer development team, Pro Evolution Soccer Management invites users to experience the dizzying highs and dreadful lows of managing a top-flight club. Players can manage any club from six European leagues, and are charged with balancing the day-to-day running of their chosen side, including player selection, training methods, and transfer dealings.

Using a simple yet effective menu system, players oversee every aspect of their team's performance. In addition, coaching staff must be chosen to assist in specific areas, while Pro Evolution Soccer 5's exhaustive player database can be scoured for new signings before entering negotiations to secure their services. Data from Pro Evolution Soccer 5 can be used in Management for the creation of 'Dream Teams', which can then be swapped and used in both games.

Pro Evolution Soccer Management is the perfect complement to Pro Evolution Soccer 5 and features an incredible level of depth. As in the real thing, the user will stand or fall by the results of their team, and while European glory is the aim of every manager, each team's Board of Directors will be quick to give struggling managers the sack.

Customer Reviews

i like pro evolution soocer management
I think the game is a fun game tobstart with, but then it just gets boring, me and my friend play on this game and we think the game is fun but when you get used to it it getting boring, especally whenyou start drawing and losing all the time.

I have ordered the game and i am getting sometime in the week,most likely tuesday, I like the fact you can watch your team play, but when you start losing it just gets boring, i also think the tv shows and highligths on the game are pointless becuase they on only on for 30 seconds, for example


"good evening and welcome to pro elovution soccer highlights." ...
(30 seconds later)
"thank and good night"

You see no piont at all, anyway overall i liked the game but konami should do more on the next pro evolution soccer management game, (pro evolution soccer management 2), such as keeping the gamer enterain in the long term, meaning not just enteraining them for creating there manager, choosing staff and playing the first couple games.

Last of all the opponite reasearch is to long and should be cut shorter.


thanks for reading.

Half Fun/Half utter nonesense
I agree with the previous review. I actually live in the same house as the last reviewer and I can concur with everything he says. The game starts out fun 'cos you can try and buy all your favourite PRO players (some of our particular faves include Ryan "The Tower" Babel, Barry "Wildcat" Ferguson, Shaun "The Little Imp" Wright-Phillips, Jaap "The Rock" Stam, Snake Derrick and, of course, the IMMORTAL CROW BILNEY) and make a kind of super-team. But that all becomes irrelevant when you try and play the actual games. Or rather, watch them. Your players, no matter how good they actually are on paper, continue to confound you by doing the most utterly ludicrous things possible, such as running the ball out of play for no reason, turning back when through on goal, passing right back to defence from attack etc. The whole thing is ridiculous. Your players will get sent off for minor challanges, but the computer's won't. After a few seasons all your team's passing just goes garbage and they resort to long hoofs up field. Changing tactics has no affect whatsoever as they still play in the exact same fashion. Nonesense! Still, some of the other features are at least amusing. The player-manager interaction thing is funny for a few hours. "Good, bad, whatever, I'm just ready to go at full power" etc etc and the physical movements are bizarre. And, of course, Peter and Trevor remain consistently the single best thing about the game with some absolutely cracking lines of commentary/dialogue, many of which have become (rather pathetically) catchphrases in our PRO mad household. In short, don't buy this game: stick to PRO SOCCER 5 or 6 or whatever and invest in a PC copy of FOOTBALL MANAGER 2006/7.

Addictive, but not much fun.
Being an avid fan of Pro ES 4 and 5, i bought this game with high (if somewhat suspicious) hopes. Yes, everything you know and love about Pro ES is still there - you just transfer the data over- such as Trevor Brooking's commentary, and the quaint names for teams and unlicensed players, and at first appears to be quite an indepth game- plenty of detail laid out in the familiar style of Pro. However, i'm not normally one to get frustrated over a computer game, but this did do my head in. When you reach the third season, nothing goes right, no matter what you try, and all along in the back of your mind is that its fixed. Change tactics? Your players still do daft things, which surprise surprise, the other team don't. Don't kid yourself into thinking it gets better, it just doesn't. It is possible to watch the game at high speed you don;t have to sit through every minute, though this furthers the impression its all preset.

Being Konami's first management game, its ok. You only have to see a version of Pro 1 with todays version and see how better it is, so given a couple of seasons this game can improve- the graphics etc are fine, and it is strangely addictive in the fact you think it might be different next match. Do yourself a favour and turn it off. Play the normal game instead.