Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16444 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2004-05-07
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pro Evolution Soccer has established itself as the football game of choice among discerning PS2 owners. With each new addition to the series, Konami makes major improvements to the gameplay and graphics. Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is no exception; it really is miles better than Pro Evolution Soccer 2.

The first thing you'll notice in this third instalment is how much more lifelike it is. Not only are the graphics much more detailed, but the player animation is now realistically fluent and the ball behaves as an actual Size 5 would. Squint and you really will think you're watching Sky Sports.

Pro Evolution Soccer 3's gameplay is perfectly balanced. Whatever your favoured way of playing the Beautiful Game (total football or long ball, it's up to you) Pro Evolution Soccer 3 accommodates that preference. Controls are sharp and responsive, and with the right combination of button presses it's possible to perform just about any manoeuvre or trick in Real Madrid's repertoire. That's how comprehensive this simulation is.

As a single-player experience, Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is a far sight more challenging than its predecessors were: the Master League mode is expanded still further and the artificial intelligence is a tough nut to crack. And, as was expected, this third game in the series takes multiplayer PlayStation 2 gaming to new heights. --Jonti Davies

GamesMaster Magazine
"Mesmerising. 95%."

Play Magazine
"The core gameplay has been tweaked to perfection... the best footie game on any console. 97%."

Customer Reviews

Simply The Best Football game ever...
If you want this game then you obviously bought PES 1 or PES2.

Pro Evolution contains-

4 Master Legues containing purely European clubs.
WEFA Cup,Konami Cup,International Cup,Copa Americas,Eupoean Cup,Afican Tornement,Asian Cup,American Cup.

Team Roster-
Liverpool,Man U,Arsenal,Chelsea,Leeds,West Ham,Tottenham,Everton,Newcastle,Man City,Aston Villa,Fulham,Juve,Inter,AC,Parma,Cheivo,Udinese,Bolongna,Lazio,
Roma,Real Madrid,Deportivo,Sevilla,Barca,Betis,Valencia,Real Sociedad,Athletico Madrid,PSG,Auxerre,Bourdeaux,Monaco,Marsaille,Lyon,Bayern Munich,Dortmund,Shalke 04,Leverkusen,Hamburg,PSV,Ajax,Feynoord,Porto,Sporting Lisbon, Benfica,Rangers, Celtic,
Galatasary,Beskitas,Olympiakos, Panathinaikos,Anderlecht,Sparta Prague,Spartak Moscow,Dynamo Kiev,Southhampton,Blackburn Rovers,Lilles,Athletico Bilbao,FC Basel,River Plate,Corinthians,Santos,Athleco Miniero.
;International Teams stay the same, but Yugoslavia have changed their name to Serbia & Montenegro.

Players now have their names at the back of their shirts.

New tricks can be done including-
360 degree turns,Flick Overs, Ball Juggling,triple stepovers all by using the R3 analouge button.

Better editing- Over 70 hairstyles, edit eyebrows,noses,eyes,mouths,cheeks,eyes,cheeks etc.

New animations- More individual celebrations (over 40),new styles of shots, players tend to use their stronger foot, players follow up their shots if goalkeepers parry.

New PES3 shop, use points gained in competitions to buy new items such as new hairtyles etc.

PES3 has the same sort of gameplay as PES2, but with some big tweaks, it feels more like football when you play it. If you were thinking about getting Club Football or FIFA 2004, Well don't as PES3 is the winner, although Club Football is pretty decent as well.

the beautiful game
PES1 was great, PES2 was quite simply sublime, and PES3 has continued the trend by being just that bit better, just that bit sleeker, and just that bit more like the real beautiful game.

Everything is here. A far more realistic master league, now featuring 4 seperate leagues each split into two divisions, which leads to a champions league style tournament between the top teams of each league.
Player transfers between teams have been tweaked to near perfection: you can no longer acquire players with no club team for free, making for a much more balanced master league experience.
Players perform the duties they perform in real life. Zidane is a playmaker with incredible skill, Roberto Carlos powers down the wing and shoots from long distance, David Seaman lets a lot of poor shots past him.
The gameplay has been honed to perfection. Matches can be high scoring (4-0 is the highest I have acheived, and also the most I have been defeated by) or they can be 0-0 affairs where nothing you do works. It's all down to you - if you have the skill, you can pull something special out of the bag. If you're just running straight at the goal, more often then not you'll be broken down and counter-attacked. Your players have varying morale and fitness - if you don't rest key men you can find yourself suffering at the hands of a team far below you in the league.
Celebrations are better now, also! There are many trademark celebrations, and I am pleased that scoring late in the game makes your striker pick the ball out of the net and run back to the centre.

The licence is again disappointing: I solved this by purchasing the update disc from amazon, which was cheap enough and worked perfectly. As a result, this game could not be any better. I would like to see Konami put more money into the licence, however: it would make a great game absolutely irresistable. The commentary is fine, and functional. There are some pretty nifty comments (although I am disappointed that PES2's 'that's the shot of a master!' has been removed) but it is mostly unspectacular.
One player is fantastic, as are exhibition matches or tournaments with two or more players. You could kill many hours on PES3 multiplayer.

It is often said, but it needs saying again. PES3 is how football is supposed to be. It flows, it's realistic, and when it all comes together, it feels brilliant.

A few iffy things, much better than FIFA
Brilliant gameplay as always, very improved and unlike FIFA, clear graphics.

They've stepped up to FIFA in the season/career mode by now having 4 different leagues each with 2 divisions. One for english, scottish, french.
1 for Spanish ect, 1 for Italian ect, 1 for German ect. with a few misellaneous teams scatterd about like russian, greek, czech ect.
They've also added wages, contracts, youth academies, bargenning and an FA Cup for each league and a UEFA cup and champions league to play between the leagues.

like always its slightly anoying having fake names but theyve improved them slightly, all English, French and Brazillian players have the right names and clubs are called stuff to do with them like liverpool are called merseyside red.

As an added bonus theres a very detailed create mode in which you can create a player, design his face, choose from over 150 different hairstyles, give him stats and even give him boots from total 90s to predators, its all there

a few bad points is the commentry; absolutely awful, worse than FIFA 99 which I also own, the refereeing which seems to have got worse, the play on system does not work at all and sometimes it is played at an almost non contact rate, any challenge from behind usually results in a straight red and the goalies cant save any low shot into the corner and they save all free kicks

all in all a lot better than FIFA