Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9850 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2005-10-21
• Platform: Xbox

Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
Everything fans could hope for is here: officially licensed leagues from Italy, Spain and Holland line up alongside a replica of the Premiership, as well as the French and German championships. In all, that amounts to 136 club sides and 57 national teams. Plus there's a more detailed Master League, domestic European competitions, and a comprehensive Edit Mode.

The lowdown:
The definitive footie series returns to defend its crown, and how it sparkles when held up to the light. Pro Evolution 5's gameplay has been enhanced to provide a more lifelike version of the beautiful game: players utilise their upper bodies more in the challenge, have more tricks at their disposal, and can now curl shots with pinpoint accuracy. This is total football.

Most exciting moment:
Scoring a virtual replica of Roberto Carlos' legendary free-kick against France -- the one with the unbelievable swerve-- and then dancing around the living room like a lunatic.

Since you ask:
Thierry Henry has been playing Pro Evolution games since the first title appeared ten years ago. The great man clearly has great taste.

The bottom line:
Another trophy for the Pro Evo cabinet.
Jonti Davies

Customer Reviews

Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro evo 5 is far better than fifa 2006!!!!
If you are looking for licenses buy fifa, but if you want a fun, realistic proper football game but PES5.

More frustrating than enjoyable
The most frustrating thing about this game is realising what it could have been. At its best it is fast, tatical, intelligent football. However, this isn't often realised because of some frustrating technical design faults. Some of these include:

- Passing. Dreadful AI. Even being a top class team like Brasil doesn't seem to affect your players passing. 9 times out of 10 your players will pass to anything other than the player you want them to - even when the joypad is pressed in the right direction. Long through balls are also a waste of time - your players will either pass it straight to the defender or too long so it is easily picked up by the keeper.

- Refereeing decisions. Every other play is a foul, and 9 times out of 10 it will be your player penalised. This makes the game a frustrating stop/start affair. And offsides! Every other attack was offside. It just becomes frustrating and boring when long build ups are marred by your player getting offside at almost every opportunity.

- control system. Was this devised by a monkey? How many times have my defenders failed to tackle a forward because the computer was switching control between 3 different players? How many times have my attacks come to nothing because the player I pass to is not the one that the computer has selected? And how many times will I spend cycling through different players to find the one that I want, only for the computer to override this in favour of a player I don't want?

It is a step-up from PE4 - but only marginally. It is as if Konami have taken all the elements away from the series that made it fun - fast passing, tatical build-ups, fantastic but realistic scoring - and made all the irritating aspects more prominent. It is true (as some reviewers have said) that perseverence brings its rewards. But at what price? Is it really worth spending hours trying to master a system that is so flawed? Even when you have begun to play some nice football it is all let-down by the crazy AI and referreeing. Unfortunately, no amount of game-play can make up for some pretty glaring design errors.

The Best Football Game Ever Got Better
Pro evo 5 better than any other footie game out there at the moment.FACT. It has an addictive quality like pro evo 4. Once you have grown familar with the slight tweaks made by Konami to passing, dribbling, and shooting, you can't stop playing it, the changes make it more like football compared to previous installments. The gameplay is much more addictive, enjoyable, and realistic than Fifa. Fifa may have the licences but the gameplay is what counts, if your really bothered you can change names, kits, even clubs badges, in the edit mode. The Master league is better than last year and you will enjoy progressing through the seasons, winning trophies as your team improves, eventually becoming the number one team in europe.The multi-player is fantastic and matches become a matter of life or death with extreme tension filling the room just so you can prove your the best pro evo player, and you can by going online and aim to be the best in the world. There are bad points which include: the tackling is very hard and have to be timed perfectly or it will be a free kick, sometimes the referee will be biased towards the computer, but this just makes you more determined to win, also the side stepping move is now too easy to do,(sometimes by accident) and when it is always performed during a match it makes the game unrealistic. Aside from that this a real football game for anyone with an interest in football.