Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9859 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Konami
• Released on: 2006-03-24
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: PlayStation2

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

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.

Alright, but...
I received this today and after playing it all morning am not massively impressed. I was hoping for a Pro Evo / FM'06 style mix but you don't get either! The game takes ages to get going and get into as there's so many little fiddly things that you have to do. It takes so long just to get through a basic week as your coaches / scouts / backroom staff dialogues take too long to get through. When you finally get to play the games, your instructions don't seem to bare any resemblance to whats happening on the pitch! - your team just plays like a normal COM Pro Evo team - the amount of times I found myself going for the joypad for a nice through ball when the COM just played it backwards! Fans of Pro Evo are likely to be thinking 'why aren't I simply playing Pro Evo 5 right now?' If you're looking for a footy manager game then get FM'06 for your PC - if you want to play football then get Pro Evo 5 - don't bother with this one unless you're curious and have got some spare cash.

play chess with your gran
I brought this game thinking it was going to be the next big thing.........well i was wrong. Theres not alot to do, and trying to buy players that are good enough is just to hard, they just dont want to come to your club. The next day of playing on it you think it might get better, and it doesn't.Its gets boring so quickly and the best thing to do on the game is to create yourself as a manager and chose your assistant, and thats about as good as it gets. You can't even skip a game and get the result straight away, you have to sit there and watch your team get hammered for 10 minutes, and then you can carry on with the game. Its really not worth its money people.