Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 Classics (Xbox 360)

As Fifa 10 and Pro 10 come out and soon we will have 11 and 12 and......you know the rest. For those of us unwilling to fork out £30 on a game these budget titles are a boon. But is it worth the price?Overall, yes, but with reservations. Like most PES games it suffers from phoney team names. They usually get away with player names, but with teams like South London you might find it worthwhile investing an hour in changing them to the correct names.That aside this plays a good game of footie. Easy passing, good shooting and heading but two major flaws for me.One is the dreadful slow down that occurs when a player is injured and comes back on - the game puts a little window in shot showing them coming back on. Meanwhile play slows to a crawl. And this also can happen in a goal mouth scramble. I even thought at one point it was deliberate - oh no, just poor programming. When an XBox can cope with Call of Duty and the ilk, having a few extra players in the penalty box should be easy.The other issue is replays. Is it me, but even at the best settings on an HD TV they are jerky and hard to see?Otherwise it is fun, but the negative points show that like EA have done in the past, PES pumps out the updates with little regard for quality checking. However, at a fiver (Feb 2010) it is hard to pass up.Truth is since buying this with the XBox at Christmas I got my hands on a copy of Fifa 2009 second hand for under a fiver - much better.

The product name says "Pro-Evolution Soccer 2009 (Classics)", while the picture shows Pro-Ev 2008.It is actually Pro-Evolution 2008 Classics.

awesome game one of my favourite pes releases,had it for pc but when they stopped live server games got it for 360 and was even happier!

it was good being im normally a fifa man myself but, the controls were simple enough to get use to. The graphics are okay i suppose but all in all it is good game, and well worth buying.