Pro Evolution Soccer
Pro Evolution Soccer, often abbreviated as PES and also known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 5 in Japan, is a football sports simulation video game released in 2001. It is the first installment of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series. Winning Eleven 5 Final Evolution was also released in Japan after the release of Pro Evolution Soccer in Europe.
Also recorded as Winning Eleven 5
Pro Evolution Soccer
- Date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Konami
- Genre
- association football video game
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Pro Evolution Soccer, often abbreviated as PES and also known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 5 in Japan, is a football sports simulation video game released in 2001. It is the first installment of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series. Winning Eleven 5 Final Evolution was also released in Japan after the release of Pro Evolution Soccer in Europe.
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PES was succeeded by Pro Evolution Soccer 2, which was released in 2002. The cover of the Japanese version of the game featured Shunsuke Nakamura.
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• Title — Pro Evolution Soccer • Developer — Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo • Publisher — Konami • Composer — Michiru Yamane Norikazu Miura • Series — Pro Evolution Soccer • Released — PlayStation 2 PlayStationFebruary 15, 2002 • Genre — Sports game • Modes — Single-player, Multiplayer • Platforms — PlayStation 2, PlayStation
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In the English version of the game, Chris James and Terry Butcher provide commentary on the matches, while in the Japanese version the commentators are Jon Kabira and Katsuyoshi Shinto.
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Pro Evolution Soccer is associated with Japan.
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Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating in the 0–100 range, calculated an average score of 93 out of 100 ("Universal acclaim/Must-Play") for the PlayStation 2 version. Japanese gaming magazine Famicom Tsūshin scored both the original and J.League versions a score of 34 out of 40 (85 out of 100 for online version), while the Final Evolution version received a lower score (33 out of 40 printed, 83 out of 100 online), all on the same console version. According to Famicom Tsūshin, Winning Eleven 5 for the PlayStation 2 sold a total of 505,694 copies, the Final Evolution version sold 315,732 copies, while the J.League versions sold 77,225 copies by the end of 2001. In Europe, the game grossed 21 million or in 2001. In the United Kingdom, the PlayStation 2 version of Pro Evolution Soccer received a "Gold" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Pro Evolution Soccer was the 26th best-selling game of 2001 in the United Kingdom.
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