PES 2008 PS3

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Pro Evolution Soccer 2008(PES 2008, known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2008 in Asia, sometimes called World Soccer: Winning Eleven 11 (PS2), only in North America) is an association football video game in Pro Evolution Soccer series by Konami. The game was announced on 18 June 2007. Its title is different from the other Pro Evolution Soccer games in that it is of a year and not a version; this was due to EA Sports' FIFA series naming their titles with two digit numbers (i.e. 07, 08) and in conclusion would seem that PES was a year behind FIFA (to non-fans which had no knowledge of the previous games of the franchise). It was released for Windows, Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360 And mobile. The game sold 6.37 million units worldwide.PES 2008 was succeeded by Pro Evolution Soccer 2009. This was the first game of the series for the Nintendo Wii And PlayStation 3.

Covers

Portugal and (at the time) Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo is included on all PES 2008 covers, along with Michael Owen in the UK, Gianluigi Buffon in Italy, Lucas Neill in Australia, and Didier Drogba in France.Also in Japanese version, the cover art only Cristiano Ronaldo himself.

Commentators

Jon Champion and Mark Lawrenson provide the English commentary for the first time, replacing long-time commentary team Peter Brackley and Trevor Brooking, who commentated from Pro Evolution Soccers 2 to 6. Also in the Japanese version, Jon Kabira and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa continue as commentators and the pitch reporter was Florent Dabadie.

Reception

The game was met with positive to very mixed reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 83.60% and 83 out of 100 for the Wii version; 82.58% and 82 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version;79.74% and 80 out of 100 for the PSP version;78.50% for the PC version;75.53% and 76 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version; 73.46% and 74 out of 100 for the PlayStation 3 version;and 58.57% and 58 out of 100 for the DS version.
The PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 releases of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 each received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies per version in the United Kingdom. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 sold approximately 104,654 copies since its debut in Japan. It debuted at #5 in the UK game charts before moving to #3 in the second week after a 34% increase in sales.It was awarded Best Sports Game for the Wii by IGN in its 2008 video game awards. It was also nominated for Wii Game of the Year by IGN.