Pro Evo Management out soon

By Ellie Gibson Published 9 March, 2006

Later this month, in fact.

Konami has confirmed the release date for Pro Evolution Soccer Management - and the good news is it'll be here in just a few weeks.

PESM will let you choose any club from six European leagues, taking responsibility for player selection, transfer deals, training schedules and the like. You can choose players from the database in Pro Evo 5, and create Dream Teams which can be used in both games.

Pro Evolution Soccer Management is down for a March 24th release on PS2, priced at just £24.99. In the meantime, here are some screenshots to look at. Check back nearer the time for a full review.

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Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • OnlyMe #1 6 years ago

    Hooray, I'm going to be a manager for Merseyside Red!
    Edited by 1 at 09/03/06 @ 10:55

  • Aretak #2 6 years ago

    LOL.

    To be honest, this looks pretty terrible...

  • Aretak #3 6 years ago

    So, I assume they all have real names then?

    They won't have. In the screenshot I linked to, you can see the fake Man Utd flag in the cabinet in the background. You'll probably be able to edit the names yourself, but that sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

  • marilena #4 6 years ago

    Nice tactical options there. I might try it, although the lack of real names puts me off somewhat.

  • Stickman #5 6 years ago

    Wow.

    Craptacular.

  • Tweakmonkey #6 6 years ago

    It's a good price though.

  • Hicksy #7 6 years ago

    £17.99 ps2 on Play is your intrigued but my gameometer is swinging towards the steaming end

    /awaits reviews

  • wolfen #8 6 years ago

    I'm betting it will get a 8 or a 9 here if it's reviewed by a certain person. Not that I'm pointing fingers.

    The idea looks interesting, but the "play the team" novelty already went off with PC Fútbol, Anstoss 3 and FIFA+TCM, the interface looks daft and the only hope is that it includes the usual "japanese touch" when it comes to games.
    On a related subject, I wish managing games with 3D engines would drop the TV camera: real managers see the game from the bench, not sitting on the couch in front of the telly. FFS, how hard it would be to implement a first person view from the bench allowing to move around a bit? As far as I can tell, it's all a matter of adding proper benches and some 3D crowd around, hardly rocket science.

  • TheMoonRat #9 6 years ago

    Because wolfen, its a case of fun over realism. From the bench you can't actually see whats going on that brilliantly. Realistic? Sure? Can you actually properlly enjoy the match and gain information from how your team are playing easily? Hell no!

    Realism != Fun

  • MrChuckles #10 6 years ago

    Big Sam watches Bolton from the stands for that very reason. Never understood why managers spent the match watching from the worst seat in the house :-)

  • tentonipete #11 6 years ago

    it's so they can slap their asses when they put on a substitute. who'd want to sit up in the stands and miss that action?

  • HunterKiller #12 6 years ago

    Please let this be good..the ps2 is crying out for a decent management sim. In my opinion, of course.

  • wolfen #13 6 years ago

    TheMoonRat: I know that, it's the same reason games don't have 90 minutes and orienting training sessions is automated (I think TCM 2005 has that option, but it's still a tad expensive for a game I'd probably drop in a few days). But that's no reason to keep overlooking such feature , given as many managers nowdays rely on scouts on the stands and watching the game on the telly to give a better overview on the player performance.

    And being honest, most 3D managers don't have that many nuances when it comes to playing badly - if a midfielder misses a lot of passes, if a forward misses a lot of chances or a defender that makes lots of fouls isn't properly the kind of thing that requires a TV camera to see. The extras of FPS controls, looking at the faces in the bench and in the crowd and walking up and down the line and get the fourth official sending you to the box would make up for having to read a generated game analysis at half time.

  • Stickman #14 6 years ago

    Neil Warnock Simulator would be fecking ace!

    /presses 'question lino's parentage' button.
    Edited by 1 at 09/03/06 @ 20:18

  • TheMoonRat #15 6 years ago

    Nah Stuart Pearce simulator; dual analogue sticks control each arm seperately. Now YOU can run up and down the touchline waving your arms all around the place looking rathar silly.

    Add bonus round of running onto the pitch to put the ball where the free kick is and running back before the ref see's you!

    Pearce is a legend!