When did Pro Evolution Soccer come out?

Pro Evolution Soccer was released on 15 March 2001 for PlayStation 2.

Pro Evolution Soccer (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pro Evolution Soccer

Pro Evolution Soccer, often abbreviated as PES and also known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 5 in Japan and North America, is a football sports simulation video game released in 2001. It is the first…

85 15 March 2001

What Pro Evolution Soccer is

Pro Evolution Soccer is a simulator game developed by Konami and released in 2001. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pro Evolution Soccer series

Pro Evolution Soccer is the sixth of 93 entries we hold in the Pro Evolution Soccer series. It arrived 7 months after ISS Pro Evolution 2. The next entry was J.League Jikkyou Winning Eleven 2001 in 2001. Its critic score of 85 is 11 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International at 92.

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How it was received

Pro Evolution Soccer holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Pro Evolution Soccer launched on 15 March 2001, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon.

Cheats and codes

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