Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (known as Winning Eleven 9 in Japan and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 9 in the North America) is a football video game developed and produced by Konami as part of the Pro Evolution Soccer series. The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were released on 21 October 2005 with the PC version released a week later on the 28 October.
The game is the first in the series to include officially licensed British teams—Arsenal and Chelsea of England, as well as Celtic and Rangers of Scotland. The game also includes fully licensed leagues— La Liga of Spain, Eredivisie of the Netherlands, and Serie A of Italy. It was also the first in the series to include fully licensed national teams - Japan and South Korea. As with previous versions, the game features an edit mode allowing the player to edit certain elements of the game. It was the last game to feature the Bundesliga (in the game as German league) before it would be replaced by a generic league.
The PlayStation 2 version was the first to feature online play (currently free of charge). Within online play, statistics and league points are stored on the server for each game played. These points determine a team's (player's) position within the five online divisions.
The stats for the players in the Pro Evolution games are provided by Sports Interactive.
Famous quotes containing the words pro, evolution and/or soccer:
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—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
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—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)