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PES 2009: If Only Watching Real Soccer Was This Fun

Kotaku writes: "If there's one lesson I learned from Konami's super fun gaming day in NYC yesterday, it would have to be coming to the realization that playing a soccer video game is far more entertaining than watching a real one. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not hater by any means. I respect the sport, and I rarely ever diss its fans. But this is the only instance I can find where the video game equivalent is far more entertaining than the real thing. Is that because real soccer is just that boring? Or is it a testament to how good Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 is?"

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tangerine - 467 days 18 hours ago

1 - Sigh, you wonder why the world hates your ignorance...

Obviously reviewed by a dumb ass American.
That's the only person on Earth that says that kind of crap about the greatest sport on planet earth.

Oh, BTW, no one likes American Football, or BaseBall.
They are crap. Please rename the Word Series to the American cup or something, as no one else in said world is in it.

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PoSTedUP - 467 days 18 hours ago

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"no one likes American Football, or BaseBall." "they are crap"

^ your calling someone ignorant???? wow, talk about a hypocrite......

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pwnsause - 467 days 18 hours ago

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uh no. Baseball is played almost all over the world, leave baseball out of this.

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ape007 - 467 days 18 hours ago

1.3 - @ 1

you are 100% right

bubbles

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pwnsause - 467 days 17 hours ago

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Seriously, leave baseball out of it. Baseball isnt just played in the US. it is also played in some parts of latin America, Carribean, Japan and Korea.

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shine1396 - 467 days 16 hours ago

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jeez it doesn't take much to hate on Kotaku...they obviously want site hits....

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Rock Bottom - 467 days 15 hours ago

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You're all messing the point, "even someone who doesn't like soccer can enjoy PES2009", can't wait for this game.

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dro - 467 days 13 hours ago

1.7 - tangerine

bubbles up... the world cup is watched by the hole world apart from america which is over 4billion people, while the super bowl is watched by only america which is over 100 million people!!! (what dose that tell u football haters)!!!... (-_-)

that reminds me chelsea vs manchester united is this weekend!!! ;D

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mariusmal - 467 days 10 hours ago

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"uh no. Baseball is played almost all over the world, leave baseball out of this."

i'm from europe and love baseball also. but dont compare the numbers or worldwide football (yes not soccer) players to baseball players. only in brasil there are some almost 2 million players signed up in the football association.

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Ice2ms - 467 days 9 hours ago

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@dro

How about last saturday Liverpool - Man U. I <3 Liverpool :P

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MRMagoo123 - 467 days 1 hour ago

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ARSENAL !!!!!! nothing compares to football ive been a fan of arsenal since i was 8 so 19 years now the only thing i get as excited watching as football is NRL the broncos all the way and also the state of origin matches which i can happily say QLD won again lol to NSW

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Gollum - 467 days 18 hours ago

2 - Word!

this dudes a dumbass... he wouldnt see the emotion we get from watching Football (NOT SOCCER!!) Football ... i myself have never sat down to watch a NFL game so im not gonna knock it straight away, but by Kotakus logic NFL is a rip off of Rugby except you wear armour and helmet lolz

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PoSTedUP - 467 days 18 hours ago

2.1 - i hate to break it to ya

but American football came first : ) like 1609 and rugby wasn't their until mid 1800's, so who ripped off of who? and at first American football was played without armor but people were getting killed and injured really badly so they put the gear on them.

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tangerine - 467 days 18 hours ago

2.2 - @PosTedUP

Sorry child but were do you get you facts from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Read that. You know how to read? you ignorant ****?

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PoSTedUP - 467 days 17 hours ago

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sorry i was misinformed, no need to use profanity asshole, and talk about ignorant? my statement was a mistake, you might wanna go back and check that first statement you wrote, and THEN call someone ignorant, ok? cause your first statement WASENT a mistake and has Ignorant written all over it ok. people make mistakes and admit it, ignorant people are just ignorant. you are ignorant. i am not ignorant. thats the difference between me and you ; ). peace.

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Why o why - 467 days 17 hours ago

2.4 - ok peeps

no need to get all serious about it. If the native americans were playing sport then that may of predated rugby but as a country America is reletively new if you know what i mean. It doesnt really matter what came first anyway but Football is Football not soccer

wtf first the Americans change our language whilst still calling it english then you rename the WORLDS sport soccer. (Im joking....in a serious way though;)

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shine1396 - 467 days 16 hours ago

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erm soccer isn't the american name for football. its english. another english sport Rugby is also known as football. Thats why when rugby when to america they called it american football. Soccer is to differentiate between rugby football and football. hmmm...calm down people, my first reaction was to get angry but then I saw the site...

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MRMagoo123 - 467 days 1 hour ago

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I cant stand NFL ive really tried to watch it but it bores me to death, how long can they make 1 minute last in the game? plus why all the padding you dont see NRL players wearing it and they hit just as hard if not harder.Baseball is ok when there is something happening but most of the time there just spitting or looking round ide rather watch tennis.just my opinion tho.

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ape007 - 467 days 18 hours ago

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dumb stupid typical american

SOCCER IS THE GREATEST SPORT IN THE WORLD.PERIOD

go watch nfl,hocky,baseball or nba lol

I have a question,WHY DOES AMERICANS HATE SOCCER(AND HEY IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL,IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL CAUSE YOU ONLY ALLOWED YOUR FOOT 99%,IN NFL YOU CAN CATCH THE BALL AND RUN,????????? WHY YOU CALL IT FOOTBALL?
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pwnsause - 467 days 17 hours ago

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Because they kill Each other, you seen them tackle people especially the 300lb ones. it isn't just catching and running BTW, theres a strategy behind it, its called play calling, how to run past the tackler without getting killed on the field. anyway, i like all sports. except for Cricket.

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Skadoosh - 467 days 17 hours ago

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Soccer may be the greatest sport in the world to you but not everybody. It's called preference. This guy just doesn't like soccer.

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Why o why - 467 days 17 hours ago

3.3 - cricket is dead

american football is just a another version of rugby imo. The plays seem interesting though after playing a bit of madden. I only like basketball because of its pace. The rest are too stop n start'ish IMO

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pwnsause

for real? They should of just called it ovalball and saved the confusion

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pwnsause - 467 days 17 hours ago

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oh BTW the reason why people in the US call it football is because, yup you guessed it, the ball is a foot long, in other words:

1 foot= .30 meters

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shine1396 - 467 days 16 hours ago

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erm no..it evolved from rubgy (football), thats why its called american football...

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micro_invader - 467 days 12 hours ago

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Nah, don't hate on Cricket. Sure, there's not as much action in it as other sports but it's fun, peaceful game. I enjoy playing it with my friends.

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MRMagoo123 - 467 days 1 hour ago

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If you think cricket is too slow watch the 20/20 matches the rules are different so the game is alot faster paced so there isnt much in the way of waiting for the right ball you just swing and hope it goes.

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Irving - 467 days 17 hours ago

4 - Wow

Typical dumbass statement. I bet he enjoys the kind of FOOTBALL where players use more hands than legs. Thats why I don't trust football (real one) game reviews from American websites.

Oh, and watching cars go round and round in oval circuits for 200 laps isn't very exciting either.

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Why o why - 467 days 17 hours ago

4.1 - nascar is also dead

boy did that sport need tom cruise :)

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pwnsause - 467 days 17 hours ago

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yea no one watches nascar, unless you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, aka the line the divides the US North and South.

Indy car racing is getting quite popular though, cause its not just racing in a loop.

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TruthbeTold - 467 days 17 hours ago

4.3 - pwnsause (This is in response to 3.4)

That is only yet another example of our arrogance and pin hole view here in America. We're about the only country left that doesn't hold the metric system in first regard.

Seriously, I'm embarrassed sometimes by my country. We always have to view things from a point of view so strongly set forth by our own culture that the rest of the world shakes its head. We always act as if what we like is the best, and everyone else should fall in line, while simultaneously belittling things that the rest of the world adores since we don't/can't relate to it. We always have to be right, even when we're wrong. "Cuz we're America damn it!"

I swear, I wish the rest of the world would just lie to the stupid 30% or so of us who won't let it go and say: "Hey, you guys were right about Iraq and you won!" Just one more lie. Maybe that way we'd be able to bring our troops home instead of them dying over some B.S.

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SacT0wnF1n3st - 467 days 17 hours ago

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Forza Inter! :)

Oh and not many intelligent people working for Kotaku so what do we expect?

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Skadoosh - 467 days 17 hours ago

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Well believe it or not, some people don't like soccer. And it's interested to read a preview from somebody who doesn't like soccer.

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Why o why - 467 days 17 hours ago

7 - Believe it or not people

despite the name of the game its called FOOTBALL and it is the WORLDS SPORT. No hyphen, added names before or after just FOOTBALL. No disrespect to the greats sports of the world but it IS the beautiful game (unless your watching stoke city)

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PLiPhaze - 467 days 14 hours ago

7.1 - Whoa Dude

(Arsenal supporter) but stoke city aren't THAT bad???!!!

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Why o why - 467 days 13 hours ago

7.2 - im also a gooner

but adrian durum has got their long throw-in tactic into my head

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PLiPhaze - 467 days 10 hours ago

7.3 - LOL

Bubbles!!!!

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MRMagoo123 - 467 days ago

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ARSENAL!!!!! :-D

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Dan_eire - 467 days 16 hours ago

8 - My god, you people are pathetic

You go on about football being great and (american) football being rubbish, just because you didn't grow up with that sport around you. It's that closed-mindedness that grows hate in the world. It's a sport/game ffs... get over it! "Oh, our country invented this", "ye well our country did this..". Let's face it, everyone else's country/traditions seem weird and sometimes laughable. But at least try to be open-minded and accept that different people like different things.

Anyway, about the game... can't bloody wait for it. I used to follow football, not any more - i'm a rugby man now (much more entertaining to watch, no b1tches pretending to be injured!). But i've played pes2008 everyday since it was released - great game.

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tangerine - 467 days 16 hours ago

9 - @pwnsause

pwnsause wrote "Seriously, leave baseball out of it. Baseball isnt just played in the US. it is also played in some parts of latin America, Carribean, Japan and Korea."

Well, that leaves about 9 tenths of planet Earth that couldn't give two sh1ts about a glorified rounders (look it up) game. I think I have a legitimate point, using baseball in my post.

Seriously though, you guys do come of HIGHLY DUMB. It's not just Kotaku, I have heard similar comments from tons of Americans in the past. I cringe for considerate thoughtful Americans. I know you are out there.

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raidenCPT - 467 days 15 hours ago

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Americans can be really stupid given a chance, haha at American Football being older than rugby, also "American" sports are only played by americans, exception being baseball which was created by a Brit anyway. I mean why call it football, you hardly use your feet at all. Football is what Europeans play and it sure is better than American Football.

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Karum - 467 days 14 hours ago

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Some people don't like football which is fine, I don't like American Football tbh, I find it incredibly boring. I've tried watching the Superbowl which is supposed to be the showpiece event of the NFL, assumingly the pinnacle of American Football to see what all the fuss is about and it starts and stops so much I can't see how anyone finds it exciting in any way shape or form. at the same time I also understand how some peopel might find football boring, it's all good it's down to preference.

I think though that what might effect that preference comes down to a difference in culture. During a recent discussion an American friend told me that Americans are suckers for a large spectacle, a large event which is what a lot of the likes of the NFL is. Football on the other hand, regular season matches aren't huge spectacles or events in the same conext as an NFL match may be. The NFL is a spectacle around a game, football for any real fan is a religion. You take a trip to cities like Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona or Athens to name only a small few and you watch how fans are in the week long build up to a big derby game and their reaction after it if they win or lose.

Football in Europe and South America is more than a game or a spectacle or an event, it's a religion in itself and a way of life both domestically and internationally, you just have to look at how seriously England fans take their national team. There is no other sport in the world that gets that kind of reaction or has that sort of passionate following, absolutely none whatsoever. Due to cultural differences many Americans will never understand this and along with not truly understanding the inner workings of the game itself is why America may never adopt football as one of their top sports. At least not until it becomes a lucrative sport in college like American Football is, if that ever happens.

Now as for the article I thought it was a decent read. The guy gave the game the props he felt it deserved which is impressive since the guy isn't even a football fan. Games are meant to be fun, this guy had fun with a sports game for a sport he doesn't even like.

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OldParr - 467 days 13 hours ago

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talking about getting things out of proportion anyway soccer is older than any popular sport out there and a few were inspire from it (basketball).anyways, i respect every sport because there is a physical or mental performance from the person playing it.soccer the one that i called football is the most fun for me due to the fact that i grew with and there is no time outs and if it is as easy as you think come on and give it a try.

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OldParr - 467 days 13 hours ago

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http://www.youtube.com/watc... there are no better fans than soccer fans and believe me is not as bore as u think.this is my team and we put heart in it

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Caph - 467 days 12 hours ago

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talking about discussion getting out of hands. (Btw, football is #1)

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TalyngarTheBlack - 467 days 11 hours ago

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Why the hate? As someone who loves american football (Chicago Bears, Florida Gators) and European Football (Aston Villa) I truly don't understand this us vs the world mentality i'm seeing from some Euro Footy fans. I get it, the game is very important to you as it is to me. But my #1 sport is American Football because that's what I grew up with. That's the game my family and I watched together and it is a passion that I will put up against any other group of fans. I invite you to attend a college football game in the South and compare it to a day at Anfield or Old Trafford. Just realize that whether its baseball, any form of football, basketball or any other sport fans are fans most likely because of generational support and nobody should be ridiculed for continuing family tradition.

Obama/Biden '08

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mariusmal - 467 days 10 hours ago

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the guy from kotaku thins football is boring because he watches MLS lol. i'm just saying it's not the best competitive championship.

it's like a north american seeing a european baseball game.. he would be bored to death.

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lipper - 467 days 7 hours ago

16.1 - actually...

Americans in general are not sports crazy & or passionate as European core sports, particularly soccer. - try going to Anfield, Fenebache, Milan or Barcelona ! Makes Basketball/baseball/American Football seem like a library full of of mutes.

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mariusmal - 467 days ago

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oh really ? i'm from portugal and i go to the stadium 2 times a month. i know how crazy we europeans can be.

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MRMagoo123 - 467 days ago

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All i can say is each to there own.

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