Cristiano Ronaldo to be face of PES 2008

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Jul 10, 2007 11:48 am PT

The Manchester United midfielder will be the pan-European face of the latest incarnation of Konami's sports game.

Back in May, Brazilian sportsman Ronaldinho was revealed as the star of the box art for FIFA 08 for the third year running, along with becoming a Mii in-game in the Wii version. Now Konami has announced its own star for rival footie title Pro Evolution Soccer 2008--Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo will be joined by "selected local talent" whose names will be announced at a later date.

A virtual Ronaldo shows off his ball skills.

Ronaldo was born in Portugal, and started playing football when he was only three years old. The now-22-year-old plays for the Portuguese national squad, as well as Manchester United--where the youngster took over the number 7 shirt previously held by David Beckham. He won both the Professional Footballers' Association's 2007 Player and Young Player of the Year awards.

PES 2008 will offer a number of extra features over the previous incarnation of the game--Pro Evolution Soccer 2007--including a new Teamvision AI system, and extensive edit options in the next-generation game versions.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 is due for release in Autumn for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS in Europe. No North American date has yet been set, but previous PES games have shipped on the continent several months after their European release.

97 Comments

  • Alex7992

    Posted Sep 4, 2007 12:28 pm PT

    I don't hate Lampard as hate is a strong word, I just think he is seriously overrated. In the last world cup he was awful (I went, I should know). And as a season ticket holder at Manchester United Ronaldo hardly dived if he did at all. Admitted when he first joined Man Utd he dived a lot but Wayne Rooney argued with the referee much more than he does now but Sir Alex stopped it. Michael Owen used to be called a diver for Liverpool but the truth is players like Ronaldo are so fast (like Owen used to be) that only a slight nudge could send them way off balance. Drogba is a diver but he dives less know so you can't call someone a diver because they get a lot of freekicks for their team. Congrats to Ronaldo. Plus PES cant get every player they want on the cover.

  • Seifer_Almasy_1

    Posted Sep 1, 2007 2:19 pm PT

    here we go, another guy jumping on the 'i hate lampard' truck, do me a favour, dont listen to the hype, but actually go and find out how much that guy has contributed to chelsea's cause, over the last god knows how many years, lampard is one of the best midfielders, what he does aint stylish, aint pretty, but he always gets the job done, this is why teams like barcelona want him...everyone probly heard bout ronaldinho goin to chelsea next yr...wouldn't surprise me if lampard "coincidently" went the other direction

  • samisonfire

    Posted Aug 27, 2007 8:47 am PT

    Seifer_Almasy_1, i can understand your point tht Christiano Ronaldo isnt the only good player out there ... but you could have actually put some thought into the players you listed there ... i mean, lampard , seriously, what were you thinkin ?

  • Seifer_Almasy_1

    Posted Aug 23, 2007 3:21 pm PT

    instead of naming players who u claim to b "complete" i will name players who are influential no matter what opposition they face

    messi
    arteta
    essien
    lampard
    gerrard
    drogba
    fabregas
    berbatov
    richards
    scholes

    ai can go on all day but i wil leave it there, realise that ronaldo is ONE of many high quality players right now, and he is not THE BEST PLAYER in the premiership let alone the world.

  • Seifer_Almasy_1

    Posted Aug 23, 2007 3:17 pm PT

    "For the people who says Cristiano Ronaldo suck and dont deserve the cover i just want let u know that u dont understand a thing about soccer cristiano is one of the most complete players in the world he is tall he is fast he is one of the best in the world dribling he is strong he can do long shoots he can win ball in the air and he wasnt the best scorer in premiership but he is a WINGER not a striker soo if u say he sucks tell me one player more complete than him excluding Kaka"

    first of all its not soccer, its football, long shots??? how many long shots has he scored?? do you know?! cos i live in england and watch the premiership and trus me he dont score many, strong??? he has good balance but he is not strong, that is why when he is marked by an experienced, STRONG defender he is not influential and instead opts to win freekicks by sucking in fouls or diving.

  • Raidor_Sena

    Posted Aug 22, 2007 9:57 pm PT

    For the people who says Cristiano Ronaldo suck and dont deserve the cover i just want let u know that u dont understand a thing about soccer cristiano is one of the most complete players in the world he is tall he is fast he is one of the best in the world dribling he is strong he can do long shoots he can win ball in the air and he wasnt the best scorer in premiership but he is a WINGER not a striker soo if u say he sucks tell me one player more complete than him excluding Kaka

  • xRobinho10x

    Posted Aug 19, 2007 9:54 am PT

    f*ck it congrats to ronaldo but whos gonna join him as "selected talent"

  • matty_sen

    Posted Aug 18, 2007 8:53 pm PT

    hes a -puff?, u dnt put puffs on the cover of games?

  • Seifer_Almasy_1

    Posted Aug 18, 2007 2:58 am PT

    Christiano is one of the best, if not thee best player in the world at the moment. Why not have him on the cover? And to all those people whinging, its a COVER! Get over it!

    anyone who says thing like this clearly have NO understanding of football and probably dont even watch the team they support. how can u say he's the best player in the world!?!?! wot u mean to say is he is the best attacking midfielder/winger in the world, and even that is NOT TRUE, there a far better players than him, but u guys see some step overs and then u ejaculate dont? u guys r idiots, TRULLY!

  • Seifer_Almasy_1

    Posted Aug 18, 2007 2:53 am PT

    fuzzibluedude Ronaldo is one of the Top 3 players in the world you Fool, one good season, do you know anything about football you tool. let me guess a liverpool fan ?

    TOP 3 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD!?!?!?......UR AN IDIOT

  • Eddie-Vedder

    Posted Aug 17, 2007 8:16 am PT

    He deserves it, if he keeps playing the way he has been playing the last few years and doesn´t suffer any major injury, he´s on the path of becomming one of the greatetest if not the greatest player of all time, I used to hate him cause he looked like a bimbo lol, but the dude just plays to well not to like him.

  • wars45

    Posted Aug 17, 2007 3:26 am PT

    dam it i hate the guy but then agin i hate him becues he plays for man u hate them but i love pro woo bring it on now am online cant wight to play it online woooooooo

  • carewisonfire

    Posted Aug 16, 2007 9:06 am PT

    Christiano is one of the best, if not thee best player in the world at the moment. Why not have him on the cover? And to all those people whinging, its a COVER! Get over it!

  • tomorules29

    Posted Aug 10, 2007 2:05 am PT

    im glad he is on the cover and im an arsenal fan, i want to see gerrard on there as the local player like terry was last year, just ope they dont make him like adriano like the last go cuz he was completly over-rated he cant even get into brazils first team in real life lol

  • aurimace

    Posted Aug 5, 2007 3:37 pm PT

    will be better than fifa becouse of new AI anyway better than fifa08

  • karrot_07

    Posted Aug 1, 2007 4:54 pm PT

    Christiano Ronaldo is awesome, IMHO only Kaka is a better player than him right now, great move Konami.

  • joeyd66

    Posted Aug 1, 2007 10:32 am PT

    hopefully ronaldo wont be a super player like adriano was last year

  • dubsbr

    Posted Jul 24, 2007 1:17 pm PT

    i dont actually think piciking cristiano ronaldo was a bad deal, but there are other for the job, like messi, ronaldinho gaucho, henry, trezeguet, robinho and alexandre pato
    i just hope the game is better than wepes 2007 was

  • wowgod

    Posted Jul 23, 2007 4:02 pm PT

    i need to disagree with every1 saying adriano was a superman in the last game. i scored much more goals with ibrahimavich in the last game henry though was a pain he could score ott goals all game long

  • renesito

    Posted Jul 21, 2007 10:43 pm PT

    Putting C. Ronaldo was the worst thing Konami has ever done. I honestly don’t want a cry baby in front of such a good game. I won’t be able to play the game because I will be constantly bursting into laughter as I look at his watery eyes. They should have gone with Kaka. But I bet C. Ronaldo cried and beg to be in there, plus he is a cheap whore.

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