While Konami evidently liked the idea of having proper songs, they must have reasoned that the best course of action was to have some original material written especially for the game. The music of PES 2008 though, represents an awkward transition phase, a halfway house between crazy drum and bass and bought-in pop-punk. Inevitably, this included replacing the bonkers techno that used to accompany the menu screens with a handful of licensed songs. Just as FIFA achieved its success by trying to be more like PES, so PES tried to win the crown back by being more like FIFA. As I mentioned in my main review, in many ways PES 2008 represents the last time the series was as it used to be.
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