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damn… the game is already beautifully ready and packaged, it’s just that they are delaying the distribution of the PS2 version to avoid "getting messed up" (that’s what the shopkeeper told me) like last year.

Iside maybe: I called my little shop yesterday and they confirmed November 5th... tomorrow (actually, today) it releases for PS3 and X360... cursed Next Generation.

And I correct my comment on 102: in '98 Konami did not release WE4 but IssPro 98, the one with Ravanelli and Ince, which in the Japanese version I believe was WE3. The legendary WE4, a true cornerstone in the history of football video games, was released in August '99, but became "public domain," so to speak, in the fall (at the time there was no internet, just magazines costing 5-6000 lire and word of mouth, so news traveled much slower, especially if it was an import game), while EA dealt itself a final blow with that other crap Fifa2000...

@Caz, did you see? Now I'm gonna try this triangle thing too, but... oh, when does Pes 2010 come out for Ps2?

I quote those who said that, amidst all the Sanremo muck, Alex Baroni was one of the few who could stand out. I admit that I often think of him; after all, he was a young man who couldn't express all his potential, nor, much more simply, enjoy the luck of doing that job. I appreciated Alex Baroni even before he died; he had a voice capable of transforming lyrics that someone might call trivial (Ce la farò, Cambiare, Onde, which I actually like anyway) into genuinely moving pieces.

So let's clear things up: for a while, Konami published TWO games. The Japanese company was divided into two sections, KCEO, which created ISS, the arcade game with all completely made-up players (I remember a Ferreira from Brazil, a blond defender), and KCET, which developed another game also called ISS, but with the added word PRO, more simulation-oriented, featuring real players with only their names altered. And it is this, ISS PRO, that would later become PES (Winning Eleven in the Japanese version) that we all know and upon which we’ve worn down our thumbs for over ten years. The other ISS, the KCEO one, the arcade version with fictional players, was obviously destined for the scrap heap in no time.

A game that turned out to be crap from the very start, even without comparisons to competitors, which didn’t exist back then, in fact. I remember when my friend passed me the burned CD, and in front of my anxious, expectant smile, he froze me by saying, "Just so you know, it’s bad"... but how was that possible? Fifa98 was cute, and the World Cup98 edition had turned out to be the best version of Fifa up to that point... and with chapter 99, what did they do? Took three steps backward? A completely unplayable mess, frantic, unrealistic, graphically unwatchable, a game where you hold down x and the ball automatically passes between players until it reaches the goal. With Fifa99, millions of gamers actually made the big leap to that little gem that was IssPro98 (the one with Ravanelli and Ince on the cover), which, thank God, was released right around that time, never to part ways with the Konami saga again. The Fifa series after this chapter officially became the game for "bimbiminkia," kept afloat in sales by snot-nosed kids who get excited if they score from midfield with Gattuso or with a bicycle kick from outside the box with Corradi, but consistently overwhelmed technically by the rival Konami, the only true title capable of creating the sensation of a soccer match and not just a soccer video game. This lasted until the latest editions where, finally, the EA title seems to have closed the gap with Pes, settling into a position of ideal qualitative parity, but that took ten years of kicks in the mouth from the Canadians and the migration of a few programmers from Pes to Fifa. I don’t know how you can give a score of 4 to a game where "substitutions don’t matter" and "the ball sticks to your foot," maybe you’re one of those bimbiminkia mentioned earlier. Ah, the ball in Fifa remains a helium-inflated supertele, just like in '98. Looks like we need the programmer for the ball too.

A game that turned out to be crap from the very start, even without comparisons to competitors, which didn’t exist back then, in fact. I remember when my friend passed me the burned CD, and in front of my anxious, expectant smile, he froze me by saying, "Just so you know, it’s bad"... but how was that possible? Fifa98 was cute, and the World Cup98 edition had turned out to be the best version of Fifa up to that point... and with chapter 99, what did they do? Took three steps backward? A completely unplayable mess, frantic, unrealistic, graphically unwatchable, a game where you hold down x and the ball automatically passes between players until it reaches the goal. With Fifa99, millions of gamers actually made the big leap to that little gem that was IssPro98 (the one with Ravanelli and Ince on the cover), which, thank God, was released right around that time, never to part ways with the Konami saga again. The Fifa series after this chapter officially became the game for "bimbiminkia," kept afloat in sales by snot-nosed kids who get excited if they score from midfield with Gattuso or with a bicycle kick from outside the box with Corradi, but consistently overwhelmed technically by the rival Konami, the only true title capable of creating the sensation of a soccer match and not just a soccer video game. This lasted until the latest editions where, finally, the EA title seems to have closed the gap with Pes, settling into a position of ideal qualitative parity, but that took ten years of kicks in the mouth from the Canadians and the migration of a few programmers from Pes to Fifa. I don’t know how you can give a score of 4 to a game where "substitutions don’t matter" and "the ball sticks to your foot," maybe you’re one of those bimbiminkia mentioned earlier. Ah, the ball in Fifa remains a helium-inflated supertele, just like in '98. Looks like we need the programmer for the ball too.

I would say that I agree with Dizionariorock.

"There have been and there are still convinced and true pacifists, people who perhaps do not protest under the safety of their own homes, but where one dies under bombs—there is no doubt about that. But they were there even before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they are still here now." As a side note, these are the ones who have all my respect and admiration.