PES 2010 - My first impression

I have been playing PES 2010 for a week now. It is the preview version and it is for PC platform.So this is not my final view on this game.

Let me tell you some good some OK and some bad stuff about this franchise.

The user interface, graphical developments are faboulous. The game looks really good and the font type, use of colours are simply amazing.

The version i have does not include UEFA Champions League, Europa League, some visuals are missing in the Master League and also there is no online mode available.

The dribbling system changed in a way. It is more realistic now. However it effects the playability. It is really hard to dribble. The players accelerate more realistically. Again a problem for action lovers. PES 2010 is more of a simulation this time.

The position you play your players effect their ability. If you put a winger to a defensive midfield position he looses quite a big amount of his ability.  You see the ability with numbers up to 100. It drops around 10-20 points per player when you misposition them. There is a card and slider system as well. I will write another article or share a video about that. I can tell that you will be spending much more time in formation screens this year.

The loading screen is gone. When you start the match via a "Quit Watching" tab you start to see the stadium you will be playing in. Then comes the players from tunnel and match starts. I have not seen a big improvement in fan animations.

In the version i had the latest transfers were not in place yet. Such as Zlatan in Barcelona.

Be A Legend mode is more detailed. The camera angles are really well implemented. It is a great mode to play this time.

I will continue to update you with my impressions. It is to early to grade this game. Now i wait for FM 2010 review code. I will write down my impressions of that game in the weekend.

Moleskine Art by Datafobik

This will be some kind of an ad however the efforts spent in it deserves a special applause. Therefore i would like to share these cool Moleskine notebooks with you.

The covers are created by Datafobik, whom i know of from MYK Medya. She is very talented, check out Yahoyt Magazine for instance. She contributes to that as well. Now she is sharing her talent with everybody with a small price to pay.

What Datafobik does is this; You submit your picture to her and she draws a portrait of you on a Moleskine notebook and sends it to you. It is a great birthday present for someone you know. It also is a great collectible item. I will try to trick her into doing series of design for collectible purposes.

Anyway here on this page. Emeksensin.com. You can find out all her designs. Some of them are brilliant. Such as Street Fighter paintings. I love creative stuff and Datafobik's works are standing out...

Watching Messi

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I watched Lionel Messi in a stadium first time in 2005 in Netherlands. He was cruising with Argentina U20 National Team. Turkey was waiting to play against Spain and Argentina beat Colombia 2-0. Messi was amazing that day. I knew that he was exceptional that time but the margin between him and other players were not that big.

In Super Cup i watched him once again and i was really surprised. He is still skinny and small however his talents and capacity almost tripled in four years. I have known that he improved drastically but seeing this improvement with my own eyes was special. He was the only one worth watching during the final and he deserved a big applause in the end.

Inception Trailer

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Your mind is the scene of the crime. I look forward to that movie which is due to come in Summer 2010. Director is Christopher Nolan and Leonardo Di Caprio is the lead actor.

Notes from Monaco

- UEFA Super Cup is a cool event. The teams are good. But something is missing. The players do not take it that seriously. UEFA has to look and find that missing thing.

- Stade Louis is terrible. In such a rich city that stadium is a disgrace. The pitch was not good as well. It affected Barcelona's play.

- I watched the match with CNN's European sports correspondent Pedro Pinto. He is a nice guy with a vast knowledge on Turkish football. When we got bored we talked on Turkish football, Emre Belözoğlu, Hakan Şükür, Arda and Nihat.

- The draw ceremonies were brilliant. The stage was amazing. Pedro hosted the Champions League draw with a girl called Melanie. She looked beautiful and tall on stage but afterwards she left the exhibition center with jeans, a  tshirt and a cap. Not that attractive.

- Joan Laporta is brimming with confidence. He is always cheerful. He was the star of all the events. He pays close attention to Lionel Messi all the time. As if someone is going to steal him.

- Edwin van der Sar who is very tall is married to a woman of average height, around 1,60. Vitor Baia is trying to be a football executive. Paolo Maldini who will certainly be a UEFA President one day was smiling all the time. Luis Figo may have a slight problem with English.

- Emilio Butragueno shared his drive with us back to the hotel. The girl driving the car has not noticed who he is as she was pretty young. That created a funny moment. However Butragueno is really modest. He will soon be coming to İstanbul again.

-France Football Federation President walked all the way between la Meridien and Grimaldi Forum despite his age. He never asked for a car. And he was in the back seat of the bus that took us to stadium in the evening.

-Michel Platini was friendly to everybody. He had fun. He gets bored easily in receptions and ceremonies.

- Monaco is a city composed of cars and girls(looking for rich guys). However the architecture and sea is great.

- The weather was really hot when we got there. Le Meridien's lack of internet was the other major issue.

- The referee Frank de Bleeckere was terrible. Shakthar deserved to win at some point.

- I tweeted all the events during the 3 days which was really satisfying. I used an N97 all the time. The battery life of that phone is an issue. You can follow me on Twitter.