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Codemasters Online Gaming remains cagey about the release date of Sensible World of Soccer.

Earlier this month producer Jim Brown told us the revamped retro classic would be out before the end of November. But when pushed today about whether this was still true, Codemasters Online could only offer than an announcement would be made in the coming days.

This could all be good news, of course, with the publisher keen to unveil its imminent release date to everyone at once. But we cannot help fearing the worst, like having an elephant trunk sloppily attached to our shoulder as we sleep.

Jim Brown told us everything was currently in Microsoft's hands, and SWOS simply had to clear the certification process before it could go on Live Arcade. However, we have seen this take a long time in the past - Jeff Minter and his troubled masterpiece Space Giraffe took weeks to clear.

We only speculate because we care, dear reader - Sensible Soccer was one of our (read: Kristan's) favourite memories ever. Pop over to our SWOS gamepage to see how it is shaping up.

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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #1 4 years ago

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It better be soon, but I fear a slip till next year.

Oh, and, er, FIRST!

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krudster #2 4 years ago

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For the love of all that is good, please release this. Jon Hare told me the other day that Mike Montgomery and John Phillips had been optimising the net code, which was the cause of the delay. Good that they're taking time to make sure it's right online.
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gizmo #3 4 years ago

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swoslol
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beastmaster #4 4 years ago

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Just hope it's better that the Speedball remake. And they've got rid of that bug which meant you could always score..
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M_Spitz #5 4 years ago

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Daddy, what's a Sensible Soccer?
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TedBaker #6 4 years ago

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So-chair!
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thedaveeyres #7 4 years ago

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I cannot wait for this. Please hurry up!
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morriss #8 4 years ago

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Rez HD
Ikaruga
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ZuluHero #9 4 years ago

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i couldnt wait for this and broke out the dusty old amiga from the attic. Its still as great as i remembered (a lot of rose-tinting going on these days) but the game play is still as great as ever.

And i don't even like football games!
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lennon #10 4 years ago

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It was one of the 10 free xbla games you could get with a friend offer but Microsoft mysteriously removed it. Either its going to be delayed or they suddenly realised it was likely to sell shedloads so though better of giving it away. Guess we will know soon.
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moggsy #11 4 years ago

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Minter's not going to be happy when this sells a million!
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weblaus #12 4 years ago

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Well, you could always play Sensible Soccer 2006 while you wait... according to some review I read somewhere it's a 9/10 game, after all.
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evild_edd #13 4 years ago

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@morriss

Your mere mention of Rez HD got my heart racing there!!!

All other releases are insignificant next to this.

SWOS may be the first footy game I actually buy, however, as I was overwhelmingly 'mehed' (if that's not a contradiction of terms) by this year's PES and FIFA releases. The Live demos of them, anyway.
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smelly #14 4 years ago

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Ah it's bound to be shite anyhows.

I mean, how hard can it be to write an amiga emulator?
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AZA #15 4 years ago

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@smelly

Dont play it then .

I myself am looking forward to it, though it is quite funny were all going be using a "next Gen" console play Sensi

Just goes show the golden years are behind us.

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krudster #16 4 years ago

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Not really, I suspect the online play is a draw for a lot of people.
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smelly #17 4 years ago

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I find it funny that a remake of the 2d amiga version has taken longer than the 3d "9/10" (LOL!) one last year...

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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #18 4 years ago

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@krudster

Interesting that Jon told you this...
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dllord #19 4 years ago

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Should be out before chrimbo then!

Hopefully!
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dllord #20 4 years ago

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Also, Sensi on the Amiga was the shit!
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mkreku #21 4 years ago

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This is the only football game I've ever liked.

Unless you count Speedball 2..
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smelly #22 4 years ago

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>Also, Sensi on the Amiga was the shit!

Erm, this is a port of the amiga version..
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jamespo #23 4 years ago

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looking forward to this, in the absence of the superior kick off
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jebus #24 4 years ago

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Well it's up on partner net and I played it yesterday and it was very good. Excellent in fact. Also had a quick game over the net and the network code seemed very strong. No lag whatsoever.
It seemed pretty much finished apart from the odd placeholder texture.

That is all.
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thehipster7 #25 4 years ago

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This one will be interesting, loved it back in the day, but will it seem dated like speedball2?

By the way after a nearly 2 months of play, this years FIFA is tops, PES just seems like a schoolyard kick around in comparision with poor off the ball runs, speedball like running and too much having to use super cancel.

FIFA in comparision is a thoughtful, reasonable sim of a game of football. More I play it the better it seems.
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dllord #26 4 years ago

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"smelly"

"The Shit" means Good by the way!
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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #27 4 years ago

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@jebus

Which odd placeholder texture? I played it and I can't remember a placeholder texture...
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chicknstu #28 4 years ago

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@smelly

"I mean, how hard can it be to write an amiga emulator? "

Go on then, give it a whirl and see how far you get
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lockload #29 4 years ago

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Its not just an amiga emulator thry have also coded the online play in the hative amiga language whatever that is..
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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #30 4 years ago

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@lockload

It's 68k ASM =o)
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smelly #31 4 years ago

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"Its not just an amiga emulator thry have also coded the online play in the hative amiga language whatever that is.."

lmfao! Erm.. yes.. of course they have.. Network code in 68! Ace!

You dont think that maybe perhaps they just wrote a wrapper to pass around button presses?

Actually it's probably more likely they converted the code line by line into c.
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LaundroMat #32 4 years ago

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SWOS most probably was written using a mixture of 68k ASM and C. The Amiga had specialised chips for audio & video, so at least all of the graphics code has to be rewritten entirely.

When Codemasters say the code has not been changed, I think they mean the gameplay algorithms (ball physics, players positions, etc) haven't been altered.

Also, introducing net code into the game doesn't just mean wrapping a few functions around the original code. Good online code is an integral part of the game code, not just a wrapper function.
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valensi #33 4 years ago

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If only Konami spent this long optimising online play...
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MGG #34 4 years ago

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@jamespo

Amen brother! KO2 and Goal were getting so much more playtime on my Amiga than Sensi ever did, but better than nothing, etc etc.

Dino! Stop teaching and do some XBLA!
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jebus #35 4 years ago

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@redneon

On most of the add hoardings pitch side. They have the texture resolution written on 256x32 and blocks of rgb
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Mr.Bergstrom #36 4 years ago

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What time on a Monday is it usually announced what the week's Live game is?
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Dodgymat #37 4 years ago

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Bad News : Asteroids this week

Good News : SWOS Dated for Dec 19th !
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