PES 6 online

As of yesterday I was the 4th best Pro Evolution Soccer 6 player in the world. Yup, I'm officially great. Or maybe not. The game hasn't been released yet so there were only 30 people in the rankings, but I'll take the glory while I can. By the evening of release day - Friday 27th October - I fully expect to be back down in the thousands again. Perhaps more interesting though was the actual online experience. All the games I played were essentially lag free and a big improvement on the initial PES5 online experience. Sadly the rest of the experience - setting up games, inviting friends etc - was disappointingly rudimentary. Unless I was missing something there didn't even seem to be an option to replay an opponent straight after a game other than going back to the "top menu" - or "main menu" in non-Konami English - and creating a new match. Hmm. Maybe we'll have to wait for PES7 before we get the co-op, leagues and other stuff that we've come to expect from online gaming in 2006.