Their mission is to provide up-to-date databases for old-gen PES2008 (for both the PS2 and PSP versions) and over the last half a decade, they did it brilliantly, accurately bringing the modern world of football into this attractive, older simulation. This is how the Laziale project was born. Oh, come on, calm down, breathe slowly and heavily, sit down if you’re not sitting already and listen: PS2 PES2008 would be a terrific Christmas gift on its own, but the Pro Evo community wanted to simultaneously improve upon that platform and, as a consequence of their work, do their best to popularize this virtual football experience that went under almost everyone’s radars. The whole PS2 PES2008 experience deserved to be included as yet another gift on the Libero Magazine’s Retro Christmas, for it is indeed a phenomenal football gaming experience which regretfully not many have ever played – the timing for the release of such an amazing simulation could not have had been worse, considering how awful the modern PES2008 was to this day, whenever football fans hear the words “Pro Evolution” and “2008” together, they have a panic attack.
