Shut Up Sylvia

How many of you remember Screamer? What about Screamer 2? Rally? anyone?

Well I do. I loved those games. I remember playing Screamer 2 on a Pentium 120 MhZ that could barely run it in low res.

Once the development of Screamer was completed, Milestone - the Italian developer - moved on to great things and started working on the official Superbike games for EA. I bought the first one when it came out in ‘99 and it was just great. Unfortunately many people around the world didn’t agree with me and the game was eventually dropped after an even more unpromising sequel.

Milestone is back.

They have been hard at work on the new chapter for a long while and this time EA is not involved so we might just see a decent game.
When two weeks ago HMV’s website reported that the game was going on sale in just one week an unduly excited Stefano presented himself at a store in Oxford street ready to plunk down some of his cash to grab a copy.
It just wasn’t there. I searched and searched, People must have thought I was going mental as I kept walking along the same shelves over and over again.

Where the hell is my effin’ game!?

Yesterday night I finally took the time to check a few sites. I’m sad to report that there seem to be some confusion on the release date of the PS3 version.

Amazon.co.uk: September 30, 2008
Amazon.com: Game doesn’t exist
GameStation (high street store): Game doesn’t exist
HMV.co.uk: 1-8-2008
Play.com: 26/09/2008
Game.net: 01/09/2008

As far as I can see the official distributor for the game in Europe is BlackBean. Also, as far as I can see, BlackBean is completely useless and wouldn’t be able to organize a piss-up in a brewery.
Additional evidence to BlackBean ineptitude is provided by the fact that a patch for the game is available on the official website while the PC version has not been released yet, at least according to amazon.co.uk.

Let’s just hope that some bright spot in Italy or wherever BlackBean is picks up my case.