2.1. Classicos 2004 features
- 128 brand new teams - among nationals and clubs, from 1930 to 2000, chosen by objective criteria based in international titles in World Cup, European Cup, Copa America, Libertadores, UEFA, Cup Winners Cup and Champions League. Some teams that don't fit the criteria were chosen by it's historical relevance (ex: Cameroon 90).
- +3000 brand new players - Classicos is not an "update" patch like other patches. Classicos database is based on an entirely new set of info, players and stats.
- 100% classic kits - All teams feature classic kits approached to the era of each team, including referee kits.
- 100% classic boots - A coherent set of classical boots was prepared, to cover from the 30s brown shoes to the more recent lotto's and Adidas Copa Mundial worn by so many legendary stars.
- 100% Classic balls - Being limited to a 2 ball choice we had to go for 2 of the most classical views in the game: the adidas 74 and 78 telstar and an older model based on Santiago Chile ball, a brown leather ball (this one unlock able in WE Shop).
- Edited Training Ground - Hard ground, no grass.
- 100% edited menus - Prepared to make your gaming experience even more classical, featuring some of the most legendary stars of soccer history.
- Solidus Chants - Few teams carry them, but they are present in AC Milan, Brazil, Holland among others.
- Edited Music - Not all musics were edited, but expect edited tunes were it counts, namely:
- Main Menu - "Feijoada Completa", Chico Buarque (popular tune from WEC)
- Cup & League Menu - "Convite para a Vida", Cidade de Deus Soundtrack
- Replay - "Estória da Boca", Cidade de Deus Soundtrack
- Credits - "Nessun Dorma", Puccini (by L. Pavarotti, which he dedicated to Italy team in Italia 90 World Cup.
- Cup Victory – Italia 90 famous official music.
- Formation Menu - edited instrumental taken from Oceans Eleven Soundtrack
- Demo Game - Instrumental from "The History of Soccer" from Fremantle
- Classic Intro and Intro Screens - A Classicos 2004 exclusive intro plus edited intro screens.
2.2. Classicos 2004 Teams
IMPORTANT NOTE: Team names could not cope with all the dates we wanted to include. 80%-90% of teams include several years, ranging in a particular era which was historically relevant. So don't expect a line up of that particular year (alhtough you will find some like that, but expect players that have been around in a particular team during those years. As for the team name we often opted for an important year or a year in between the range of dates covered.
National Teams:
Argentina 30
Uruguay 30
Austria 34
Czechslovakia 34
Italia 34-38
Brasil 38
Brasil 50
Uruguay 50-54
Germany 54-58
Hungary 54-58
Spain 57-64
Brasil 58
France 58
Sweden 58
Brasil 62
Chile 62
Czechslovakia 62
Yugoslavia 62
CCCP 64-66
England 66
Germany 66
Portugal 66
Italy 68-70
Brasil 70
Germany 70-72
Peru 70
Uruguay 70
Brasil 74-78
Germany 74-78
Holland 74-78
Poland 74-82
Argentina 78
Italy 78-82
Belgium 80-86
Brasil 82
France 82-84
Germany 82-86
Portugal 84
Spain 84-90
Argentina 86-94
Brasil 86
France 86
Mexico 86-94
Holland 88
CCCP 88
Argentina 94
Cameroon 90
England 90
Germany 90
Italy 90-94
Yugoslavia 92
Brasil 94
Bulgaria 94
Sweden 94
Romania 94
COlombia 90-94
Secret Teams:
Denmark 86-92
Germany 92-96
Nigeria 94
Holland 94-98
Croatia 98
France 98-00
Brazil 98-00
Clubs:
Torino 42-49
Sporting CP 49-64
River Plate 40s
Madrid 56-66
Fiorentina 56-61
Barcelona 61
Penarol 59-67
Benfica 61
Santos FC 59
Palmeiras 72
Botafogo 62
Internazionale 64
Celtic 67
Rangers 67
Manchester Utd 68
AC Milan 67
Estudiantes de La Plata 68
Feyenoord 70
Ajax 71
Cruzeiro 66
Tottenham 84
Liverpool 77
C. Nacional F.Uruguay 71
Independiente 73
Bayern 74
Barcelona 75
Nottingham Forest 79
Bor. Monchengladbach 77
Boca Juniors 77
Hamburg 82
Liverpool 84
Flamengo 80
Aston Villa 82
Goteborg 87
Gremio Porto Alegre 81
Benfica 83
Juventus 85
Real Madrid 81
Porto 87
Barcelona 84
CA River Plate 86
AS Roma 84
Napoli 89
Milan 89
Sampdoria 88
Barcelona 92
Marseille 93
Parma 93
Milan 93
Ajax 95
Inter Milan 91
Dortmund 93
Juventus 93
Arsenal 94
PSG 96
Palmeiras 93
Fiorentina 97
S.Paulo 92
Vasco da Gama 97
Boca Juniors 98
Red Star Belgrade 91
Real Madrid 98
Manchester United 98
Corinthians 98
2.3. Production Notes
As you can imagine a patch like this one demands a huge research work. Please take that in notice when evaluating the stat and apearance work. It's sometimes dificult to correctly find data that helps us evaluating classical players and teams, or making their apearances. We did our best, and we will do best next time too.
Due to timming and resources we could not include all the things we planned. Here is a list of stuff we weren't able to include in Classicos 2004, hopefully will be a reality in Classicos 2005:
- Edited Stadiums
- Edited face textures
- Edited classic callnames
- Edited extra players for master league (Default ML Team / Free Players / Secret Players for We SHop)
- Edited Nationalities: you will see strange nationalities in players. We had to change them to avoid bugs, but had not time to edit last list, but that won't bother your playing experience.
As mentioned before we did include some chants, but due to the fact that many of the chants available are too recent and could damage the spirit of the game we opted to leave them aside.
You will notice some national teams don't show a shirt number, either front or back. We had to go for a transparent set in order to preserve the integrity of some kits which didn't feature this front number in the past. In far mode you will still see sometimes the numbers in the back of players shirts, due to a WE minor bug.
Also please take care in replacing Holland 88 kit number for the transparent model, we left the kit number orange to mix with the kit but if you rather not have any number at all or paint it in white please use the edit mode on this kit.
