Now we hope that you can enjoy this brand new football experience that eFootball™ has to offer.Īt launch, eFootball will feature exhibition matches and a selection of 9 clubs to play, with other modes offered as optional DLC down the line. To signal this new era, we have decided to part ways with our beloved PES brand and rename it “eFootball™”! We had gone beyond the border of PES, into a new realm of virtual football.
The final result was even more impressive than we had originally conceived. To this end, we decided to create a new football engine, with revamped animation system and game controls. Our ambition was to recreate the perfect football environment, from the grass on the pitch, to the players’ movement, all the way to the crowds in the stadium. It all began with the implacable determination to create a revolutionary football experience. In a statement on the change, Konami writes: There will no longer be paid annual releases, but there will still be yearly updates for new seasons, and certain content locked behind a pay wall. It really sucks to be a fan of the Italian, Spanish and Belgian leagues right now.Going forward, eFootball will be a game of continual evolution, as a ‘platform’ with regular updates. Sadly, almost as many major leagues aren’t getting the all-important freshen up until 22nd October – over a month post-release.
Many of the kits and squad rosters are updated through the base game and a patch at launch, ensuring the top two tiers of English football, Scottish Premiership, Russian League, the Portuguese Liga NOS and more are akin to their real-world counterparts.
Quite clearly the main reason folks may be enticed to acquire the PES 2021 Season Update is to play with up-to-date teams and such.
Essentially it’s an offline tournament, which isn’t overly enthralling, but at least you can attempt to lead England to glory ahead of the actual tournament next year – where we’ll inevitably get knocked out after a Pickford disasterclass. Fortunately you can access the official tournament again here, with all the featured teams and Euro 2020 branding.
One thing early adopters of PES 2020 might have missed out on is the free UEFA Euro 2020 content that arrived in June. At the end of the day though, these are simply avatars for the cutscenes so it’s not that big of a deal.Īs for the other game modes, like Become a Legend, m圜lub and Matchday, it’s just business as usual. Visually, they look damn good, with Pep looking about ten years younger (he’s got hair!) as it is clearly modelled on his days in charge of Barcelona.
There’s the ‘Welsh Wizard’ Ryan Giggs, ‘Super’ Frank Lampard and the best chequebook manager in recent years, Pep Guardiola. Now for the slightly better additions involving Master League mode, which has received not one, but three extra managers to choose from – don’t all cheer at once eh. Nevertheless, gameplay is pretty good on the whole as the bar was set fairly high last time. The shooting feels a tad too arcade-y and easy too seeing Aaron Wan-Bissaka scoring top corner rocket shots from weird angles tells you that. Whether intentional or not from Konami, this leads to even more occasions than before of players idly standing by watching passes slowly roll away from their feet like they’ve had a ‘senior moment’ and forgotten where they are. What becomes immediately apparent is an alteration to the trapping of balls at players’ feet. But let’s go over the changes, however minor, to the gameplay, which for the most part is still fluid and exciting offline while coming across as a little sluggish in the online realm.