Whilst eFootball PES is the unappreciated underdog of the football genre, it has plenty to offer as we sign off on the current generation of consoles.
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The bottom line for fans of the FIFA series is that the first edition on the next generation of consoles has to have improved on-field action, and not just be another Ultimate Team cash-grab. If Madden NFL 21 is anything to go by, FIFA 21 will most likely be another fully-priced cash-grab that neglects the desires of its player base and fails to improve enough to warrant another premium price tag. With Madden being the only licensed NFL game, EA allowed themselves to fall into a repetitive funk of producing poor title after poor title. The NFL game has come under incredible scrutiny since its release, receiving an average Metacritic user score of 0.4 out of out 100. This approach by Konami has been well-received, unlike the continued approach of its main rival in the football game space.ĮA Sports have opted to release a new, full-priced title for FIFA, which arrives following the launch of another of their annual sports titles, Madden NFL 21.
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Is the cost-cutting update the way forward for football games? Those with a soft spot for decadent presentation and narratives, though, will be frustrated by eFootball PES 2020’s unwillingness to compete on those terms.Each of these editions costs £29.99 (€34.99/$34.99), regardless of the club selected. Players don’t seem to snap between canned animations anything like as much as in FIFA, and for eFooty purists that’s all that matters. They seem simply incapable of pouncing on the ball themselves, and there isn’t always time to select them and move them manually before the moment escapes.Īnd yet-how many times have you read this statement over the years?-PES still plays more convincing football than its rival. There's an odd dullness to AI players which isn’t entirely new but manifests itself in new ways thanks to the increased emphasis on tussles and loose balls pinging out of challenges. Ivan Perisic isn’t the only player to pass up an easy goal or watch a perfectly good pass roll inches away from his boots. The failings aren’t just surface-level, though. It’s endearing, in its own way, but it’s a world away from EA Sports' patented polish. There’s nothing here to contend with Alex Hunter's cheesy but luxurious cinematics, and the big new feature in Master League is the inclusion of wordless, faintly creepy cutscenes between your chosen manager avatar and other club staff.
Even aside from eFootball PES 2020’s scant licenses (which its community is already beavering away at remedying via option files), its presentation still feels forty or fifty years behind FIFA's. When it comes to problems, though, the song remains the same. This is the area that feels the most evolved from PES 2019 and its nigh-identical predecessor PES 2018, because it rewards proper body positioning and timing with some fantastic, varied deliveries, and also punishes artless taps of the cross button with demeaning scuffs. There’s an odd dullness to AI players which isn’t entirely new but manifests itself in new ways. That’s not to say it’s always a prettier one-for every new bit of bicycle kick mocap, an improvised finish, or a pass that would have been right at home in the Joga Bonito adverts, there are a legion of new ways to show players tussling with each other, miskicking the ball, stumbling, or crowding each other out. There’s an influx of new animations in all aspects of the game, and the end result is indeed a more realistic game of football.
What has changed, marginally but perceptibly, is what happens on the pitch. These things we know, of course: they’ve been that way since the formation of Pangea. Online multiplayer offers a new Matchday mode akin to limited-time raids in MMOs along with divisions, quick play and co-op.
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Don’t be eFooled though, the modes are just as they always were: Become a Legend zooms the microscope in on a single player and lets you live out a career-though nothing as choreographed as FIFA’s The Journey-while Master League’s there for longform pursuit of team glory in offline form, and M圜lub provides the real showpiece: a full-fat, menu-laden odyssey of online competition, team-building, and stat-padding.
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