Most goals just rely on the ball bouncing around and spluttering to a halt in front of your hapless striker. You can’t string together smooth passes to create goals to be proud of, long range shots are too timid to be worthwhile. There’s no way of playing a game of eFootball that feels satisfactory to me, as a football fan. Everything is far too slow, making for an unsatisfying experience. It reminds me of those old football game arcade cabinets I used to play as a kid. When holding down the sprint button, the players have an animation that shows that they’re sprinting, but they don’t actually go anywhere. Players feel like they’re constantly running through a thick porridge, yet the visuals on screen don’t match that at all. For the most part, it just feels like you’re kicking a concrete slab around under water. Gameplay is a mess, seemingly trying to create a hybrid of arcade football and realism. Admittedly, that’s an option that could be cured with a better resolution, but I don’t have that available to me.
Grass resolution is so low that the pitch just degrades into a green static blur when the camera moves. Players' models look stiff, all whilst wearing kits that look like they were crafted with cardboard. On the pitch, things don’t look much better. Every game starts with a strange cutscene where players step off the team coach looking like they’ve just shipped in from a rave fuelled by illegal narcotics. There’s nothing beyond that for this game on PC, it’s one or the other. It’s important to note at this point that eFootball runs at 1280p or 720p.
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I’m not sure why the online list is so different, or why offline is so limited, but going online is the only way to get full access to all the teams in eFootball 2022.Įither way we dip into an offline game to see how it plays. What I noticed before anything else is that the offline match only has nine available clubs, whereas the online mode seems significantly more varied. It’s bare bones off the bat, practically confirming the game's incomplete state. Once beyond the menu screen that Konami have so kindly redesigned for us, players will be introduced to two game modes online or offline.ĮFootball 2022 hasn’t launched with any career, tournament or league modes, with those expected to come later (at a cost). I could say Konami has improved the menus, but it’s not exactly the kind of improvement that deserves a roaring ovation. I usually start with positives in a review, but I’m not certain I can pull one out from the carcass of this game. Unsurprisingly, it lives up to the billing of a complete disaster quite well. So it’s clear Konami has done everything in the lead up to eFootball 2022’s launch to ensure the game will be a complete disaster. It was an issue EA had when moving to the Frostbite engine and the kind of change Konami themselves had struggled with countless times. Moving to another engine was just another set back, especially an outsourced engine that your team had never worked with before. PES 2021 was a great step forward for the series, and it seemed Konami had finally got their head around the Fox Engine. Another poor decision was moving away from the Fox Engine to make use of Unreal Engine 4. Konami’s move to rebrand PES as eFootball 2022 was short-sighted in many ways. Of course, at this point, the correct decision would be to rebrand your global franchise and create a new football game that relies completely on that online infrastructure. Whilst other big sports games were integrating online play to get friends playing together remotely, Konami was stubborn and could never truly create a fun online experience.
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One thing that has held down the series since the end of the PlayStation 2 era was Konami’s inability to create a successful online infrastructure. PES 2021 would be the final game before another rebranding. Even when the series began to find form, the damage was already done.
With a lack of licenses for official teams, outdated visuals and mechanics, the series was languishing and would continue to do so for the next fifteen years. Whilst EA would race away with their flagship football franchise, PES was stuck spinning its wheels in the mud. For most of the PlayStation 2’s lifecycle, PES would dominate FIFA, and would often be considered the superior footballing experience.Īfter the switch to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, Konami struggled to get PES up to par.
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After finding itself a niche market in the west, it would be rebranded internationally as Pro Evolution Soccer in the early 2000s. It was once a football game called Winning Eleven that focused on its domestic Japanese audience. Pro Evolution Soccer has been an interesting game for a while now. Reviews // 23rd Oct 2021 - 10 months ago // By Adam Kerr eFootball 2022 Review
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