Opinion: Efootball 2022 is a foul on the loyal PES

From PES will be efootball, it s on the official site by Konamis Free-to-play football simulation Efootball 2022 . This message was a shock for damped fans, she went back with the change from full price to the free game with service center and microtransactions.

But in such a change, there are also a lot of opportunities, after all, Konami took time for the publication of Efootball 2022 . Last year, the series made a break and instead there was only a Season Update with updated data for Efootball PES 2021 and only a few innovations.

On September 30, 2021, almost simultaneously with the Platzhirsch FIFA 22 , Efootball 2022 went to the start and immediately became the toughest criticized game of the year. On Steam, the negative user reviews already worked: The worst football match I ve ever played , the gameplay is worse than ever before and what a pile of garbage are just some of the comments of the community.

And even if these ratings are often personally emotional and anything but objective, the anger is understandable: Konami goes Efootball 2022 to the start of the wall and throws the tradition of a Pro Evolution Soccer for the cliff!

To start too little content

Also, I am more than shocked about the condition and, above all, the conception, with which Efootball 2022 comes to the market. The fact that the game would be a construction site that Konami would slowly feed on the months to a finished football match was clearly clear at the presented roadmap.

Efootball 2022 starts with the friendly match between Argentina and Portugal - for hot games. The Clou: Both teams are no longer selectable after this match. For local matches, Launch is just nine teams to choose from: Manchester United, Arsenal, FC Bayern Munich, Juventus Turin, FC Barcelona, ​​Flamengo, Sao Paolo, Corinthians and River Plate. In the first event Wordwide Clubs are other teams ready, but you have to decide for a team here for a team and will not change.

For the future Konami already promised other free teams and content, but also paid elements such as the popular master league. At the start, Efootball 2022 looks like a huge shear pile of a few genuine content, promises, and above all the fear that here the microstransaktions will dominate the game fun.

In any case, Efootball 2022 offers too little content - even for a free-to-play game. Too few teams, barely settings and little tactical options: Efootball 2022 is a pretty packed for starting. The community had obviously expected more.

Broken or a feature?

But the small size is still the smallest problem. In the social media channels ghosts already the most iridescent bugs and glitches. An referee who ghosts like a flat fish under the lawn or players whose limbs stretch in contact and cause wild dislocations. Konami pays a high price for the change from the in-house Fox to the popular Unreal Engine.

And I also heard mistakes in the denied games. For example, defenders are repeatedly approaching with an affinity of ball-leading player after being tricked out. The players slides more about the lawn, as if they really have a firm stand and the collisions sometimes look more than strange and, above all, not 100 percent comprehensible.

PES fans mourn their favorite game behind

The biggest problem but represents the wastingly repeated gameplay behind Efootball 2022 . Especially in the local friendly game, this kick is hardly beaten to toughness. Konami throttles the pace for more realism, but at the same time fits the standard camera so that it robs an almost any overview in Dribblings and zooms close to the action. Players are barely free, the passball game is terrifying imprecise and the ball alone weighs 200 kilograms. Efootball 2022 loses the ease and traceability of former offshoots.

Granted if the online game works against other people thanks to modern server problems, then Efootball 2022 is a touch better. Finally, these act faster and are also better in the position match. Especially aspects like the physical defense come here to carry here. Nevertheless, however, it remains far behind the expectations, the possibilities and the predecessors. It feels like work with the ball and invites neither playful experiments, nor it rewards them. Instead, there are plenty of stolen, mistakes and innovations such as the said physical defense that could be good, it would have been optimized for all modes.

Efootball 2022 breaks so hard and mercilessly with the Pro Evolution Soccer - as that faithful fans could kick the ball over the green here calm conscience. Instead, Konami does not only write in the technology, but also in the gameplay - the previous parade discipline. Together with the initially explained free-to-play model one plays the deadly game fun pass and shoots itself completely in the away.

Other messages on Efootball:

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I herself pursue Konamis football ambitions since the Blessed days of International Superstar Soccer and I went the way from Pro Evolution Soccer with all its heights and depths. Efootball 2022 makes me sad and angry at the same time, because it was developed to the own target group. Therefore, the game now suffers rightly shipwreck. Konami will have all the hands full of doing this steamer again seaworthy ... if it succeeds the team behind it.

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