Today has been dominated with the news that Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series is being totally disbanded and replaced with something called eFootball, which will be a new free-to-play experience arriving this autumn.
The reception to the announcement has been somewhat mixed, but over at the PES Reddit community, there's admittedly been extreme negativity. PES fans have criticised everything from the apparent lack of offline game modes (at least at launch), to the fact that the new trailer's visuals don't match up with what Konami promised last year.
The graphical disappointment stems from an announcement Konami made back in July of 2020, where it was promised that the new game would benefit from 'realistic player models and animations', 'enhanced physics' and 'photorealistic visuals'. At the same time, a teaser image of Lionel Messi was unveiled, which you can see on the left above.
Of course, eFootball is still in development and could improve massively in the visual department before launch, but comparing the image on the left (unveiled last year) to the image on the right (unveiled today), it's certainly not a great look. Let's just hope the final game delivers on the pitch, which is ultimately what matters the most.
What are your thoughts on eFootball's visuals so far? Let us know in the comments.
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Better textures comes in lootboxes
PES has been dead for years and this new f2p model just shows us exactly that!
PES was always my go to game. Not having full licences never bothered me as it just played fantastically. Sadly I haven't touched PES for years now as it started to rapidly decline. FIFA I now tend to play on EA access (Game Pass) as all the in game purchases and for me doesn't feel much different each year. Shame as have great memories of beer filled evenings with me and my house mate hurling abuse at each other playing PES. One day someone will come up with a worthy challenger or Konami will wake up from its gaming coma.
Do Konami even care about making video games any more?
Yup, like I said in the other post. They gave up trying to keep up with FIFA. That's why they went F2P so they can keep the same, outdated iteration for long time... Konami keeping the total failure train chugging along...
@ChopperCampbell Right?! They are making the dumbest decisions on almost everything lately.
PES has always been dead and these animations are so bad, hopefully within a couple of years fifa get the licences back off pes
FIFA gameplay is just terrible as a representation of footy...anyone who genuinely think it's better I naturally assume are not a proper footy fan
And still, pound for pound Konami has delivered a FAR larger amount of more superior football games than EA ever will. For the absolute football fan and purist, there is no other choice but Pro Evo.
Damn the graphics, you wouldn't and shouldn't even have the time to look at player's faces if you're dribbling and passing balls around from one side to the other, while also trying to maintain a strategic oversight...
No, it's all about the mechanics and the gameplay, and in PES, these are still superior to EA's supernatural shenanigans: I've never seen someone sprint that fast in an actual live football match, and adding more tricks and loot boxes/micro transactions with every new iteration does also NOT a better game make...
Having said all that, looking at those stills isn't doing Konami any good. It looks more like as if Messi has been added as a bonus character to the undead horde of Left 4 Dead. Or maybe they added a zombie mode to PES...
@StylesT 👆 Anyone that harps on about PES being the real deal and FIFA being "not true football" obviously doesn't understand the mechanics of a football VIDEO GAME! That it differs massively from playing actual Football. Hence why Fifa is one of the best selling franchises of all time and PES has become this.
@Alan_cartridge_ Pes has been scoring higher than FIFA on metacritic more often than not or atleast around the same score despite Pes being paper thin on modes and licenses...the reason it scores so well is solely down to it's gameplay and it's the complete opposite reasons for FIFA....people who play FIFA tend to moan Pes sucks because they can't fathom build up play and have no patience....the last time FIFA actually put out a game you could say was better was all the way back at FIFA 14 and that's more down to Pes being not great and going through a transition period
Still better than Goemon.
I haven't played the game or series, so no baseline to go with. But judging by the pics, looks like they went with the "halo:infinite 'craig' upgrade"
When playing football games online, is it 11 v 11 or just 1v1?
I imagine there are loads of gamers out there, like me, who wouldn't pay for a full-price football game but will totally jump on this to play with their mates online.
I've played the last couple of FIFA games and the latest PES via Game Pass and to me PES is miles better in terms of gameplay. I always feel FIFA seems less natural - like a sanitised version almost where every pass seemed perfect and shots were always on target. PES has a little bit of randomness to it - where a players' touch would sometimes be a bit off or a pass would go astray if they are off balance or rushed. It just seems more realistic to me.
The overall presentation and graphics of FIFA are a lot better though - some of those player models in the career cut-scenes are nightmare fuel on PES, they just don't seem to be able to do mouths properly!
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