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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 With a lack of licenses for official teams, outdated visuals and mechanics, the series was languishing and would continue to do so for the next fifteen years.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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