Whilst collisions are improved, the man in the middle still lets way too much go and will have you staring at your screen in disbelief as to what’s been deemed fair play. It’s curious that in a game that’s polished up its fluidity, the player switching isn’t as optimal as could be. Couple that with the fact they also struggle to keep up with an attacker in a foot race, and you soon realise that attacking in PES works a lot better than its defensive counterpart. Whilst a mix of closing down and Super Cancel allow you to manage most defensive situations, it’s the preceding inaction that causes stress.Ī lack of responsiveness in player switching will have you already on the back foot when you’re fully in control. Off-the-ball movement on defence will have you tearing your hair out. It’s a strange caveat choice of (non) control that I struggle with to this day. From the small, like how shielding the ball means not touching a thing on your DS4. I don’t think I’ve been bummed about a bad result because the play on the pitch was so engrossing and engaging.įor all the things it does so well, there are some counterintuitive traits to PES. Against a human opponent, the experience is amplified tenfold with momentum rocking to and fro throughout the match. The unpredictability of Manual passing means you’re able to push the ball into parts of the pitch the CPU hasn’t considered thus opening up the variety of attacking and defensive moments. Couple that with Manual Controls and you can really string together some gripping passages of play, playing how you want to play. Whilst the team management interface needs serious updating for future iterations, you’re still able to bend your starting XI to your will on the pitch. That fluidity is also the hallmark of the tinkering you can do from a tactical standpoint. Like many games in the series, the Season Update will take your delicate combinations of buttons and slight changes in direction and translate them into fluid offensive and defensive actions. Especially compared to FIFA which still has a lot of a float and glide feeling across the pitch, a miscalculation in its efforts to be smoother (not literally, EA!!). With the players feeling planted and the ball physics resembling those of an actual football, you immediately feel tied to your player’s actions. The metamorphosis of eFootball PES 2020 throughout all its update cycles. So what of the beautiful game? eFootball PES 2021 Season Update at its core is an amazingly engaging and challenging take on football. Instead, it highlights that content-wise, this is all we’re getting between now and the new game next year. So the immersion and relevance aren’t quite there just yet. The only standout is the Euro 2020 (now 2021) license which isn’t too exciting at the moment with the tournament proper many months away. With just a change of colour scheme to the same menus from its predecessor, you might as well be navigating PES 2020. The series has long been criticized for its staid look and feel, and this year’s edition is no better in that regard. With their focus now clearly on 2021’s release of PES on the Unreal Engine, what exactly are you getting for your buck right now? Refinements to what already was a compelling take on the beautiful game and not much else, unfortunately. They ran with the admission that not much would change in-game but we do at least get to enjoy the benefits of a polished up product at a lower price point. The folks at Konami must have seen this coming from a mile away ahead of the release of the eFootball PES 2021 Season Update. Sports gaming fans can be forgiven for being stuck in a state of Deja Vu in 2020 with regard to their favourite annualized sports title.
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