I just fired eFootball up after many, many months and I have to say I agree with this. The gameplay feels like it’s come quite a way from where it was. From my little time with it, I would say overall the positioning/spacing/behaviour/variety is much better than pes 2021. The retreating is gone and it forces you to think a lot more when playing the ball through midfield. The CPU also plays much more football, there’s no 2 passes and long ball. I find the pressing to be much improved too and quite intelligent.
These are obviously early impressions, but I like to just put a game on and see how much it forces me to think and play football. This has done that, so that’s a big positive.
I haven’t followed the progress for a while, but is there any talk about when we’ll at least get some more features unlocked? Why are they still locked?? So confused.
I agree with you.
Since November of launch, I think I've played about 10 hours. I hadnt touched it at all since the very beginning of the world cup last November.
I tried it a week.ago and was surprised at how impressive certain aspects were....essentially everything you mentioned above.
I'd also mention the graphics on ps4 pro. In the majority of stadiums, summer evening looks really.very good. Pitch colours are very good at times, and even the kit colours for fake teams are good. The crowd is still abysmal.
It looks and feels like football, and there seems to be player ID at work too, definitely in movement and kicking actions, possibly in stats, but hard to say with such limited ball physics.
If is all they did between now and the apocalypse was to implement proper ball physics, it would be a relatively impressive free demo.
There are still clearly a raft of issues, in both gameplay and wider options. The catch up bug is egregious, the lack of tactical options intolerable. The lack of options full stop is incomprehensible two years later, unless of course you place yourself in konami's shoes: maximum profit, minimum expense.
Now I'm not saying this is an exceptional game of football, far from it and although I can see things to admire, I can happily go days without touching it. But...there are some really essential things that konami have got right here, that have never been this right in any football game. When you play, it looks and feels like a proper football match, without any need to touch sliders (not a dig in any way at fifa slider legends).
There are clearly some highly and even usually talented developers/programmers in that konami dungeon. They have replicated the positional movements of real football surprisingly well, given the lack of budget.
It's a shame those achievements are lost in what is a pretty empty game, without any real advancement in player or ball movement or any real moment to moment detail on the pitch.
