I also love the new game. Everything I hated on PES21, they fixed. Ping-pong passes gone, dribbling is back, defending takes skill, no more scripting.
Graphics are bad and sometimes there are some weird animation glitches, but these can easily be fixed.
Gameplay is top. I win every game with 5+ goals in multiplayer because skill actually wins you games. In most games the opponent doesn't get a single shot on my goal.
Just don't play it like PES21 and have an open mind.
Exactly my thoughts.
What is better in ef2022 compared to Pes2021:
- Ball is way more free and separate entity and has better physics.
- Lots of animations, more seamless transitions
- Better body postures in turning, small tapping steps to stop or change direction
- Slow motion goalkeeper dives are gone!
- Slow motion shooting inside the box is now gone!
- Stealing (standing or sliding tackle) the ball is very physical and unpredictable, yet buggy

. In Pes 21 was precanned with the same exact result almost every time.
- Collisions are buggy for sure, but its proof that there are some physics implemented there (like PES 2014). Pes 2015-2021 physics was like bottles colliding.
- Passing and shooting feels realistic and not like cannon balls.
- Cpu does dribble the ball, almost plays like human! Until now, in all previous PES the Cpu was constantly attacking with passing, and almost no dribbling with the ball at all. (You can judge from the match stats)
- Better running animation, with speed variety
- Better player models, and cloth animation
- A lot on upredictability and randomness (sometimes too much

) compared to repetitive and linear gameplay of previous PES.
- Excellent pace with variation.
- It rewards more tactical and patient build up, it punishes run and gun style.
- I think its way more responsive. Considering the more realistic and complete animations which means more time to be executed.
Its the most next gen game of soccer, in gameplay terms, if we exclude the physics bugs/glitches.
Graphics have nice lighting, but awful grass texture and aliasing issues are really prominent and ugly.
Net physics are maybe the worst i have seen in a football game.
Crowd is clearly ex-gen and low quality.
Sound is decent, nothing special.