Hey all, been a while since I posted, well actually not since the launch of eFootball instead of the next-gen stand-alone game we all anticipated. I even invested in a PS5 2.5 years ago purely because of the promised PES/eFootball with the photo realistic graphics etc...
I have been visiting the site every day though and reading all your comments and findings etc., but this version seems to have really got some complimentary comments and so....
.... after all that time I decided to download and try this game for the first time since it became the F2P model.
After some config changes to the pass level and such like, I played a few off-line friendly games and I was more than pleasantly surprised and had lots of fun and it doesn't look too bad, well not as bad as I expected it to on PS5.
I don't know what it says about me but I always liked both games, you know PES and that other one.
Enjoying the other one too right now with default sliders, until EA decide to ruin it all over the next 6 months of course, but the eFootball has been a very surprising discovery.
Some of those 'PES' moments we all enjoyed in the past made an appearance in the few games I played, like own goals, bookings and sendings off, rebounded free-kicks that went straight in past the wrong-footed goalie, I even got and conceded a penalty in the very first game I played.
Like all of you, the shameful lack of modes and in particular the off-line stuff is a real downer for me as I'm not one of the 'new crowd we're after' as Konami graciously stuck it up us all in 2021
Anyway, provided they don't ruin what I have been playing today, I think I may enjoy dabbling in this in the hope that they also bring us some off-line modes and DLC's even if we have to pay for them to use them. They can however, stick their pay to win and gambling services up them's backsides, deffo not interested in that at my age, i.e. I'm not under 14!
To those of you who are having fun with it already, I hope that continues for you all too, for those who may not have downloaded it maybe it's worth a try for you at least?
Peace to all!