Yes, it’s a little time consuming, but once complete, it really adds to the authenticity and overall feel, like you have a perfect football game on your hands. With not too much digging online (with some already available at the time of writing), players can easily find some saint from the internet who has knocked up the official kits for all the unlicensed teams, and put them out there on the word wide web for the world to enjoy. However, to combat the lack of licenses, Konami have made the edit mode as detailed and as simple to use as they ever have, going as far as including a guide within the game of how to import a team from an option file. So Merseyside Blue have now become Everton B, for example. At least this year they’ve finally had the sense to name teams simply where they are from, just sans the FC or United at the end. It’s hard to see how Konami could ever get a hold of the license for the Premier League, what with it being FIFA’s ace in the hole, yet ultimately is what could hold it back theoretically. There are plenty of licensed clubs available, from France’s Ligue 1 to Italy’s Serie A, however, only Arsenal and Manchester United feature from the biggest league in the world. Something that is still broken and is what harms PES overall is the lack of the top-tier licenses (Premier League, essentially). Not a huge leap forward you could fairly argue, yet when you’ve had the success that Konami have had with M圜lub, it’s no surprise they’ve gone with the “if it ain’t broke” formula. Not much has really changed bar that it’s had a new coat of paint, and new players who perform well on international duty will be available as Featured Players now. The runaway success of PES’s build-your-own online club means that, even with microtransactions, this is still an all-consuming part of your playing time if you want to take your club-building skills online. Playing youth players or fan-favourites at certain points are just a couple of examples where your virtual fan-base can help your Master League team grow from strength to strength. Controlling a club is just as demanding and gratifying as it always has been, but with added extras, such as real-life manager avatars being added (including Zico, Johann Cruyff and Maradonna), as well as interactions that determine the fate of your club’s stature. Yes, the old life-sapper is back and better than ever. Alongside your leagues and cups, and the ever-present Become A Legend, is the newly improved Master League. Off the field is where PES has plenty in its arsenal, too. It’s not just on the field though where PES needs to take the fight to FIFA. Shooting 1-on-1 is still a little hit and miss if you’re not well versed in PES, but becomes uniform with practice. Conversely, breaks on the counter, whether with Leicester-under-Ranieri-style 3 passes to goal, or with Barca-esque tika-taka play, scoring goals still feels fantastic, especially from the end of a great move. So breaking down a swift-counter-attack from your opponent is weighty and deserved when timed right. Couple this with in-game replays showing these animations in slo-mo with the scoreboard still on screen and you’ve got yourself a playable live-broadcast in your living room in HD.Įlsewhere, tackling and jostling for possession looks hard, and is hard, but feels earned when it comes off. The satisfaction you will experience with a Paul Pogba or Mbappé pass, controlled with a flicked out leg from a 40-yard cross-field ball, is genuinely endless. The close-to-reality factor continues with players not only feeling like their real-life counterparts in terms of passing and moving, but new ball control animations have also been added this year to really give you that “real” feel. Poorer teams won’t be able to be as quick, but with the wealth of in-game management that has become a staple of PES for years now, even the Prestons of this world can hold up against the Juventus’ and Real’s, if managed correctly. The fluidity of passing and moving feels natural and easy (if you have the right team to undertake such liquid football). PES 2020 is like a BT Sport live game brought through your console. Well suffice to say, that not only is eFootball PES 2020 really, really great this year, it could genuinely be in contention for a shot at the football game championship (even if the eFootball bit of the title doesn’t do it any favours).Īs with any football game, it’s all about the mechanics and, of course, for what feels like the nth year in a row, Konami have somehow created an as-close-as-damn-it football sim you’ll ever play. Everybody thinks PES is the Jose Mourinho of football games yesterday’s man, gone the way of the 4-4-2 and orange slices at half-time.
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