![]() Historically, PES has always suffered from ping pong one-touch passes. In the world of sports video games, the more realistic the error is the better simulation you get. More Error When It Comes To Passing & Shooting ![]() Shots rattle the posts and crossbars, and even if the keeper parries a shot it doesn’t automatically fall to the feet of an opportunistic attacker. Shots and passes have back/top spin on them, allowing them to either skip out of play or wreak havoc on keepers with hands like Kepa. The camera can actually keep up with well hit shots now. When you catch a shot cleanly, you can feel the power behind them.Īlso, kudos to Konami for toning down shot power a little while also increasing the camera pan speed. Shots have a punch to them and don’t feel floaty. Longer ground passes skip a few times on the turf. The ball has weight, which means that passing and shooting have weight. The ball physics in PES the past two years are by far the best I’ve ever witnessed in a soccer game. ![]() It’s perhaps a weird thing to call out but hear me out. There are a few new ones sprinkled in too, not too mention some awesome keeper animations. It’s far from perfect in PES 2021, but overall, animations are better than they have ever been both in terms of which animations plays out and how they look. I briefly mentioned the stumble animation bug but it’s one of the easiest examples of PES’ poor past when it comes to animations. ![]() One of the beneficial side effects of a more responsive game is better animations, specifically how the game branches from one animation to another. It also allows you to draw fouls more often from the CPU because you can lure them in and use their rashness against them (more on fouls later). It impacts how you play the game and opens up avenues of the game that simply aren’t available in FIFA. It’s subtle and might not seem like a big deal, but the impact it has on gameplay can’t be overlooked. Notice here in the first clip how I’m able to cope with the immediate pressure put on me by the Dortmund defender and then ride the second challenge before passing the ball. With increased responsiveness in both button inputs and dribbling, you’re able to allow defenders to get much closer and beat them with or without the use of skills and tricks. Don’t get me wrong, skill moves are also better now, mostly because the animations have been speed up ever so slightly, which lets you branch out of animations with more fluidity, greatly reducing the ugly stumble animation that had plagued PES for so long. eFootball PES 2021 feels and moves a lot like the PES 2020 demo, which translates into more fluid dribbling mechanics.ĭribbling in its purist form is about body position, touches, and using momentum and the occasional speed burst to keep the ball away from niggling defenders and PES 2021 does a great job at this. It’s one of those things you “feel” rather than see but it’s most evident when dribbling. When it comes to detailing how responsive PES is right now, it’s hard to quantify. The first thing that jumped out when I started playing PES 2021 was how much responsiveness had improved since PES 2020. If you’re new to PES, check out the eFootball PES 2020 review here.ĮFootball PES 2021 Season Update Review – What I Like Increased Responsiveness For this reason, I’m going to focus the majority of this review on gameplay. Apart from three new managers added to Master League, there have been no significant changes to game modes, visuals or edit mode. On the other hand, is an update of PES 2020 good enough to play for two years? It’s time to find out in this eFootball PES 2021 Season Update review!įor the majority of this review, I’ll be focusing on gameplay, specifically how it compares to eFootball PES 2020. Throw in the new Unreal Engine that was announced for PES 2022 and the risk probably outweighed the reward for Konami. Rushing to make two versions of the game on separate systems could be a recipe for a disaster. On one hand, a two-year development cycle while we’re in the midst of transitioning to next-gen seems like a smart calculated approach. When Konami announced its decision that eFootball PES 2021 would be a season update, many of us were split as to whether or not this was good for the future of the series.
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