Pro-Evolution Soccer Successor 'eFootball' Is Getting A Switch 2 Exclusive Spin-Off

Great to see EA getting some competition again. I preferred PES back in the day, such a shame the series stopped

Will it be better than EA FC?

I miss the promised master league dlc for e football. I played pes so much back in the day. My go to football game.

PES 2021 is still the best football game out there. eFootball is an unmitigated disaster on all fronts. Thankfully the PES 99 mod is coming to PC soon.

They refused to localize that Goemon collection in favor of this?!

Unfortunately I dont think anyone really cares. Sad as FC really needs some proper competition to push it to improve.

Didn't read much positive things about eFootball and haven't been interested in FIFA for many years either. Hope they surprise us with a good game, but my expectations are low.

I don't understand why they have stuck with the eFootball branding for this. They must know that game is total garbage, I was interested until that appeared on screen. Now I just assuming they don't wanna taint the PES brand with this crap in case they wanna bring it back one day

Switch exclusive? If this is good this could be a real head turner, but if it plays anything like efootball then we can lay this to rest, it's worse the fc26

I just hope it recaptures some of that Pro Evo magic, that was glorious during the PS2 era.

So is this more of a tycoon game like Football Manager or a sports game like FIFA?

Hopefully not too expensive if a spin off game and not free to play (a model I personally hate) as an old PES fan it has me slightly excited for some thing a bit different an the club mode kind of reminds me of some of the old Skool Wii PES game modes that were fun now and then.

@nessisonett completely agree. My youngest and I have PES2021 permanently installed on the playstation, complete with all the kit files uploaded. It is incredible. Plays beautifully.

The latest efootball was awful. I hope this is better.

@anoyonmus The PES games never where better than Fifa. So I doubt it. But happy to see some competition on the football game genre.

I didn't realize this was a new game

The trailer looked like it was running at 20 fps and looked like a cheap mobile game. Hard pass for me. PES been dead for a long while now...

Good to see an alternative to fcea. Might get this.

Cool I don't get on with fifa. And haven't bought a football game since 1996 This could tempt me a bit it may need a demo to do so. But still could be tempted.

@ShadLink Absolute lies.

@ShadLink You must be young. During the PS2 years, PES was far and away the better game. FIFA only really took over in the PS3 years.

PES 2021 is still the best football game. Unfortunately eFootball is as crap as a FIFA game (now EA FC).

Can this be like Twitter where we all admit the new name is stupid and just keep using the old one?

Pro Evolution Soccer were initially very fiddly games (started as ISS Pro on PS), and I much preferred the regular and more responsive International Superstar Soccer series, which started on the SNES as Perfect 11 (ISS) and Fighting 11 (ISS Deluxe) in Japan (if I accurately recall), with full lineage back to Hyper Soccer on the NES. The N64 versions introduced an exciting through ball and played up the search pass, which made them quite a jarring contrast for those coming from PES, now on PS2. ISS was a mess once it arrived on Game Cube while PES thrived on PS2. I recall the even numbered games were often the best, like PES2 and PES4. Ironically, my favourite PES game arrived on the Game Cube as Winning 11 6 Final Evolution, ostensibly PES2.5 with sexy GC controls, so it was really refined! Note that PES and WE numbers were not aligned until years became the suffix in 2008.

I played a few PES games over the years on PS3 and PS4 without getting too excited about any. I'm a Nintendo gamer at heart and still have a huge soft spot for Konami soccer games, so I am interested in eFootball and at least hope it plays well. Otherwise, I'll stick to FC 24, which is actually really good for a EA/FIFA game! Typically I find them fiddly and unresponsive too.

I just realised it was an spin-off after reading this same article. It does seem to run at the same engine as the free-to-play game, though.

I like PES better than FIFA back in the day. The last one I bought was actually on the 3DS (whatever year that was). I do not care as much about the graphics as the gameplay so if this has a demo I'll try it.

@nessisonett PES was always more arcade like and Fifa was always more a football-sim. At least that was how my brother used to see it. (And he should know, Fifa is almost the only thing he plays).

And no we're not young.

I still have memories of my big bro getting his PlayStation 2 (before that we played only on PC, and yes Fifa) to play Fifa in his room in the early 2000s. Not long after I bought my first console: a Cube with The Wind Waker. I also got Fifa for it later, so I could be player one for some matches against my brother.

@ShadLink The opposite is mostly true up until fairly recently. FIFA was the arcade experience, with less realistic physics and gameplay targeted at flashy skill moves and high scoring matches. PES offered more weighty physics and a slower build up throughout the golden age, it was later in the PS3 generation into PS4 generation that FIFA attempted a strange blend of pretend simulation with arcade gameplay. I honestly don’t mind the simulation gameplay in the newest FC games in single player but Ultimate Team rules all and that gameplay is blatantly scripted to generate income.

@nessisonett Okay I could be misremembering that. But the case stands he (my brother) loved Fifa a lot more than PES.

Myself I only played Fifa against him, and didn't even get Mario Strikers until the Wii version. (and the Switch version) So I don't really know. I have played PES before, but didn't care for it much.

Sp this isn’t the free to play one? Shame. Thought that would be nice to try. Always ti have some footy knowledge the go.

(Back to swos then)

I will wait for a full review. The framerate in the Direct was a bit odd.

@FredBiletnikoff
facts they are smoking some good stuff with that comment lol.

winning 11 6 Final Evolution on GameCube was magnificent, football at its finest crime that it never made it west.

Maybe they will bring back master league, but all they seem to care about nowadays is selling football trading cards to people ... we live in sad times ...

It was all about Pro evo for sometime.

Id even say that international super star soccer on Snes was way better than fifa . that was a wonderful game ...

@HalBailman

yes it was all about willing eleven 6 final evolution best import of a football game i have ever made. wonderful game..
FIFA vs pro evo is a sad time telling where people care more about player names and kits etc than actual gameplay.

EA know this and have been phoning this in for years .....

I was so excited when first announced, but this immediately turned into apprehension when seeing the dreaded ”special version for Switch” rather than the mainline games. To me that is code word for, ”we couldn’t bring efootball proper to Switch in time, so here’s a quick rehash that plays worse with fewer modes and worse graphics”. Just like when EA made a bespoke version since porting the Frostbite version was claimed impossible.

Hope they prove me wrong

I’m a diehard PES fan (PES 3 and 6 for life ), even competed in the Italian championships back when even though I’m not Italian haha. But I also think efootball is still better than FIFA. I mainly play local vs matches mind and don’t really care for the game modes.