The new system also means that you’re now far more susceptible to the offside trap, with Jesse Lingard in my Manchester United team being irritatingly frequent in mistiming his run - somewhat similar to his real-world self. However, the pace of your winger now needs to be controlled more effectively, so that the AI-based positioning of a central striker can match up with you, in order to convert crosses into goals. Crossing is another aspect that is strong in this game, and is one of the few elements that we found to be relatively easier to execute. This also means that you now pay more attention to the weightage of your passes and through balls. It’s not impossible, we’ve pulled it off multiple times, but with the new gameplay mechanics, it no longer remains a mean feat. For instance, if you happen to be losing a match and have only 10 minutes left, with most of your star players either worn out or subbed off, bringing on any random substitute into the match never guarantees that you’ll be able to score in quick succession. However, PES 2020 has also ingrained the idea of mis-kicks and mis-timed tackles into its gameplay, and while there’s no denying the realism of the game as a result, it can quickly get frustrating. For the most part, they work really well. It’s a strongly positive move by PES, one which adds a much stronger meaning to putting more effort in crafting your transfer strategy. The likes of Lionel Messi and Philippe Coutinho are champions of the new tricks mechanism, caressing the ball with deft touches through the feet of hapless defenders.Įven in the midfield, robust players such as Paul Pogba prove to be strong playmakers, while creative players such as Christian Eriksen and Kevin de Bruyne are more likely to find a defence-splitting through ball with higher accuracy and frequency, than any random player. Players with faster pace can now actually show it on the pitch, and not have young, low-rated defenders miraculously catch up with them. Konami is tapping into its newly struck partnerships here, and with that, players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulo Dybala, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba feel significantly more able than others such as Cenk Tosun of Everton, Troy Deeney of Watford, or the mystifying Romelu Lukaku, now of Internazionale. As a result, you cannot quite get away with low-rated players scoring hat-tricks every match, or saving a well-struck free kick - unless, of course, you’re playing at the Beginner and Amateur levels. That’s not all - with PES 2020, your players are more closely bound to their ratings, abilities, reputations and flair. The gameplay changes attempt, and largely succeed, to give you a far more realistic version of football than before. However, a few hours in, and I started getting the hang of all the changes that Konami has introduced with PES 2020. Not in a submissive way, though - in more cases than one, eFootball PES 2020 is a bigger, broader-shouldered, shinier and more mature title than ever before, and it maintains the fine balance of eating into FIFA’s own territory, while capitalising on its core strengths. In many ways, Konami has acknowledged through PES 2020 that no review or discussion about it would not involve talks about EA Sports’ FIFA. While such things really depend on your own perception, this actually says a lot about the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise. Was this Konami’s subtle hint that multiplayer football tournaments may no longer be a certain monopoly of FIFA’s?Ībout a week into playing it, I’m pretty certain that it most likely is. When I finally fathomed that it really signified Konami’s rather literal switch to the eSports arena, it felt like a very subtle nudge at Electronic Arts’ colossal FIFA franchise - a sneaky nudge at an opponent’s shins, if you will. As PES 2020 was installing on the Xbox, I kept wondering whether the ‘eFootball’ was a result of some new sponsorship that Konami may have struck with Pro Evolution Soccer.
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