EFOOTBALL PES 2021 REVIEW UPDATE
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Devotees will find some new content hiding in those PS2 era menus though. Have you ever in your life watched a left-back dribble around in two complete circles before firing off a pass? It’s as common here as the potato-headed players without proper face scans. While I’m on the subject of AI, I want to see a transformative step forwards next year because the old routines are really showing their age now. It breaks the immersion and it can cost you what would otherwise have been clear chances. It’s most noticeable after passes are deflected and have no clear recipient 21 AI players seem to go to sleep until the one highlighted player finds himself with the ball.

There’s still too much ball-watching from the AI though, both from the opposition and the players on your own team who you don’t have highlighted. Through balls, chipped or ground passes, and crosses can all be pinged in with a level of granularity that turns a game on a dime when a perfectly weighted one connects, while your ability to gently steer a player’s run off the shoulder of their marker while they anticipate the ball reaps big rewards when it’s timed just right. Sadly it’s not the very best football this particular game has played, but improvements to first touches and to control at sprinting pace do a lot for it.

EFOOTBALL PES 2021 REVIEW UPDATE

The needle has swung both ways with data packs, then, and in many ways you can view eFootball PES 2021 Season Update as a full stop on that ongoing saga, a kind of bells and whistles edition of Data Pack 9.

Then further updates absolutely ruined it again, to the degree that superstars earning a squillion pounds an hour seemed incapable of taking a first touch. Yes, it was nice to stay up-to-date with Neymar’s hair but more importantly these data packs tweaked the values underpinning its football, and they fine-tuned them to near-perfection. Where things started to get really interesting for PES 2020 were in its data pack releases. Foregoing all that variety and presentational sparkle is the trade-off you make for better football on the turf, and the equation doesn’t change a jot with this release. “FIFA, meanwhile, not only has all the licensed kits, names and badges you could ever hope to skip past on the team select menu, but a narrative-driven Volta mode and the mighty FUT, among others.

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