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- SEASON UPDATE – PES 2021 is an updated version of last year’s title, eFootball PES 2020, providing the latest player data and club rosters. Due to the delayed season endings for many leagues, the latest data for certain licensed leagues and teams will be available via updates at launch and after (internet connection required).
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Official site. eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE delivers all the critically acclaimed features and gameplay from eFootball PES 2020 that was awarded “Best Sports Game” at E3 2019, plus more. Boasting the latest player and club data for the new season, the game also includes the exclusive UEFA EURO 2020™ mode and content in advance of the ...
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By Phil Iwaniuk
Updated: Sep 18, 2020 6:12 pm
Posted: Sep 18, 2020 5:20 pm
Season update. Two words that succinctly sum up football fans’ years of frustration with both PES and FIFA, and describe what might ironically be the most meaningful innovation in football games for years - or at least lead to it. But is this year's PES actually worth buying? It’s a more complicated question than it seems.
You see, while Konami chips away at its vision for next-gen football arriving next year, PES 2021 arrives as an unapologetic stop-gap release, priced significantly lower than usual (including an additional 20% discount for PES 2020 owners) and offering distinctly fewer new features than you’d expect, even for a franchise with such a relentless annualised release cadence. The graphics? They’re the same. Controls? They're the same too. Menus? Okay, there are some new background pictures, but you can see what I’m trying to say. This is, in no uncertain terms, a collection of updated squads, kits, and whatever Paul Pogba’s latest misadventure with peroxide might be.
Which is what both galacticos of the football franchise world have been accused of, year on year, since time immemorial. At least PES 2021 (or eFootball PES 2021 Season Update, as it’s absurdly calling itself this year) is straight with us about it.
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. 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. It breaks the immersion and it can cost you what would otherwise have been clear chances.
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. 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.
Devotees will find some new content hiding in those PS2 era menus though. Master League is bolstered with some new manager avatar options, including softly spoken silverware-hoarder Pep Guardiola, and the Euro 2020 tournament that hasn’t happened yet is playable in PES form, licensed kits and all. If that sounds meagre, remember that football games got away with releasing only these tournaments as full-priced games for years.
So we know what eFootball PES 2021 is, and we also know quite categorically what it isn’t. The harder question to answer is that pesky one about whether it’s worth buying, even at a discounted price.
On paper, season updates feel like the answer to every annualised sports franchise’s problem: there’s just not enough bandwidth to innovate between titles when you’re held to a yearly release schedule. Not really. Not the kind of innovation that changes the way you play. What we’re faced with as football game fans this year is deferring gratification, sacrificing a good game to get a great one later. In a perfect world we’d review this year’s game next year, when we’d know how Konami used that extra time and resources.
Without the luxury of that foresight, eFootball PES 2021 feels like a pragmatic solution to a problem Konami can’t be blamed for - working from home, producing an annualised game, during the advent of a new console generation. That’s not to say it isn’t disappointing, but the pricing strategy and the fundamental quality on the pitch do mitigate that disappointment.
Aside from a handful of updates, PES 2021 is ultimately the same as last year's game. So if you already have it, it's not worth the upgrade. But this release asks an important question of us, as gamers and as consumers: are we prepared to tide ourselves over on off-years with packages like this while developers strive for bigger innovations between...
Featuring 85 updated player faces, over 100 new kits and additional in-game content
