eFootball PES 2020 – Analysis

The football season has begun and Konami he could not miss his annual appointment with the followers of the king sport. That is why the Japanese company has developed a new installment of its most popular sports simulator and we have already played it to offer you our particular eFootball PES 2020 analysis.

For now we will have to offer you an analysis in progress as some functions of the title will not be available until September 12, date on which we will test and update this eFootball PES 2020 review.

The competition gains prominence

As you can intuit by the new name of this installment, which adds an eFootball before the main title, Konami has decided that PES 2020 is mainly aimed at online competition and eSports. But we are sorry to tell you that the online functions are not yet available, so we cannot tell you how the online game of this 2020 PES eFootball works for now. On the 12th there will be a patch to the title that will enable the online and incorporate all the news of the summer market in the templates, which at the moment are not updated and are the same as there were at the end of last season.

So, we invite you to return to this same article on September 12 to discover the true essence of the Konami football simulator. Now, we will give you a summary of the numerous game modes that are part of this sports simulator and we will explain what our experiences have been with the few modes available today.

Match day

This game mode was not yet available when preparing this text, but we can tell you that it is a competitive online mode in which we can participate in special events that will encourage us to live from within historical football rivalries and to participate in some of the most important and spectacular games of all time.

The first Match Day event will take place today, September 10, between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time). All participants in the match day of eFootball PES 2020 will receive rewards, win or lose, but obviously, they will be greater the farther you get in the competition. In addition, we have already said that Konami wants to give great importance to online competition and that is why Match Day finals can be followed via live streaming.

My club

The most popular mode of recent years in the saga returns for eSports PES 2020. We have not been able to prove it by not being available online yet, but we can tell you how it will be as soon as the game is updated on September 12. Once again, In My Club you have to create a team from scratch and achieve worldwide fame competing against other players. Of course, in this new installment, Konami has introduced notable changes for My Club and that shows as soon as you start to mess with the players' chips, which have more details than ever.

In addition, there are now outstanding players of the national team And they all have their own card designs. If we get an outstanding national team player, we can count on him with higher statistics than if we acquire his normal club version. So you have to be very attentive to all versions of the players and their performances when they play with their selections, because our team can vary a lot in their statistics depending on it.

Finally, we want to point out that Konami will hold special weekly events within My Club of eSports PES 2020, which will invite us to continue playing day by day to overcome challenges and continue to demonstrate that our team is the best in the world.

Master League

The Master League is once again the main mode for a player. In this game mode we assume the role of a club coach with the aim of taking it to the top of the sports landscape. To do this, we have to choose the appearance of our coach among several football legends such as Cruyff, Maradona or Zico, among others. Once the coach is chosen, it is time to opt for a team and decide whether to play with their current real squad or if they start with the classic rookies of the Master League and thus face a greater challenge.

From there, the moment of truth arrives. In the Master League we not only have to play games in different competitions, but also we have to manage every aspect of our staff, make signings, devise game strategies … And, in addition, from time to time it is necessary to make decisions that influence the fans, with small video scenes of press conferences or meetings with the directors of the club or players (until now the scenes were mute, but perhaps voices are added with the arrival of the launch patch today, we will confirm it to you). In short, Liga Master is the ideal way to feel like a real 'mister' in eFootball PES 2020.

Be a legend

Another of the classic modes of the franchise returns in this new installment. In Being a Legend we have to create a player from scratch, choosing its origin, its appearance, its position, the league in which it debuts, etc. Unlike seen in the Master League mode, we have to control only this player to get him to perform the best performance in each game and thus increase his statistics and become the best player in the world.

Of course, as in reality, we can negotiate with our club contract improvements or even sign for better teams as we become more recognized in the world of football. In short, Being a Legend is the ideal game mode for all those users who have ever dreamed of becoming stars of the king sport. Just don't expect a way similar to The Road to the FIFA saga because what Konami offers us is not a narrative mode.

New control system

If you are followers of the PES saga, you will know that Konami has always preferred to opt for a control system more focused on simulation than arcade. With eFootball 2020, he has not made an exception and has designed a new system that incorporates some novelties with respect to what was seen in PES 2019 and that gives even more realism to the meetings.

The main novelty of this delivery lies in the use of the lower left trigger trigger (L2 / LT) since, with this button, We can access several quick actions to get out of the way according to the player we are controlling. In addition, by pressing the right stick, we enter the ball control mode, which allows us perform dribbling on a tile Ideal for when we are in a band covered by a defender. Of course, other elements such as stick-oriented controls have been improved.

On the other hand, we have also noticed an important change in the passes since they are now less precise and require more thinking about the moves. This makes the pace of the games slower, but also that the realism is higher having to focus more on making somewhat longer and more elaborate plays. Of course, you can play perfectly against counterattacks with long passes and at the first touch, but in PES 2020 it is more difficult to succeed with these moves than in previous editions.

A light and shadow simulator

It may sound sad to say it, but eFootball 2020 continues to sin of the same deficiencies as always. Although Konami has added new licenses in this installment and has the Argentine or Brazilian league, at European level it is still far behind compared to its great competitor in the market. Have the rights of Juventus, the F.C. Barcelona, ​​Manchester United or Bayern Munich are not enough if you can't play with the names and real kits of clubs like Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid or many other greats in Europe. And the same goes for stadiums. It should be clarified that a patch with new licenses will arrive today.

This has a direct impact on the appearance of some high-level players since, on occasion, they stay quite far from their flesh and blood versions. So, we have to pull the complete editor of the game again, or download the creations of other users, in order to have all the important teams and players in order. But not everything is negative since Konami will have exclusive Euro 2020 in eFootball 2020, through a free update that will arrive throughout the first third of next year.

And following these paths, it is noted that we are facing the last, or penultimate, exclusive PES delivery of the current generation. The 2020 edition does not bring any notable graphic breakthrough and it seems that the engine used by Konami for the simulator begins to give no more of itself. As for the sound section, Carlos Martínez and Julio Maldonado 'Maldini' are responsible for narrating the meetings once again, with a fairly wide repertoire of phrases. For its part, the soundtrack of eFootball 2020 does not stand out too much and happens to be a mere background music while we navigate through the menus of the game.

And so far our analysis in progress of eFootball 2020. We remind you that On September 12 we will update the article when we have been able to try all the online game modes and discover the true essence of this simulator. It will be then when you can discover what grade we give to the title and what is our final assessment of all its functions.