Playing youth players or fan-favourites at certain points are just a couple of examples where your virtual fan-base can help your Master League team grow from strength to strength. Controlling a club is just as demanding and gratifying as it always has been, but with added extras, such as real-life manager avatars being added (including Zico, Johann Cruyff and Maradonna), as well as interactions that determine the fate of your club’s stature. Yes, the old life-sapper is back and better than ever. Alongside your leagues and cups, and the ever-present Become A Legend, is the newly improved Master League. Off the field is where PES has plenty in its arsenal, too. It’s not just on the field though where PES needs to take the fight to FIFA. Shooting 1-on-1 is still a little hit and miss if you’re not well versed in PES, but becomes uniform with practice. Conversely, breaks on the counter, whether with Leicester-under-Ranieri-style 3 passes to goal, or with Barca-esque tika-taka play, scoring goals still feels fantastic, especially from the end of a great move. So breaking down a swift-counter-attack from your opponent is weighty and deserved when timed right. Couple this with in-game replays showing these animations in slo-mo with the scoreboard still on screen and you’ve got yourself a playable live-broadcast in your living room in HD.Įlsewhere, tackling and jostling for possession looks hard, and is hard, but feels earned when it comes off. The satisfaction you will experience with a Paul Pogba or Mbappé pass, controlled with a flicked out leg from a 40-yard cross-field ball, is genuinely endless. The close-to-reality factor continues with players not only feeling like their real-life counterparts in terms of passing and moving, but new ball control animations have also been added this year to really give you that “real” feel. Poorer teams won’t be able to be as quick, but with the wealth of in-game management that has become a staple of PES for years now, even the Prestons of this world can hold up against the Juventus’ and Real’s, if managed correctly. The fluidity of passing and moving feels natural and easy (if you have the right team to undertake such liquid football). PES 2020 is like a BT Sport live game brought through your console. Well suffice to say, that not only is eFootball PES 2020 really, really great this year, it could genuinely be in contention for a shot at the football game championship (even if the eFootball bit of the title doesn’t do it any favours).Īs with any football game, it’s all about the mechanics and, of course, for what feels like the nth year in a row, Konami have somehow created an as-close-as-damn-it football sim you’ll ever play. Everybody thinks PES is the Jose Mourinho of football games yesterday’s man, gone the way of the 4-4-2 and orange slices at half-time.

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