You expect Z-list players to look a be generic, but even some very well-know players look pretty weird. The player’s faces, on the other hand, are a bit of a mixed bag. The lighting, the detail off the stadiums and the on-pitch action is superb. The game engine, Hideo Kojima’s legendary Fox Engine, originally developed for Metal Gear Solid 5, looks the business. But don’t let this lack of gloss fool you. Konami’s PES front-end is still as subdued as ever and really could do with a polish. Whilst little Johnny is likely to still be well pissed-off that grandma picked up eFootball PES 2021 Season Update instead of FIFA 21, I have to say, it is, in many ways, a better football game than FIFA. I’ve dismissing the artisan football gamers proclaiming PES’s superiority as just a bunch of contrary hipsters too proud to admit that EA’s football is the best.

To be fair, I’ve scoffed at PES for its lack of licences and dodgy-looking menus. Having been away from PES I’m a lot more familiar and comfortable with FIFA. It’s really hard to take about Konami’s PES without mentioning EA’s FIFA, as the two rival football games have been at each other for years.

Instead, what we have here is PES 2020, but updated with this year’s stats and Euro 2020. Konami, it seems, unlike EA Games, have moved beyond the pretence that we are getting a new football game this year. Whilst I’ve been away playing EA Sports’ FIFA with all it’s polish, licences players, teams, competitions and razzamatazz, Pro Evolution Soccer has evolved. Konami’s naming convention for its eFootball PES 2021 Season Update is, to be frank, rather bizarre. Football, as they say, is a funny old game.

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