Winning Eleven was the name of Konami’s first football game back in 1996, while 2001’s Pro Evolution Soccer was the successor label to International Superstar Soccer. Konami has confirmed to IGN that the Option Files for these customisations will be added after launch, as well as that Peter Drury and Jim Beglin will return as the English-language commentating duo.ĭitching PES in the West and Winning Eleven in Japan is a significant choice by Konami, closing the book on these long and storied brands.

There’s a lot of key features from a typical PES game that will be missing, such as M圜lub and the ability to customise generic teams to match the real world counterparts. However, this shift is also seeing Konami release the game in a rather barebones form. New Football Game sure does look like a football game. There will also be a Match Pass system, which seems to be a battle pass. Later in the autumn, online leagues will be opened, cross-platform matches will be enabled, and a new Team Building Mode will be added, which would seemingly be the successor to the FIFA Ultimate Team-like Master League. Now we hope that you can enjoy this brand new football experience that eFootball™ has to offer.Īt launch, eFootball will feature exhibition matches and a selection of 9 clubs to play, with other modes offered as optional DLC down the line. To signal this new era, we have decided to part ways with our beloved PES brand and rename it “eFootball™”! We had gone beyond the border of PES, into a new realm of virtual football. The final result was even more impressive than we had originally conceived. To this end, we decided to create a new football engine, with revamped animation system and game controls. Our ambition was to recreate the perfect football environment, from the grass on the pitch, to the players’ movement, all the way to the crowds in the stadium.

It all began with the implacable determination to create a revolutionary football experience. In a statement on the change, Konami writes:

There will no longer be paid annual releases, but there will still be yearly updates for new seasons, and certain content locked behind a pay wall. Going forward, eFootball will be a game of continual evolution, as a ‘platform’ with regular updates.

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