Konami’s eFootball is a disaster at launch, the lowest rated game on Steam

Well, the transition from Pro Evolution Soccer to a totally free game eFootball it’s a pretty hot mess.

Konami football The game launched on Wednesday with player expectations already set for the future, thanks to a development roadmap that promises many major features through title updates. But that doesn’t even begin to explain the jank ride that gamers, especially PC gamers, have found that have succeeded the worst rated Steam game of all time, based on a site’s metric.

What exactly is happening? Okay, this:

Image: Konami Digital Entertainment / Konami via Steam

and that:

Image: Konami Digital Entertainment / Konami via Steam

and probably the most notorious example, seen from numerous sources:

Image: Konami Digital Entertainment / Konami via EpicPes on Twitter

To be fair, it appears that most of these grotesque contortions, both of the body and of the face, are showing up in eFootballcut scenes and interstitial cutscenes. Not that it makes it more palatable, but the game’s action seems to be bothered by minor issues, though players do complain of a general blur and sloppy animations, some of which could be seen in pre-launch trailers for the game.

The situation is bad enough that Konami dropped a general purpose apology Friday morning.

eFootball It’s not just changing the name and format, it’s also changing the engines, from Konami’s old proprietary Fox Engine (yes, the one developed eight years ago for Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes) to Unreal Engine 4. Clearly, that failed to deliver more impressive visuals and animations, at least in eFootballcut scenes.

But gamers are also disappointed that Konami failed to deliver on its promises of sharper gameplay, with more realistic one-on-one matchups, more aggressive defenses, and faster counterattacks. A lot of “Overwhelmingly negative” reviews on Steam (11,554 bad at last count) give credit to eFootball for some new stuff (“new defense mechanic concept” and “uncut ball boy instant play”, for example), while finding many glitches in the core game.

“The slow and consistent character models from the old games is what kept the game smooth and better than FIFA,” said one reviewer on launch day. “This game is in the middle of both games. PES ball physics and FIFA player character models, which is appalling. You can’t mix the two because they have completely different styles.

“Two years waiting for a game without MyClub, without [Master League] or [Be a Legend modes]and furthermore, the charts in 2021 look worse than PES 13 and 17? “continued.” I don’t know how this was published. “(Konami developers omitted a full version last year and instead updated eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020, released in Fall 2019.)

The clamor has legitimate historical proportions. Steam 250, a site that, since 2014, has ranked all games in the store relative to each other based on user scores, you currently have eFootball As the worse between his last 100 games. The sports video games on this list were released in a basically incomplete state (WWE 2K20) or lack important features that their console counterparts have (Madden NFL 22). eFootball, it seems, is both.

“The 60fps limit is vile,” he said. Steam’s “Most Helpful” Review, and it really is a balanced assessment. “Viler cap replay at 30 fps, especially since this seems to be an easy game to play,” they added. Elsewhere, they found issues with the “responsiveness of controls at times when the player has the ball 1mm in front of him, but it only takes a long time to respond, or it just slides away.”

And now that? Konami’s tweet promises that eFootball “It will be continually updated, quality will be improved and content will be added constantly.” An update has already been promised for this month. The development roadmap offered in August said that the game would have online leagues, a team-building mode, cross-platform matches, and a match pass system in the first major update of the title.

It seems that it may be on hold; if not, it should definitely have lower priority for eFootball getting the rest of your [act] together.