The World Cup is definitely not coming to free-to-play football sim eFootball – but, well, it also kinda is, right? Konami has announced the second season of soccer for its embattled Pro Evo reboot, which centres upon the International Cup Experience. This, along with the addition of 40 national teams, will see you compete against AI for the admittedly not-quite-so coveted prize. If you want to get more competitive, then you’ll be able to try out the eFootball International Cup, which has a prize pool of 1 billion eFootball coins.
New National Team Packs will be available for Dream Team, eFootball’s alternative to Ultimate Team, and these come with 11 players from each supported country, including France, Argentina, Brazil, and Japan. As part of each National Team Pack, you’ll get a guaranteed Big Time card, which is effectively a new digital card design reflecting an iconic moment from a superstar player’s career, either past or present.
Of course, there’s still no word on Master League mode, which is the eFootball feature most players are waiting for. That’s not due out until 2023, so if you’re not interested in this upcoming international event, there’s no real reason to re-download the soccer sim right now.
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Oh how this series has fallen since the golden days of Pro Evo 3-5. It was brilliant back then.
This plays a lot better now than it did on launch, just waiting on master league now.
I’m confused as to how they’ve added 40 national teams when like 100 national teams have been in the game since launch.
Starting to really miss my yearly PES now. Can't be bothered with the free PES and its slow dripfeed payed content. Seems like in 2 years this free PES will have the exact same content as a yearly PES game would but will end up costing more than a yearly PES game would with its slow payed content. I don't see the point so stupid
I so want to get into this. I play it very occassionaly for about five minutes and, although I don't love the gameplay, I feel I COULD love it once I've learned the ins and outs. But I don't game online so the complete lack of offline teams, modes, licenses and even difficulty settings etc just makes me turn it off again.
I really don't understand the strategy behind it from Konami? Like, just add in all the teams, an edit mode and unlock all the settings and you'd instantly increase the amount of people who play it. By all means add Master League etc at some later point, but at the very least make everything accesible offline for kick off mode just for some sort of variety!
@tomassi I play the AI tournaments then wait for a refresh. Biding my time for Master League. The gameplay is excellent. I've played FIFA 23 extensively and Pro Evo still has it beaten convincingly.
@riceNpea I just can't do it. Loved PES for years so really WANT to love this but can't until it's fully operational on an offline basis.
@tomassi fair enough mate. I'm a huge fan too, loved Pro Evo since it's inception (except the awful PS3 period where it went off the rails).
Rest assured that once ML is here next year the gameplay is excellent. The changes to defending Once you've got used to them really add to the realism. The animations and ball physics are top notch as usual, and the players act and feel natural as well as represent their real life counterparts well.
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