eFootball 2023

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
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  1. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 13, 2022
    60
    It seems like this year’s edition of eFootball needed to take more risks. There is too much invested in licenses and petty makeup and next to nothing to improve the core and the heart of this beloved game. It may be free to play, but it is also free to pass. EFootball fans deserve more than this.

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3.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 49 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 49
  3. Negative: 33 out of 49
  1. I3ordo
    Dec 18, 2022
    1
    Your developers have Finally made the most miserable football experience ever, congratulations.

    Due to the extremely effective    Your developers have Finally made the most miserable football experience ever, congratulations.

    Due to the extremely effective skill-balancing system, (always finding ways to keep the scores close, artificially increasing the winning side's error frequency higher, shots going into center, or the post too frequent), you were able to keep everyone invested in the game but what you actually accomplished was dumping everyone that had cared for the game away while trying to keep the thrash in.

    In patch notes, the developers sound as if they are actively trying to fine-tune the experience but what they are actually doing is just reversing the things that required perception, anticipation and patience into things that favour "recklessness" and random chance.

    Incase your developers are NOT ill-intended businessmen; here is what the latest v2.2 introduced to the game....

    1: Goal keepers are too powerful against shots. Game at least should require the defending player to modify the keepers position to be able to save those unchallenged shots.

    2: Almost no goals outside the box, every match , everyone knows that keepers will save everything and thus everyone try to score the same goals inside the box.

    2: When a pass is played to a direction where there are two players on that direction; game always chooses the wrong passing option(the one that will get intercepted or the player on the off-side), it does not take into account the pass power for determining the intended receiver.

    3: When a pass gets intercepted by the opponent, the defenders gets confused and stop intercepting passes for a few passes, defenders despite their high defensive stats, act as if they have zero awareness. For example if your pass gets intercepted while a attacking, your opponent is able to pass to a very far player surrounded by 3 defenders easily due to defensive AI getting disabled for a few seconds.

    4: Passes goes through defender's legs despite the defender's good awareness and "interception" skills.

    5: Defenders losing balance and fall while trying to intercept the pass too frequently ( despite 80-89 defensive awareness and interception skill)

    4:Only two marking options, it should at least be three. People abusing the lack of defence options by using 2 CFs and an SS , so either one CF or the SS will be marking free. This leads to the whole user base using the same counter attacking tactic.

    5: When a pass is intercepted, the intercepting player gets unresponsive and transitioning into an attack gets more difficult than it should be due to bad passing+online latency+immediate team pressure.

    6: Cant not dash around or through sprinting head-on defenders, can not avoid sprinting defenders, almost no fouls are given against powerful teams, game

    7: Players with high attacking stats and almost no defending attributes or skills , do incredible defending for the player un-attended. Benzema, man marking a winger, Neymar shadow-marking and AMF , these are all done in favour of helping out the reckless and inferior side while the winning side gets the opposite. this not FUN.

    8: There is no effective way to reach developers, no discord channel, not a responsive twitter account, no forums, no moderator response. No developer streams where they play their own creation online against other players.

    The game completely looks like a rigged software occasionally showing glimmer of brilliance only to take it away for some time.    … Full Review »
  2. Forgotten
    Jan 21, 2023
    0
    Lousy football game. No CooP. Ranked matches feels fixed with Rank level 9 get matched against Rank level 3. Graphics plainly sucks. Just asLousy football game. No CooP. Ranked matches feels fixed with Rank level 9 get matched against Rank level 3. Graphics plainly sucks. Just as bad as Fifa but with less modes to play.… Full Review »
  3. TitanAvatar
    Dec 29, 2022
    0
    Countless times 60 to 65 percent possession and lose by getting the only goal scored against me in the 88th minute or stoppage time. While atCountless times 60 to 65 percent possession and lose by getting the only goal scored against me in the 88th minute or stoppage time. While at the same time not able to create a single chance all game long. This game has been deleted from my games list. Never deleted a game so fast and with so much certainty and relief. Also, the game feels clunky. The shooting is awful, no idea how to figure out how to actually FINISH. Even when I can create a clear goal scoring chance, 80% of the time the player doesn't score an easy chance. Ball feels like it's 50 lbs, can't create any beautiful, sweeping plays. Players won't run into space when any normal player would do it automatically. Possession games = no progression forward. The passing game in this game is just garbage. Last time this trash ever took my energy and joy. Stay away from games that take your energy. 0 stars.… Full Review »
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