At one point in time, there was only one football game in town: Pro Evolution Soccer (PES). This game dominated our PlayStations and our childhoods with its high point arguably being 2005’s Pro Evolution Soccer 5. Those days are long over, in what seemed impossible at one point gradually became inevitable thanks to the corporate might of EA.<\/p>\n
This came after EA bought its way through licensing and captured the imagination (and ultimately player’s wallets) through Ultimate Team, and ultimately resigning PES to a quasi-mythical status.<\/p>\n Of course, PES never really went away, but instead just became less relevant. This year, Konami finally put the game (or at least the name) to bed after it renamed PES as eFootball. More surprisingly, however, is that it is going to be entirely free-to-play.<\/p>\n The game is appropriating the “game-as-service” model approach seen in Fortnite and Apex Legends. Players will also get regular updates, starting with the free Autumn update that will introduce an Ultimate Team-like mode.<\/p>\n