Downloaded it on my PS4, at first I though it wasn't worth the time since I don't have PS Plus, so I can't play online matches anyway, which is all this is, but to my surprise it let me play, so I played 3 matches.
The PS4 version looks almost identical to the PS5, I wonder if this means there's a chance of them releasing the real PES2022 on PS4 instead of just another Fox Engine game.
The first thing I must say is that I like the looks, kind of, I know it's not objectively good and that it'll get changed lots in the final game, also the lighting is very off, but the grass on night matches to me has a much more natural color than PES2021's, the green is easier on the eyes and I appreciate that.
The football itself, well, I'm not an online player, so naturally the difference to me was very noticeable, but I don't know how much of that feeling is due to going from offline to online, and how much it's from the actual gameplay changes. Still, I feel very confident in saying that this is very different indeed, the controls are different, the speed and movement feels different, there's more passing error, there are more fouls, I like it overall, I just hope we get to play against the AI soon, since online really isn't my thing. It felt slow and unresponsive at times, but again I'm not sure how much of that is due to the online aspect, maybe it's my connection or something, or if it's the direction they're going for, I like it when the pace isn't ridiculously fast, since it can be annoying to try following what's going on, and it's more tiresome and stressful to keep up with, but too slow can also be bad, I'm not sure if I'm happy with the pace or not yet, again I'm gonna have to wait until I can play against the AI offline, which is what I'm actually familiar with and into.
I lost my first two matches quite badly, conceded over 5 goals in both and only scored 1, didn't quit though, I'm not playing it to win or anything like that, I'm playing for the sake of playing the game itself and experiencing the gameplay, so I stayed until the very end each time, conceded goal after goal, but I had my chances and plays too, and when I got a nice play off, it felt pretty good, just messed up in front of goal really, and the defending, because not only am I not familiar with defending against real players, the defending system itself feels changed overall. The last match I was actually drawing 1-1, but then it ended because it was time for server maintenance or something, so very anticlimactic, just when I actually had a chance of not losing by 5 goals of difference, but that's ok.
Don't know what to think really, then again the purpose of this is to test the online, not the gameplay, the current developement must be way ahead of this, but it's impossible to not think about the gameplay and discuss it, and honestly, I like it, but I'm not fully sold on it yet, it has promise, but PES has shown promise many times before and messed it all up, so I'll just be cautiously optimistic for now.
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