eFootball: Everything we know

PES is dead. Long live eFootball! After 20 years of Pro Evolution Soccer in the West, Konami’s long-running football sim is undergoing a radical rebranding. No longer a full-price game, this year’s entry is adopting a free-to-play model. And that’s far from the only major soccer shakeup. Ditching Konami’s previous engine, this is the first Konami football game to ever be built using Unreal Engine. With the terrifyingly consistent Lionel Messi as one of the game’s promotional frontmen, eFootball is aiming to play the sort of dazzling, mouth-watering football that'd make the Argentinian genius himself proud.A recent six-minute teaser trailer from Konami lifts the lid on the roadmap ahead, with brief glimpses of a revamped career mode set to replace the existing Master League model, and promises of online tournaments and esports competitions in the near future.Can these bold changes help Konami close the chasm in popularity between it and EA’s FIFA juggernaut? Only time—and a lot of scuff...