TOKYO: It was meant to “signal a new era of virtual football”, but Konami’s eFootball 2022 appears to have missed the goal, with players mocking its graphics and gameplay. The much-anticipated eFootball 2022 came out Thursday on PlayStation, Xbox and PC in an attempt to reach a broad sweep of fans. But so far, the revamped eFootball 2022 is failing fans’ expectations and racking up negative reviews, with only 8% of the more than 10,400 ratings so far on gaming platform Steam positive as of Friday. Serkan Toto, an analyst at Kantan Games in Tokyo, was scathing in his assessment of eFootball 2022. In promotional material, Konami had touted its new game’s “overhauled graphics, animations and gameplay” which “signal a new era of virtual football”.
