Did you also play it on the PS4? Does your opinion on the games differ across the different consoles, if so?
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I've played plenty of PES 2020 on PS4 and a few games of PES 2021 on PS5 (PS4-coded game obviously).
Actually got into Fifa 2021 a little bit in recent days but playing both side to side was quite interesting. Fifa, the ball moves quicker and the players seem to accelerate more rapidly without as much inertia or weight.
PES has better ball physics and the general flow of the game is slower. Fifa might have a greater range of player animations but some of them feel odd and jerky.
It's the same old arguments I know, everything that is not the actual football at ground level looks better on EA's game and that does make a difference. Liverpool's kits look great.
Now that I'm getting a hang of Fifa's defending, don't think it's a bad game. I still say with PES, because of the all the presentational flaws and the licensing issues, they will HAVE to deliver the best football game ever in PES 2022, or they are sunk. No one is going to pay £60 for a game that isn't brilliant, when they can buy Fifa which will at least have the teams looking correct in 4K.
In these sad times, it's fun to play with a Liverpool team that has Virgil fit and firing, I even have Naby Keita playing every week and you know what, he's brilliant!