The free-to-play, Cristiano Ronaldo-sponsored PS5 football game UFL will get an open beta test on Sony’s system later this week. You’ll be able to try out the EA Sports FC 24 and eFootball competitor between 7th June and 9th June, and you won’t need to jump through any hoops to gain access. The title did receive a closed beta test last year, but this latest sampler is open to everyone.
The game is promising a fairer online experience, and has been in development at Cyprus-based studio Strikerz for several years using Unreal Engine 5. Whether it can actually compete with the EA Sports juggernaut, however, remains to be seen; despite what you may think about the FC franchise, it’s building on years of iteration and technological improvements, and it’ll be tough for anyone to close that gap.
Still, you can find out for yourself by pre-loading the beta through here. As mentioned above, this is totally free to try, so you’ve not got much to lose by giving it a go.
[source youtube.com]
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Not all that convinced but eh, competition is good. The F2P structure I just find encourages the worst practices with these games though, eFootball is a shadow of PES’ greatness now and the shift towards live service is a huge part of that.
It needs to be better than the atrocious efootball. A low goal to reach but who knows. It also seems to skip last gen.
I mean the bar is really low atm in terms of gameplay. Even if it doesnt have the most advanced graphics, if the gameplay is actually decent I am more than prepared to sink hundreds of hours into a football game.
Oh? Is this the new FIFA licensed game or something?
I guess we'll see.
@Nem
No this is something completely separate altogether.
I'm also picking up Sociable soccer 24 for the Switch on Friday so it seems all the football games are coming along at once
@nessisonett Hopefully the 2K/FIFA rumours are true, not that I have any love for either of those but competition is important regardless.
As gameplay is important to game I can agree, but playing games with generic Teams/Players is not interesting for me. It is hard to break into Football because it is expensive to buy those licenses if those are not Exclusive in first place. Look at eFootball, buying up some Italian clubs and League name exclusively.
@nessisonett Biggest crime is that eFootball is still missing Master League. They promised the mode eons ago
@Legacy2K Oh absolutely, Master League was brilliant. As much as the newest FC24 is alright, it does lack the fun gameplay of the PS2 PES games. I’ve been enjoying playing the Classic Patch mod for FIFA 14 on PC though, nice to be able to play as the ‘67 European Cup winning Celtic squad!
Sorry unless your going for ultra realism or pin point controls there is no competition for the fc games.
Love or hate the game but it is a solid football game and no one has come close to it ever since pro evo got destroyed.
Just an FYI that wasn't mentioned in the article, for the unaware this is online only with no offline mode. To my knowledge the game is strictly going to be PvP. Don't play sports titles online so this is of little interest to me.
I could see this being a blow to eFootball if the game play is good enough. Konami basically release a worse version of eFootball '21 as their F2P game. If a 2K/FIFA partnership materializes and has both online H2H and a career mode that seems like more of a threat to EAs dominance.
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