Some mocked what they saw as unflattering digital depictions of stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, who appeared cross-eyed in one screenshot posted on Twitter.
“Konami you really shouldn’t have released this in this state. This is bad… I mean really bad,” wrote one gamer alongside a clip showing a character’s arm jiggling into painful-looking positions as two players jostled on the pitch.
Another bizarre video showed Barca striker Ansu Fati’s character running towards the goal with his arms outstretched behind him.
Started in 1995, the hit football gaming series has sold more than 112 million copies, in addition to 400 million mobile game downloads as of April 2021, according to Konami.
But so far, the revamped “eFootball 2022” is failing fans’ expectations and racking up negative reviews, with only eight percent of the more than 10,400 ratings so far on gaming platform Steam positive as of Friday.
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