

It's a curious launch! It's all pretty rough, and the game doesn't even have the PES 2022 name in it. Hilariously, at the end of my match the PA announced a father had lost their son. The visuals didn't blow me away, the game plays very slow, and there's no commentary. (Konami has uploaded the new controls to its website.) Dash is now on R2 instead of R1 - as it is in FIFA - and L2 when defending makes the selected player press. It uses Unreal Engine 4 After years of PES games using Konami’s proprietary FOX Engine, the publisher has decided to build its latest game of footy using a custom-built version of Unreal 4.

Don't expect to carry over data from the test to the official launch version.
PES 2022 UNREAL ENGINE 5 PS4
There's cross-gen play between PS4 and PS5, and between Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S. The demo only has a limited number of teams available to play (Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Barcelona), each with a squad of 22 players. As Konami announced last year, it decided to switch game engines to Unreal for PES 2022 on next-gen. It's worth noting this demo is built in Unreal Engine. Konami warned players to expect errors, such as crashes. All aspects of the game, including gameplay mechanics, balancing, animations and graphics are all under development, Konami stressed, and have already been improved and will continue to be improved before the official launch. In a note to Eurogamer issued this morning, Konami said this demo is only a limited test version of the next PES, and its purpose is to check the quality of online matchmaking and connection to servers. There is no mention of it on PES' official social media channels, either. Konami did not announce this demo, which is odd.
