One of the least competitive spaces in the world of video games is with football titles. The FIFA and PES/eFootball franchises have always been considered too powerful to challenge, with few titles released to challenge them.
That is about to change with UFL, a title revealed at Gamescom 2021 that promises to be a real alternative to the two giants.
Criticism of FIFA in its presentation
Of the title itself, only two characteristics have been revealed. The first is that it will be a free-to-play experience, a path recently taken by Konami with its rebranding to eFootball.
The second and somewhat more controversial was the premise that it will be "fair to play", a play on words that hints at fairer systems than EA's aggressively pushed Ultimate Team mode.
Here are all the major announcements that Geoff and his team revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021.
