Madden NFL 15 News Post

More Madden NFL 15 Details Revealed

02:18 PM - April 28, 2014 by Steve_OS

After the Madden NFL 15 cover vote and the first official trailer were revealed, some more details about the game came from an official EA Sports Madden NFL 15 blog, GameStop and Amazon. It's not a lot of details, but at least it's something to talk about. Let us know what you think!

Madden NFL 15 Blog

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	Madden NFL 15 delivers everything fans need to own their rivals on both sides of the field, including the most immersive defensive gameplay control in franchise history. Like the Super Bowl XLVIII champion Seattle Seahawks, you can win championships and bask in the glory of success by building a great defense fit to challenge the best offenses in the game. Fans will also experience an entirely new broadcast presentation that delivers Madden NFL game day like never before with dramatic all-new camera angles, as well as dynamic pre-game and halftime features. It�s not just football, it�s Madden Season.

GameStop

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	Welcome to Madden Season! Madden NFL 15 delivers everything you need to own your rivals on both sides of the field, including the most immersive defensive gameplay in franchise history. With all-new player-lock camera angles, pass rush tools, open-field tackling mechanics, and smarter AI, you've never been more armed to take control of the defense and challenge the best offenses in the game. Madden NFL 15 introduces a revolutionary crowd-sourced play-calling system with three distinct ways to run offense and defense: coach suggestions, Madden community picks, and concept plays providing a strategic edge to take on all rivals. Dynamic pre-game and halftime shows, in-depth player profiles, as well as enhanced on-field graphics deliver next-generation broadcast presentation.

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Welcome to Madden Season! Madden NFL 15 delivers everything you need to own your rivals on both sides of the field, including the most immersive defensive gameplay in franchise history;
With all-new player-lock camera angles, pass rush tools, open-field tackling mechanics, and smarter AI, you've never been more armed to take control of the defense and challenge the best offenses in the game;
Madden NFL 15 introduces a revolutionary crowd-sourced play-calling system with three distinct ways to run offense and defense: coach suggestions, Madden community picks, and concept plays providing a strategic edge to take on all rivals;
Dynamic pre-game and halftime shows, in-depth player profiles, as well as enhanced on-field graphics deliver next-generation broadcast presentation

Game: Madden NFL 15Reader Score: 6.5/10 - Vote Now
Platform: PS3 / PS4 / Xbox 360 / Xbox OneVotes for game: 42 - View All

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# 181 ForUntoOblivionSoar∞ @ 06/07/14 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Aggies7


	As much as I believe EA doesn't put their best foot forward every year. I believe it was confirmed with multiple sources that EA did not have anything to do with lack of tattoos and it was the NFLs request not to have them

Except according to this, it wasn't. Ever. Which means that 100% of those "confirmed sources" were guesses and hearsay.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/5/5782...lin-kaepernick

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Originally Posted by Link regarding information from Madden's Seann Graddy


	Prior to that, some individuals had generic tattoos, but because tattoos have been missing from the franchise for so long, Madden fans assumed the cause for their disappearance was a mandate from the NFL in its licensing contract with EA. Not so, according to Graddy, who said that no such provision exists.

And there you have it. Why do people just believe stuff without legitimate evidence? On this particular topic, the "evidence" consisted of various video game reporters and news organizations not understanding why tattoos were done away with, and making an educated guess, and then quoting each other. (*you'll note that tattoos were still in PS2's version of Madden after the exclusive license...)

EA was never forced by the NFL to not do tattoos, at least according to the above link. They state here that the reason is fear of lawsuits by tattoo artists. The problem is that they had generic tattoos at the time, which makes it less believable. My guess is that at the time it was really a combination of both an unwillingness to deal with tattoo artists and and unwillingness to allocate resources to tattoos, particularly if they were going to be fake anyway. Why? Generic tattoos look fine on PS2, when the resolution is much lower and the graphics are far less realistic. But on 360 and PS3, generic fake tattoos would look pretty crappy. And real ones would require taking the effort to track down tattoo artists to gain their consent.

The funny thing with this topic is that so many people say things like "confirmed by multiple sources," but no one could ever actually produce one that has any evidence of the claim when pressed. They just at best would post a source that made the same claim, without the original primary source as evidence. Bottom line is it just "made sense" as an explanation, and everyone just assumed that the person they heard it from got it from somewhere that got it from somewhere that was legitimate.

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Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy


	Whoa! I guess that puts the player model speculation to rest, and it seems the NFL has let up on its stance on tattoos in game.

No, what it puts to rest is the PURELY UNSUBSTANTIATED SPECULATION that the NFL ever even had a stance. See above.

The explanation was made up out of thin air, and then repeated until it caught on and became "truth" in the minds of most of the collective Madden consciousness.

And here's why it caught on so well:

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Originally Posted by apollon42


	I will take your word for it, but I doubt the NFL had nothing to do with EA removing mouthpieces from the game. The ones that half of the NFL wear and that they had in the game 10 years ago.

# 182 cowboy_kmoney @ 06/07/14 12:18 PM

Hope all this goes well in Franchise Mode along with keeping track of award history like never before and real time injuries...

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