Madden NFL 12 Reviewer Impressions: Franchise Mode

[virgil]

Did you ever get your draft class to port properly? When I tried it, major players didn't show up, Andrew Luck for instance

[jmurphy31]

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So far I have played all my preseason games (first time in a long while), cut players, scouted college players and played three games. I agree with a lot of what these guys have said. I am pretty happy right now with franchise mode and I think with a little help via a patch or tuner it might be even better. With that said the User interface is not very good and it makes doing little things annoying

For example..To have just the next opponent as the main screen is annoying. Every time you go into the franchise menu you have to hit Y. All of this information should be on the main screen. Plus when you exit out of Stats (an example), it doesn't bring you back to the franchise screen, but back to the next opponent screen..To me that is a little annoying. So far that is my main gripe with franchise mode...

[malky]

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It seems like everything I read about Madden 12 is conflicting. One place says everything is great and its the best Madden ever while another says it's the same old Madden and everything is a disappointment. The general feel I've gotten from the gameplay and franchise article is that OS is severely disappointed. Can't wait to get my hands on it so I can make my own judgements.

I'm with you dude, I think I might hold off for another couple of weeks till more revelations come to light.

[thegreatusurper512]

Has the wrong CBA. This franchise mode is useless.

[BrightFuture]

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This is the greatest football game me and all of my friends have ever played. Franchise mode is deep. Get your notepad out and do it the way all 25 and olders do it.

This site fed the hype for the last 5 years of complete EA football crap. Madden 07- Madden 11 were hot garbage. EA has done the seemingly impossible and made Madden good again.

I highly recommend it. It's right under MLB11 the show in my book.

[Jd_Seven]

Im just getting into Madden. I am extremely annoyed with the commentary. It kills the experience. For instance I have heard Calvin Johnson called by is number. Mason Foster called by another name..wtf? It wasn't a problem in 11..does anybody know what the deal is now? Doesn't NCAA announce most names. Even if you make a name change?

Also, has anyone else experienced frame rate drop during pre-game presentation of players coming into the stadium?

The freezing while scrolling through certain teams depth charts in franchise locks the game up (every single time, xbox 360)

The graphics and presentation overall are a nice change, but this game is DEFINITELY in need of being patched to fix these annoying bugs, with these minor faults gone this game has the potential to be amazing. Although do your own research into the game and obviously make your own opinion.

[TGross22]

Has anyone tried to upload a draft class from NCAA 12 on to Madden 12??? I tried a few times now and Ugevery time on go to scouting it's not the draft class from NCAA!!! Am I the only one having this problem? Can someone help me out!!!

[Anaxamander]

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Hey, can someone tell me when in franchise you import your NCAA draft class? I want to test mine out.

[LorenzoDC]

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It's completely beyond my understanding how the developers can do such a deep and broad overhaul of a mode like franchise and the reviewers can focus so much on the potentially real but nevertheless trivial things they don't like, in the whole scheme of things.

[bostonsports6857]

It seems like everything I read about Madden 12 is conflicting. One place says everything is great and its the best Madden ever while another says it's the same old Madden and everything is a disappointment. The general feel I've gotten from the gameplay and franchise article is that OS is severely disappointed. Can't wait to get my hands on it so I can make my own judgements.

dont worry about what they say on here, i find this particular group of follwers are WAY to overally critical. if players dont have leye black when they usaully do on sundays its the worst game they ever played.

[Batistaj15]

You mention that if you plan ahead of time for FA, you'll get your guy time every single time. Maybe not planning what you're going to do would make it 'funner' and just start bidding by remembering what aspect of your team's game was weak and you'll like to improve on.

[ggsimmonds]

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I have a gripe with the rookie scouting. Why is it that if I scout a WR during the first week of the regular season I unlock his defensive ratings such as MCV and ZCV; but if I scout a CB I unlock such things as RTR, CIT, and SPC?

It makes zero sense and it just seems like a cheap way to go about the scouting process. Basically if you scout a position in the first week you unlock the exact opposite ratings that are relevant. It is ridiculous.

[pmurray20]

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i uploaded the draft class right after the preseason and well everyone is on there and its fine

[cusefan74]

I already have a copy of this game reserved. I never listen to reviews of games. I find that people tend to complain a lot about little things, and I think after reading this that if things are a little clunky in the menus, I can handle that as long as the game play is good. After having played the demo I think it looks pretty good so far. The big thing to remember is that it is a video game and games are never perfect. I thought that Madden 11 and even Madden 10 were pretty good games, but I don't pick a game apart, if I enjoy playing the game, then its a good game. I will agree the scouting system sucks, not knowing before hand where they might go in the draft. If I remember right some of the older games had that, but like I said I can overlook that.

[ConnSKINS26]

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Has the wrong CBA. This franchise mode is useless.

And how were the devs supposed to add the new CBA to Madden 12, when the game was finished by the time the CBA was actually signed by the players and owners, and very few concrete details were known before then?

That was never a realistic goal for Madden 12, and if you thought it was, you went into this thing with all the wrong expectations, in my opinion. You're holding something against the game that was never within its reach, logistically.