Madden NFL 13 Review (PS3/360)

[TheBrooklynBaller]

Jets fan nice... I played last night with the 80's kelly green throwbacks and they looked great...

Yea the throwbacks are fire... I'm glad we got those back in the game... I hate the Titans ones lol on another note, I started a CCM as Rex Ryan... Now I stated before how upset I was at not having a franchise, but this mode is pretttttty nice. It's very in depth and I found myself digging deep and trying make my team better with practice instead of bypassing it like I would have in previous versions. Like I said... Still some wonky plays... But line play is dramatically improved if you play with patience and hit holes as I learned. Throwing as well... Patience is a virtue in this game but it'll work. Franchise guys out there... I was like you... What??!! No franchise??!! But really if you really wanted a realistic option CCM is givin it to us. Now once I'm done with my first season (I may play a few more after patches... And stick with the one that feels least wonky) and go through an offseason I'll let you guys know what I really think. I'm more offline than online but right now I can't lie I'm really having a good time with this Madden albeit with its flaws it's the best football game since 2K5 and looking very promising for future games. It's no longer just an updated roster (if they get NCAA draft classes it would be a dream come true) but a solid game as you make adjustments to however you feel comfortable. SDOTIZBAK23 on xbox for whoever wants to friend me. Take care fellas!!! Enjoy football video gaming once again!!!

[SermoVita]

The gameplay is nice, but if you think connected careers makes the replayability good you are sadly mistaken. I have played every madden since its inception and time spent playing isnt even close to the amount time most of spend on fantasy drafts and building our own team, and importing ncaa rosters to draft real players.

I have never once since we have been able to import rosters drafted a madden class. It's pointless. Why would i want to use fake made up guys when i can get the real guys.

This is the first madden since the day the first one was released that i wont buy the game, i already have a burned version im playing. I'm enjoying the gameplay but i cant even see myself playing this game by the time the real season actually starts. Online gameplay is always horrible, because you have to deal with ******s who want to run the same plays over and over. Which makes winning more than boring. Superstar mode or whatever you want to call it now is pointless. This isnt NBA2k. I want to play with real players no made up fake guys.

I would love to hear one intelligent reason as to why you would remove the fantasy draft. More people play fantasy football every year than even play madden so why would you make the game only good for online players? There is no reason to play this game now if you like to play offline and be "A Real GM/Coach". Fantasy Draft seasons are better than the real teams because the teams are on even playing fields instead having teams who small market big market mismatches like the real thing.

Gameplay = Good
Offline Gameplay = Ruined

If i want to play online for a game it definitely won't be on a console it will be on the computer where real online games are.

EA just lost me and 10 of its original customers. We have already burned the game and are refusing to buy it without fantasy drafts, position editing, and draft class imports.

A real football coach (which i am) would never want to play this. I cant make my own team, control it, and move players to the position they should be in on my defensive scheme. Why would i want to play someone elses scheme. When i am coach and run my own?

Sad day for madden lovers

[OhioBuckeyes7]

Greatest madden ever. the defensive sacks are not unrealistic. quit whining and learn to play the game. Fact quit complaining. go back to NCAA if you suck that bad. NCAA is garbage. and if your mediocre go play that arcade fake NCAA game. Madden is where it's at. NcAA is ok but not enough to keep me playing all year round like madden will.

[comen]

The gameplay is nice, but if you think connected careers makes the replayability good you are sadly mistaken. I have played every madden since its inception and time spent playing isnt even close to the amount time most of spend on fantasy drafts and building our own team, and importing ncaa rosters to draft real players.

I have never once since we have been able to import rosters drafted a madden class. It's pointless. Why would i want to use fake made up guys when i can get the real guys.

This is the first madden since the day the first one was released that i wont buy the game, i already have a burned version im playing. I'm enjoying the gameplay but i cant even see myself playing this game by the time the real season actually starts. Online gameplay is always horrible, because you have to deal with ******s who want to run the same plays over and over. Which makes winning more than boring. Superstar mode or whatever you want to call it now is pointless. This isnt NBA2k. I want to play with real players no made up fake guys.

I would love to hear one intelligent reason as to why you would remove the fantasy draft. More people play fantasy football every year than even play madden so why would you make the game only good for online players? There is no reason to play this game now if you like to play offline and be "A Real GM/Coach". Fantasy Draft seasons are better than the real teams because the teams are on even playing fields instead having teams who small market big market mismatches like the real thing.

Gameplay = Good
Offline Gameplay = Ruined

If i want to play online for a game it definitely won't be on a console it will be on the computer where real online games are.

EA just lost me and 10 of its original customers. We have already burned the game and are refusing to buy it without fantasy drafts, position editing, and draft class imports.

A real football coach (which i am) would never want to play this. I cant make my own team, control it, and move players to the position they should be in on my defensive scheme. Why would i want to play someone elses scheme. When i am coach and run my own?

Sad day for madden lovers

I think gameplay is the most important thing in a football video game but imo this years is garbage just like every year since the next gen. Now if the gameplay aint so good then you have to have a deep offline franchise mode to make up for it, but oops they screwed that up too!!

[rockit]

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EA just lost me and 10 of its original customers. We have already burned the game and are refusing to buy it without fantasy drafts, position editing, and draft class imports.

While I definitely feel your pain, but you will be back for next years Madden. That's how I was too, then I gave in again, lol

[SamoanSteelerFromAus]

# 21 SamoanSteelerFromAus @ Aug 30 (3 Hours Ago)
Its definitely heading in the right direction but I understand the cynicism from a lot of players because this foundation should of been layed a few installments ago. It's hard for some of us to jump up and down praising the game when we've been extremely dissapointed for years and in the back of our heads we KNOW how good this game could be RIGHT NOW if they didn't eff around so long putting in features then stripping them or simply just not putting the effort in.
Personally i still carry resentment because I know if the license wasn't bought, we would have a better madden in our hands right now and better nfl games from other companies... but more importantly I know 2k would have the most amazing nfl game out as we speak because I always found their engine superior.
I'm optimistic about the franchise but like I said, this has been owed to us for some time now so they won't have me throwing them a parade for something there obligated to do since they eliminated the competition.
Just my thoughts. Peace.

[SermoVita]

While I definitely feel your pain, but you will be back for next years Madden. That's how I was too, then I gave in again, lol

Actually I don't like ncaa, i only simulate four straight years to get the real players for real draft classes. As for play i have always been highly ranked and beat highly ranked players. That was never a problem, it just gets boring. For me to keep playing madden all year i need to be able to build and draft my own team the way i see fit.

yeah rockit ill be back next year cause i love madden since they stole the original gameplay from Joe Montana Football. I'm a simulation football guy and always will be.

For the 2k fans i owned every version even the dreamcast version, which in my eyes was probably there best game. The d-line play in 2k was better than madden has ever been. Which to me is the funnest part of the whole game. Obviously the sportcenter cutaways were brilliant, and when EA bought the rights i was so happy. But have seem the rights squandered because of no competition. You can only blame the NFL for allowing exclusive rights.

If they patch in a fantasy draft, player editing, and a draft class importing me and my friends will go buy the game, but for now ill play my free burned version when I need a quick fix.

[SermoVita]

"Gone are the days of ........ as well as the ability to do a fantasy draft. But the subtraction of those takes away absolutely nothing from the game in my mind."

This statement by the reviewer is mind numbing. You choose a philosophy of winning football and implement it through this mode. You test your philosophy against the AI or other live players. The knowledge of what it takes to build a winning football franchise instead of "Y button, LT, Y button, A, A, X".

In your mind, huh, Dustin.

WOW.

With the typos in the article and that statement right there .. you should be disqualified from reviewing 3DS games much less the biggest sports game release of the year.

This isn't so much Dustin's fault as it is the management of this site.

This is Madden. You can't assign a guy like this to review a release of this stature.

I completely agree. After i read that, i stopped reading it all together. Almost word for word what was said on Ign.com which is why i quit reading their review also. Without a fantasy draft the only thing to do on the game is play online, which gets super boring really fast when i win10 in a row and only one game is a decent game, while at least one is somebody trying to run non huddle withe 6 plays. lmao

[johnnydrake]

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(Restless Rustlings of an "Old Gent") I have been playing Madden Football since its inception Madden 95? (PC DAYS)..... I have enjoyed the gameplay each year with its graphic enhancements etc. However.....tomorrow morning I will be asking for a refund-exchange for MADDEN13. I am an OFFLINE user. Yes...I realize, a 53 year old Dinosaur who enjoys OFFLINE Franchise Mode (Fantasy Drafts...editing players...playing as any of 32 teams) I choose not to play ONLINE. Madden13 as olline gameplay is unuseable (Coach mode is NOT the same as Franchise Mode in Madden12. A lost year of simming an NFL season awaits. As as sidenote....I hope that the the rumors are incorrect.... EA NHL13 has also chosen to drop the traditional Franchise Mode........please "say it aint so.".........

[cjallure24]

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I've seen the phrase "headed in the right direction" about this game all through this board, and maybe people are optimistic, but I'm sorry, I can't give this title and EA another year off. It's going on 7 years and this franchise has gotten by on it's name alone not it's reputation of a great game. While other sports titles such as The Show, NBA 2K, and FIFA, and even the WWE titles on THQ have flourished, but Madden is still trying to find itself on this gens consoles. Every year we are introduced to new modes and features while previous modes we thought would be built upon have fallen by the waist side.

The people who like this game, more power to them and I'm happy you are enjoying it. For individuals such as myself who demand a better product for the given price tag, I would promote not settling. Because that's how I would have felt if I would have given in and purchased this game. I've been around these boards long enough to know that constant bashing of any title does not result in progression of said title or discussions pertaining that title. I'll speak louder with my wallet, then any words I can ever type on OS.

[TjJunior]

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If you love football..and you love video games then this years madden is a MUST BUY i would give it a 8.9 out of 10 ...without doubt the best madden EVER and im talking about pure football "on field" gameplay ...its just a blast to play madden again, finally... IMO opinion if you cant enjoy this years Madden 13 you need to give it up for good as far as video game football goes...just my opinion

yep, Madden finally matches APF in on field play in my eyes. Not gonna retire APF, but I see it getting a lot less play this season.

[TjJunior]

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(Restless Rustlings of an "Old Gent") I have been playing Madden Football since its inception Madden 95? (PC DAYS)..... I have enjoyed the gameplay each year with its graphic enhancements etc. However.....tomorrow morning I will be asking for a refund-exchange for MADDEN13. I am an OFFLINE user. Yes...I realize, a 53 year old Dinosaur who enjoys OFFLINE Franchise Mode (Fantasy Drafts...editing players...playing as any of 32 teams) I choose not to play ONLINE. Madden13 as olline gameplay is unuseable (Coach mode is NOT the same as Franchise Mode in Madden12. A lost year of simming an NFL season awaits. As as sidenote....I hope that the the rumors are incorrect.... EA NHL13 has also chosen to drop the traditional Franchise Mode........please "say it aint so.".........

Yeah I believe NHL is calling theirs connected GM. I never knew that guys were so passionate about fantasy draft. I can never do it because guys like t. brady and r. lewis I just can't imagine in another uniform, but I said the same thing about Emmitt Smith too. Im loving madden either way due to the gameplay. Try the NHL demo if you haven't, the gameplay will be worth it I believe.

[TjJunior]

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Maddens recievers are stupid! Why did I just watch my reciever step out of the way of the ball one side step left the DB runs up and takes it. Other times ball in air reciever doesn't make any corrections but DBs react to ball in air. All those in air fights for the ball are not real. The recievers do not fight or even play the ball at it's highest point. Sick of Maddens crap recievers. If I watch one more on a back shoulder fade in the endzone do the fall backwards feet in animation while the DB just stands there and grabs the ball Ill puke. Recievers do not read ball flight and adjust even a tiny bit at all the ball has to hit them. While Dbs can make in air reads. WHY does MAdden insist recievers are just glorified labradors that cannot think on there own.

Its because you were watching and not controlling your reciever. To get the results you want you have to control the wideouts. Maybe its just me but, the only time I see the CPU compete for a ball is when Im playing against the CPU. On my team, not hardly ever.

[l8knight1]

I need to spend more time with the game, but so far for me, passing is more fun and much better and I'm trying to get the hang of running. Running isn't as pretty as passing, and I've always thought the simple running animations since the next gen Madden was implemented were always weird and blocky looking. It used to be exciting when a runner broke away on ps2, now you wonder when the guy is gonna really sprint. Running animations are a bit robotic. I'm trying to fix settings to make the interface work better for me. Seems to be a lot of button mashing to get to menus I want, and menus are slow to react. This would improve entire experience. I also have never seemed to have gotten the camera views that I loved in the PS2 versions of Madden. For me, a better angle would improve my impressions on running. I feel I have little control initially on a run play because of it, but again, will spend more time with it. I've been a huge Madden fan since inception, and I do have to say that next gen had lost my interest for some time, but this new game is pretty and shows more potential and has me interested again. I used to love editing players as well. I was a huge fan of historic rosters and that has been gone for some time, but the NFL has had a LOT to say about editing current unis and players to EA, like it or not. Other issues with historic player/team editing includes lawsuits from the likes of Jim Brown, so I understand where EA tries to find a middle road. In the end, it's all about what happens on the field, and overall the game plays really well and I'm looking forward to some head to head and work in the lab. As for what I've read in this forum, I'm disappointed in the bashing as opposed to holding off and offering some solid feedback and advice on gameplay settings and setup that would help everyone. I look forward to everyone's feedback after some good lab time of your own.

[phantomremix]

for Madden 13 Update #1:

Please add fantasy draft to the connected career and add the ability to coach your games in connected careers (currently you can coach your games on the exhibition games, but it doesn't work in connected careers) If it has something to do with rankings than make it available only for Private online connected careers. They took both of these options out of last year's game and those are the two main things we do, draft our own teams and coach them.