Well, its so awful - you can hardly tell.
As I am a masochist, I kept on playing - just because I love the game of football so much...which is not really common over here
In general, the CPU is favored in almost any aspect of the game.
You all know the experience having your WR one on one down the sideline? Let's assume they are at least EQUAL in OVR. Throw the ball deep to him 10 times. 1 time you might get a completion. You get picked AT LEAST 2 or 3 times, the other times will be incompletions.
Now, watch the same the other way round. The CPU will complete at least 5 times out of ten, when you're lucky, you will get one pick - usually you wont get one.
How many times have you heard "He droppes an easy pick" ?? I hear that a dozen times a game - of course its pointed into the direction of my guys.
The CPU drops less than half the potential picks your guys do...
Or hows about those linebackers, jumping 6 feet high and picking up your pass, those CBs not even LOOKING into the direction the ball is coming from, though picking on you or at least swatting the ball away???
Btw, why are curl routes almost completely broken? 8 or 9 out of 10 times, your WR will stop BEHIND his CB - great, but only for a sue pick, if you dare throwing to him. I know, curls were much to easy last year but thats no reason to render them unusable this year
All this and hundreds of little and big annoyances were promised to be taken away from the game - by this Ian guy. As we all know by now, this was simply marketing hogwash... Of course, you might call it lies as well.
Too bad, I believed at least some stuff and after fighting with myself, I bought the game. This time for sure, the last time.
I mean, I have no problem loosing a game or two or even more - winning every game would be extremly boring
If I throw into coverage - my fault - better next time. If I cant get any running game going - try harder. But if it is because your guys cant block ****, because the defenders cut off almost any block without the slightest problem - oh well...
As well as all those picks, of which so many are just plain cheated. No way, I play this any longer.
NCAA might not be perfect, though I find it a much more realistic experience. Surprisingly, a lot of this Madden crap doesnt happen there. I thought they were both based on the same game engine - funny enough how different a game can be...
Anyway, I dont want to bore you guys any longer... But after very frustrating weeks of trying to get it playable somehow - I gave up today and just wanted to express my deep and bitter dissapointment about the "totally reworked" Madden. It sure LOOKS better than any Madden before - buts sadly, thats about it...
Hopefully the NFL License will end one day. If that ever happens, the Madden series might as well die immediately because no one wants it any longer....