Madden Ultimate Team Alternate Take

[RaychelSnr]

Like many of the features added to current-gen Madden, Ultimate Team is a mode that performs much better in press clippings than it does on the playing field.

While the idea of building a fantasy team of your favorite NFL players is sound, Ultimate Team's execution is poor enough to make even JaMarcus "Mr. Indifferent" Russell blush.

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[jsquigg]

Wow. This article seems to contradict the review on the same website.

[taqiyya]

I know right. Bottom line though there is much truth to the article. I thought it was a great Idea until I put a few hours into it and was like ok now what? I remember day 2 people had these killer teams already. Great idea but to many holes. I will not fork over my hard earned cash to rent out football players.

Nice try EA but Hells to the no on this . :-)

[JMD]

I like Ultimate team. Yes I bought a few card packs to build a fairly decent team. I had was given a 1600 MS point card as a gift and I had 400 MS Points left over from buying cars for Forza 3, so I figured what the heck, let's take some of these points and buy some card packs. Also my business is slow this time of year so I can literally spend all day playing games against the CPU, laying a beat down on it and cashing in on 670 points a game. After spending a few days playing the CPU, I took my pot of coins and headed for the Auction block. I have built a solid team rated a 92 over all with a chemistry of 57.

I am finding online to be ok. Yes I've had a few games against cheese ballers but for the most part my opponents have been good players and played like they do in the NFL.

Could this game mode be improved? Most definitely, but it can also be fun as is if you have the time to spend or a few extra MS point laying around.

[CreatineKasey]

Atta boy Jayson! You and I want very similar features and characteristics out of our football games. The first thing I looked for when I downloaded this feature was to play my friends. There's an option to buy coins at every single screen, but no options to simply play a friend... yet they can compile a friends only leaderboard? Why friends only? What if my friends hate the mode too because of it's ridiculous pitfalls?

This mode was made for spoiled 12 year olds to suck money from the pockets of their parents. Sad thing is, those legend cards burn out after around games....

Enjoy..... NOT!

[boxboy99]

Wurd! Good article. I would have some value out of this if I could play friends. Instead I am stuck to facing a 12 year old brat that plays like a donkey. This would of been a great mode for APF. Leagues where cards are divided between users with contracts would be brilliant fun.

[jyoung]

If they had just added the ability to play friends and put limits on how many high-tier players you can have (like All Pro Football does) then this game would have been pretty fun.

Instead it's just something you download once and delete after a game or two.

I just don't feel like much thought went into the design of this thing other than "How can we get more money out of the Madden fanbase?"

[boxboy99]

I think I am just facing the facts the gaming and sports gaming is a big business now. Corporate America has become too worried about cost-benefits. What software can I provide at the lowest cost to make the most money. The bottom line is at the end of the day the only thing the machine is worried about is meeting the bottom line and making shareholders happy. Too bad for the developers and programmers who are out there working their butt off everyday are probably undermanned but still trying to make the best games they can with the resources given under corporate guildlines. Gaming is Hollywood now, the good old days where a couple of geeks could slap together a great game on a shoe string budget for the fun of it are gone forever.