What's the ONE thing you must see in Madden 14 before you buy it?

[jpdavis82]

For me it's a tie between

Player Movement( running animations, footplanting)

Offensive and Defensive line to become a real struggle and take weight and momentum into account.

[rudyjuly2]

I love those two wish list items but I would probably buy Madden 14 if they weren't in the game and just live with it. I'd love to see in game saves too but that won't cause me to not buy the game.

For me the one thing they have to do to get me to buy the game is improve the cpu AI. I'm an offline gamer only so this area is crucial and was a big black eye on M13. Smarter play calling, smarter decision making by QBs, smarter situational AI (knowing when to play tight on third and short, late game AI, etc). The cpu is flat out stupid in this game and the overall AI has dropped from the past. EA this gen has made the cpu a freaking moron and I feel the AI still isn't quite up to where the PS2 was. Instead of having AI that is 6-7 years into a next gen life and improved we have AI that was so terrible at the beginning of this gen that it is barely passable right now. It is the one glaring thing for me that needs fixing.

One day when I play the cpu in Madden I would love to say they are playing smart and like a human. I have no idea when that day will come but its years away.

[K_GUN]

fluid player movement....pre/during/post gameplay

simple as that

[Von Jenkins]

It must be able to import draft classes from NCAA 14.

[azdawgpound]

i agree with all stuff the OP and and second poster said smarter AI im tired of seeing bad play calling or the cmp just keeps running the ball 3 straight times in row and punting.... or having a chance win game by a fg and throwing up a hail mary pass. also how about working on glitches that are still in game from the ps2 days and havent been fixed. also morphing players fixed would be nice as well.

[hawkytom]

Same as M13.. Co-Op in franchise mode. After it came out with a patch I bought M13. Hopefully they will launch M14 with co-op and not make that same mistake twice!

[TreFacTor]

There isn't one improvement by itself that could make Madden 14 a day one purchase for me.

I need to see:

*Improved AI play calling, situational awarness, mismatches

*Improved offensive and defensive line interaction (this is a huge one, I need to see the Dline win or lose in more varied ways, Defensive ends take better angles and a real pocket form, realistic pressure from good 4 man fronts without the DT blowing up the middle every single time) Double team blocking on BOTH run and pass plays!

*A halftime show or at least more than one replay, halftime should tell what happened until that point and post game should show how the winning team won and how the losing team lost.
A weekly wrap up would help but I'll settle for in game improvements.

*I need to see that animations aren't controlling the action and that the infinity engine is in fact doing what it was ADVERTISED TO DO

*All of the missing features from 12 need to return and function properly.

*Foot planting and more realistic player movement.

---EDIT---
*I NEVER want to see synchronous animations EVER again seeing 4 lineman hop skip over the same person one right after the other is laughable at this stage of gaming...there's only 22 onscreen at one time...why can't they all act/ animate individually?

I've been playing this game for too many years to give it a pass for getting just one of the above correct. Madden has had long enough alone to get even it's own vision of NFL football nice and tight, anything less is unacceptable.

[cuttingteeth]

A $60 mail-in rebate voucher.....and everything Tre listed.