Madden NFL 25 Review (360/PS3)

[Gorilla Glass]

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Well let me help you out here...

SIMULATE THE GAME OF FOOTBALL!!!!

Thats all we want, we want the authenticity of what we see on Sunday and not this rinse and repeat the same plays no matter down and distance of exploiting the AI when in real life that wouldnt happen like that!

Satisfied?

Nah not at all. Everybody see things on Sundays differently. What do you see on Sunday that's not in the game.

Watch yourself too, we're discussing video games here...

[Robcards]

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Oh wow, 7.5.

Its football, it come out for 25 years. I don't think you guys know what you want from football anymore.

On one hand, if it too SIM, then its boring and on the other hand if its a little over the top then its too arcadish.

Hell, at this point I don't know what to look for in a Football game anymore...

A million facepalms for this. How exactly would SIM football be boring? How many people that don't enjoy watching real NFL football buy Madden? This statement absolutely baffles me. If you think SIM football is boring then what? You don't enjoy real football? Why play Madden? I can't even fathom this...

[ghettogeeksta]

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This is such a bogus review. Between the review copies being given to various loud mouthed and annoying youtube channel owners and sim players and gamechangers who were forceably tight lipped until the 23rd. This review along with alot of the negativity towards Madden 25 comes as no surprise. Everyone herald's 2004 as the pinnacle of video game football, yet next gen has been completely ignored as any achievement past its predecessors.

I played the demo. I played the madden 13 demo. WORLDS apart in gameplay and presentation. Madden 25 trumps it and trumps any effort before it INCLUDING MADDEN NFL 2005.

basically we got alot of bottom hurt players here wanting realism for sake of realism, when this is as real as it can achievably get...

XBOX 1 and PS4 will make on difference this is the same skeleton of a game and you can tell . Madden 25 plays like a low res next gen game and i love it.

The pickiness of some ppl annoys me

Have you played other sports games like Fifa, The Show, and NBA 2K, how do you think Madden compares to those games as far is player movement, player individuality, A.I. Options, and features?

[swaggedout]

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The definition is simple, sim is artificial reality. Everything that is humanly possible is sim. Nba jam, blitz, backyard foodball= not sim.
No game in my mind will ever be totally sim. As far as the review go, all I can say is, if you like the demo then I think you'll like the retail version.

[Gorilla Glass]

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A million facepalms for this. How exactly would SIM football be boring? How many people that don't enjoy watching real NFL football buy Madden? This statement absolutely baffles me. If you think SIM football is boring then what? You don't enjoy real football? Why play Madden? I can't even fathom this...

I don't understand your point of view. Please clarify.

[friscob]

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Sometimes I think most ppl's definition of "sim football" doesn't even include current NFL and college football where offensive schemes have evolved. I really just don't like the term "sim". IMO the game needs to be mostly realistic but also have a few arcade type characteristics to make it enjoyable as long as the arcade-y features aren't too overpowering.

[ghettogeeksta]

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People seem to be comparing Madden to Madden that is a mistake imo. That's like comparing Tyler Perry movies to other Tyler Perry movies, is their really a good choice? But if you compare them to each other the scores would be relativity high, but if you compare them to other movies at the box office they will rank really low on the list.

[Sneed24]

i like the new hitstick compared to falling over in previous versions

[rudyjuly2]

I agree with the user run blocking being overpowered at times. That was something I was worried about in the demo. Hopefully any major issues like simmed stats will get fixed quickly by EA.

[swaggedout]

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People seem to be comparing Madden to Madden that is a mistake imo. That's like comparing Tyler Perry movies to other Tyler Perry movies, is their really a good choice? But if you compare them to each other the scores would be relativity high, but if you compare them to other movies at the box office they will rank really low on the list.

Bad comparison, Tyler has made some damn good movies.

[ghettogeeksta]

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Bad comparison, Tyler has made some damn good movies.

True, I actually like most his movies but at the end of the day for some of his movies, im able to say, I enjoyed that movie but it was pretty bad. Just because something is bad dont mean you can't like or enjoy it.

[Armor and Sword]

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How can you play a game like The Show and agree Madden is a good sports simulation game.

Ok let's get something straight. Where do I use the words good simulation and Madden in the same sentence.....ever?

Hey I love playing a good game of "Madden". Is it a great simulation of NFL football? Nope. It has all kinds of things that make it more arcade than simulation. So what I do is play the game my way.....and as long as it functions properly like many great "Madden" games of the past then I have a blast.

I would never even entertain the idea that Madden can compete with the amazing Show 13 or NBA 2K11 as a true representation of it's respective sport.

But damn when Madden functions like Madden should....it is a heck of a good time. It does some great things and some things it does not get right....but for me the good outweigh the bad most of the time. I make my rules, slider adjustments....and have fun.

[tarek]

No mention of coach mode in the review nor the comments. So I want to ask, is there a proper coach mode in this version? And not the auto-throw version of madden 13 but a proper coach mode which enables a scrambling QB to actually run etc etc.

[TheBinnzer]

To the folks who gripe about the adding and taking away of features.. how is this franchise supposed to reinvent itself every year without new features that may eventually be replaced by others?
There are tons of features we can go back to that this applies to.
If the game was perfect (every feature and graphics/gameplay perfect) and EA only added only new rosters each year... could you imagine the griping then?
The revolving features are just the nature of a yearly franchise.. a franchise based on a game that rarely changes.. in the last few years, how many real changes have come to the NFL?

We have had running QB's change the game in real life, and he read option is being ran in the NFL
We have had spectacular passing season totals, and AP almost broke the rushing record.

Does that sound like a ton of content to base a 4 years of updates on? Of course not.. so EA has to make stuff, add features if you will to make the annual game release interesting.

[Radja]

when i saw the amazon.com sunday ticket offer, i got skeptical. sunday ticket had to be hurting a little to offer something like that, for sure. however, i was worried that madden was doing anything to get pre-order sales up also. i think they knew they had only a marginally better product and once that was discovered, sales would flatline.

i was waiting for this and pastas review. so far nothing has been said to change my original thoughts.