Madden NFL 16 Review (PS4/Xbox One)

[tru11]

i must be playing a different game lol.

franchise is broken so much its really a disgrace.
confidence can boost ratings pass 99 ingame even affecting back ups.
regression kicks in from the start of a season for pretty much every team that looses.

results in an league is that teams that win have 90+ ratings real quick while the loosing teams have players drop even worse then last year.

then you have draft classes where rookies did not get rescaled like the base roster, resulting in rookie QBs having better DA then rodgers for instance.
loads of rookie WRs have 90+ speed ratings.

you can apparently only reset games that haven't been played yet. ( try figuring this 1 out).

auto sub does not seem to work.

after a game the game seems to freeze instead of going to the league menu but at least the music keeps playing.

players are disappearing from FA.
players involved in a trade seem to disappear as well if the trade gets declined.
tried trading for zack brown since he was on the trading block but the offer got declined and he is now nowhere to be found....

there are probably even more issues and god knows when we will get a patch and we have to pray that patch actually fixes most issues without cause others to arise..

unless you are a MUT or ranked player this game is not for you.

its maybe worthy of a 7.5 if you play anything other then franchise.
if you play franchise its 5 tops and im being generous.

[MrX]

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With the AI problems (blockers still run right past their assignments or simply fail to even attempt to follow through on them), it's laughable to give the game an 8. Irresponsible even.

Player assignment responsibility is a core of football. I'd think a site dedicated to sports gaming would be more critical of what is in actuality a game-killing issue, unless a person knows absolute zero about football and doesn't recognize it as a problem... which unfortunately describes the majority of Madden fans.

What a joke.

[tru11]

With the AI problems (blockers still run right past their assignments or simply fail to even attempt to follow through on them), it's laughable to give the game an 8. Irresponsible even.

Player assignment responsibility is a core of football. I'd think a site dedicated to sports gaming would be more critical of what is in actuality a game-killing issue, unless a person knows absolute zero about football and doesn't recognize it as a problem... which unfortunately describes the majority of Madden fans.

What a joke.

yeah i saw 1 of those and it was hilarious to say the least.

wagner who is probably 1 of the best pass blocking RT in the game decided to run up the field for 8 yards to attempt a pass block only to back peddle after the DE had a free run and thus sack on the QB lol

but everyone can attempt 1 handed catches now though so it must be okay.

[roadman]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Review (PS4/Xbox One)

i must be playing a different game lol.

franchise is broken so much its really a disgrace.
confidence can boost ratings pass 99 ingame even affecting back ups.
regression kicks in from the start of a season for pretty much every team that looses.

results in an league is that teams that win have 90+ ratings real quick while the loosing teams have players drop even worse then last year.

then you have draft classes where rookies did not get rescaled like the base roster, resulting in rookie QBs having better DA then rodgers for instance.
loads of rookie WRs have 90+ speed ratings.

you can apparently only reset games that haven't been played yet. ( try figuring this 1 out).

auto sub does not seem to work.

after a game the game seems to freeze instead of going to the league menu but at least the music keeps playing.

players are disappearing from FA.
players involved in a trade seem to disappear as well if the trade gets declined.
tried trading for zack brown since he was on the trading block but the offer got declined and he is now nowhere to be found....

there are probably even more issues and god knows when we will get a patch and we have to pray that patch actually fixes most issues without cause others to arise..

unless you are a MUT or ranked player this game is not for you.

its maybe worthy of a 7.5 if you play anything other then franchise.
if you play franchise its 5 tops and im being generous.

Eh, you don't have to be a MUT player or ranked player to enjoy the game for right now. This is just like any other year for me, I'm testing sliders for my taste in CFM, while waiting for the CFM patch to be uploaded.

Most of those issues you listed the community is aware of and the developers are in the process of putting out a patch.

7.5 for me right now, goes up to 8.5 with a patch for CFM.

[rywill24]

THEY NEED TO FLIP THE COWBOYS AND PATRIOTS LOGOS AROUND. They are upside down. A bit annoying and not that hard to fix. Been like that for years.

[Junior Moe]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Review (PS4/Xbox One)

At this point, we just want our Franchise to come back with a triumphant return. I know they probably wont meet our demands this year, but I wish next year they would just go all in with Franchise mode already. Does anyone else see the lack of space this game takes up for a current-gen game? It's only around 20GB, NBA 2K15 is around 45GB or even a little more. So that begs the question, why aren't EA making "more" of a game? It seems to me that this is one of the main reasons the majority of content in Franchise mode feels so short-sided. I'll use NBA 2K15 again for the example here, does it feel like twice the game compared to Madden? My honest answer has to be yes, and that is without even seeing 2K16 yet, which looks even more in depth.

Now, to be honest I really enjoy the gameplay Madden 16 has to offer. It's the best Madden has been in years. Sure, maybe there are a few to many one-handed catches, but that could be tuned down. On the field, we are all getting sick of the sidelines looking like they are from the PS2/Xbox era, but that comes down to the lack of space/programming used in this game. Also, presentation could be upgraded quite a bit as well. From the commentary, to the lack of the in-game ticker (both have already been mentioned before), to the lack of authentic player accessories, there are a ton of little things here and there that could bring this game to EPIC levels.

Overall, I really enjoyed the review from Chris. He touched on the majority of good and bad issues regarding this game. I am just curious if there will be a "2 months from now" review, considering there should be, hopefully (fingers crossed) some serious patches to come. I know I hope they focus on fixing the many issues plaguing Franchise mode and I also hope they fix a few on the gameplay side as well. Thanks again for the review, and we look forward to more write-ups/videos in the future.

My Madden 16 rating- 7.5-8.0

These are my sentiment exactly and how I would score Madden 16. I'd give it between a 7.5 and an 8. The on field gameplay is there, IMO. Time to get more "signature styles" in there now. That's about 60% of it in my view. I have been having a blast using Armors sliders. But everything else just feels so hollow. Being a franchise guy, CFM just does nothing for me. That's even without the bugs. Play now games get boring with no context.
I tried Draft Champions and it's sorta, meh. Love the skills trainer, though. They have the on field gameplay right now. I don't care that it took us this long to get here, I'm just happy we are here. They have delivered on that part for me. It's really time to dig deeper and flesh out the other modes and get the "little things" (signature styles, dynamic sidelines, commentary, presentation) on point. Then I'd put it up there with The Show and NBA 2K. I do feel like we're a year or two away from Madden being something special, that is IF they flesh the rest of the game out the same way they have with gameplay.

[kadzier]

Now that I think about it, apparently Pete Carroll had dynamic drive goals on last season in the Super Bowl.

excellent line, and exactly indicative of why I think these dynamic drive goals were a horrible addition, as currently implemented.

[phenom2311]

Not even close to the best football I've ever played as suggested by the reviewer. I suppose if you are diehard fan of the series, then this one is the best. This game has way too many inexcusable pitfalls and omissions for it to be the best.

[TreyIM2]

So far, focusing on offline game play only (I'm not an onliner), I give that 8.5 - 9. I love the way it plays and of course it's not perfect such as sometimes blockers either completely being oblivious to their assignments or realizing their assignments late then trying to' correct themselves' and what seems to be too many one handed catches, altho not horribly excessive, etc.

And I do really like some of the new presentation additions such as the stat bubbles and the new on field and wire cams. Funny how the visual of Simms and Nance were removed. Seems like a classic EA move of removing things to add others. Concerns me a bit as a going forward cuz I fully expect presentation to get huge treatment in the next Madden since game play is so well done this time and will only need tightening.

I haven't touched CFM yet because I usually wait for the starting regular season roster, anyway, plus now gotta wait for the patch. I always dug CFM and don't go to overboard with the particulars of it as many others may.

That said, I can see my score remaining in the 8.5-9 range, leaning more towards a hard 8.75.

[TypicalPhenom]

So, can you not turn the drive goals off? If you ignore them, as others have mentioned, do you not progress? Do your players regress?

[SGMRock]

I feel like the dynamic drive goals would be cool if they were more generic and also followed the flow of the game. Like your first drive on office could be something like put points on the board early for some momentum and give you a boost if you manage to get a FG or TD no matter how you score. if they game is close like you are winning by 1 point or something have the defense goal by to keep the other teams offense off the board no matter how you do it, turnover, force a punt or whatever. Late in the game if you are winning maybe a goal to burn the clock. Stuff like that where it looks at the game situation and the goals match that would be cool.

I totally agree with you that it forces you to play a certain way. Like get a passing TD to this specific player like a running back, but if you run it in with that back you get nothing. Or like me if you have the fatigue up a bit so you get realistic subs sometimes a sub is in and you end up rushing it in for a TD but get nothing because the wrong RB was in the game.

Basically this could have been a cool addition but was so poorly done it makes the whole game seem so much more arcade again. Right now I think they need to fix it by going to something generic like I mentioned above or give you a way to just turn it off. Unfortunately they seem to have tied this into the progression system to much now that if you don't do these stupid goals you get less XP to progress your players.

[ShaiLeGran]

What also kind of bothers me, is that games like Driveclub keep adding content after launch (paid or free), but don't bet on Tiburon add an in-game ticker after launch, or better sideline players. No, we have to wait for the new addition for these - minimal - changes.

[PX4]

I have been playing every year of Madden since I was 11 on my Sega Saturn... I made an account just to reply to this post lol.

I just returned Madden and got my money back. I give this game a 5/10.

Game play is improved from last year, I'll give it that. However... everyone on these forums should be incredibly offended that a company who recorded over 4.5 BILLION DOLLARS in revenue this year cannot put out a quality game. No improvements have been made to this game in three years. We are looking at TWELVE (12) BILLION dollars in revenue in three years and they cannot pay someone to put in a functioning ticker, half-time stats, nice looking sidelines, fix auto-subs, fix the draft... add immersion to CFM... the list goes on.

On top of all of that which was previously mentioned, a patch was never released that caused the game to crash and players forced to watch the Cam Newton intro again in last year's title. There was no 'day 1' patch this year to address the literally hundreds of issues in this years title.

EA Sports continues to put out a horrible title year in and year out. why? Because there is no competition and we are satisfied with this product because we have nothing else. I don't understand how anyone who watches football on Sunday can start a CFM and give this game a '7.5 or 8' with all the garbage currently in the game.

[Buckeyebrown]

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I have been playing every year of Madden since I was 11 on my Sega Saturn... I made an account just to reply to this post lol.

I just returned Madden and got my money back. I give this game a 5/10.

Game play is improved from last year, I'll give it that. However... everyone on these forums should be incredibly offended that a company who recorded over 4.5 BILLION DOLLARS in revenue this year cannot put out a quality game. No improvements have been made to this game in three years. We are looking at TWELVE (12) BILLION dollars in revenue in three years and they cannot pay someone to put in a functioning ticker, half-time stats, nice looking sidelines, fix auto-subs, fix the draft... add immersion to CFM... the list goes on.

On top of all of that which was previously mentioned, a patch was never released that caused the game to crash and players forced to watch the Cam Newton intro again in last year's title. There was no 'day 1' patch this year to address the literally hundreds of issues in this years title.

EA Sports continues to put out a horrible title year in and year out. why? Because there is no competition and we are satisfied with this product because we have nothing else. I don't understand how anyone who watches football on Sunday can start a CFM and give this game a '7.5 or 8' with all the garbage currently in the game.

If you can't see that they have made lots of improvements to this year's game then you are either blind or you have an agenda. Even the more hardcore players are saying it is pretty good this year

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[briz1046]

Re: Madden NFL 16 Review (PS4/Xbox One)

In strict accordance with the policy applied to OS posters shouldn't this be posted in the impressions thread ?