Tom Brady is the Madden NFL 18 Cover Athlete, First Trailer Reveals Story Mode

[scottyp180]

Curious, do people actually get excited for and buy the special edition versions of these games? Seems crazy to me to pay $20 extra for ultimate team content.

[frostbyt]

Meh on Story mode unless it can some how start you in the last year of you college career, then do workouts and a combine and then you get drafted. As for the cinematic thing like NBA2K uses...PASS!

[DeuceDouglas]

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Curious, do people actually get excited for and buy the special edition versions of these games? Seems crazy to me to pay $20 extra for ultimate team content.

If it's the only mode you play it makes sense. I pay extra for games that have pre-order incentives that I value. Madden isn't one of them because I don't play MUT but for a lot of people all they play is MUT so it's a good deal.

[Cowboy008]

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Can't help but feel the Story Mode will leave the Franchise Mode largely untouched.

I hope not. Franchise is the only mode I play. You would think they would give each mode the same amount of time and attention.

[KennyJ1976]

Did you play FIFA? I've put in 500 hours this year and 650 last year. Animations are 100% different on the new engine. Gameplay is nothing like that it was in F16.

Did I play it? I'm playing it now. Players look the same and run the same. Yes they through a couple of new animations in there but overall, look and movement is similar to previous games. Madden looks to be following the same path. Hopefully I'm wrong though.

[apollon42]

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Both of those catch animations shown in the trailer were from 2017. If there was an overhaul, they would've shown something else.

[Godgers12]

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So does this come with the cheat codes already programmed in the game? Or do we have to purchase from the PS Store?

[DeuceDouglas]

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Both of those catch animations shown in the trailer were from 2017. If there was an overhaul, they would've shown something else.

Yeah, the Norman-Dez one was in 16 too.



I don't think it's that surprising though. If there was going to be an animation overhaul it would have been part of the feature set. None of the features are anything that require new animations it looks like so the game is going to likely look identical to 17 in terms of animations and player movement. And based on one of those Brady screens of him it doesn't look like the throwing mechanics have changed either so anyone hoping for a drastically different looking Madden in motion are going to be disappointed.

[Brooke2011]

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This is still a problem. The joints in madden are still inaccurate. This has plagued the game forever. I was hoping the transition to frostbite would alleviate this with better player models.

[apollon42]

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This is still a problem. The joints in madden are still inaccurate. This has plagued the game forever. I was hoping the transition to frostbite would alleviate this with better player models.

Looks like Popeye

[bigboyc]

It will look different with play model movement. The horse walk should be gone because of the engine. That was a legacy issue.

[apollon42]

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It will look different with play model movement. The horse walk should be gone because of the engine. That was a legacy issue.

Those animations look the same. The engine just changes the lighting and graphics.

[JZi10]

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Well, I know it's the first look trailer, but there is no shooters sleeve on the arm of a player who wore one for the last 15 games of 2016

[bigboyc]

Those animations look the same. The engine just changes the lighting and graphics.

Wrong. You are judging on a pre-rendered 30 secs clip. Come on......jump to conclusions now.

[bigboyc]

They are not going to show everything is a teaser. Get a grip, people.