Madden NFL 25 - A Deeper Look Into Connected Franchise

[Steve_OS]

EA Sports has posted another Madden NFL 25 blog, written by Creative Director Mike Young, as he goes deeper into Connected Franchise. Here are a few bullet points. Some you may or may not already know about.

• Import draft classes from NCAA Football 14 into Madden NFL 25
• Offline 32-team Control
• Control player or coach in the same Connected Franchise
• Goal to allow players as much control over their Franchise as possible
• start a league with a Fantasy Draft Before you start your Franchise (online/offline)
• Refined user interface, reworked the trade interface and added a transaction log
• Added the ability to change your players’ positions (For example, move DB to WR, DE to LB)
• More legends added

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On the presentation side, we’ve got a lot of exciting additions for your Franchise experience. Darren Rovell, Paul Lukas, and Mike Clay are just a few of the new names in sports media that will bring added depth to the News Center. Commentators will also fill you in on standings, season stats, last week’s game and more. In addition, experience all-new branching Draft story lines brought to life by Trey Wingo AND Adam Schefter.

Source - Connected Franchise Deep Dive (EA Sports)

[DeuceDouglas]

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Do you want to change the sock heights of every player in the league?Well now you can.

Unless of course you have striped socks. In all seriousness though, not much new here. New interface, new this, new that. They've been really vague with what they've been releasing. Finally figure out (kind of) what capacity Schefty has. Still want to see more about actual presentation in terms of in-game though.

[jpdavis82]

Nice to hear about draft storylines with Trey and Adam, hopefully he does in the game what he does in real life. Give you the latest scoop on who may be going where.

[CarryTheWeight]

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Commentators will also fill you in on standings, season stats, last week’s game and more.

This is what I like to hear, though how dynamic the commentary will be is what I'm most interested in.

Will it be "Rodgers threw for 3 touchdowns in his win against the Panthers last week"? Or will it be, "The quarterback was great last week against his opponents"?

And will current gen or next gen have the edge on what can be done with dynamic commentary? I'm looking to see how commentary will improve from last year. FIFA and NHL already do a decent job with dynamic lines (along with popular games from other publishers).

We'll see if Madden follows suit, along with if they'll place a greater emphasis on in-game broadcast overlays and supers (along the lines of what NCAA appears to be doing this year).

[TryHard_Nation]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

This is what I like to hear, though how dynamic the commentary will be is what I'm most interested in. Will it be "Rodgers threw for 3 touchdowns in his win against the Panthers last week"? Or will it be, "The quarterback was great last week against his opponents"? And will current gen or next gen have the edge on what can be done with dynamic commentary? I'm looking to see how commentary will improve from last year. FIFA and NHL already do a decent job with dynamic lines (along with popular games from other publishers). We'll see if Madden follows suit, along with if they'll place a greater emphasis on in-game broadcast overlays and supers (along the lines of what NCAA appears to be doing this year).

Curious about them saying commentators as opposed to specific names.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by CarryTheWeight

This is what I like to hear, though how dynamic the commentary will be is what I'm most interested in.

I don't get why they're not going more in-depth on stuff like this. I completely missed that line the first time I read through and that's something that I would think could deserve it's own entire blog. He mentions presentation but no mention of the new score banner, overlays or anything, I just don't get it.

[jmurphy31]

Nothing really new except the part about schefter. Just seems like they just repeated everything we already knew.

Also, didn't they say the same thing last year about the commentary reflecting your season.

[Blazelore]

Those commentators are the only thing thats new. Everything else aside the new interface was already in Madden. Taken out then readded. All those things shouldn't even be bullet points, they should be side notes. Instead of import draft classes being added back it should be "we fixed the draft classes so they won't import so out whack!" I mean I was hoping to hear"Now you can watch players at the combine or invite undrafted FAs to training camp. Something like that would wow me but this is the reason its so hard to get excited. With franchise what's actually new???