Madden Cover 27

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Madden’s peak was the early 2000’s and when it first went to PS3/XBox360. It’s gone downhill for quite some time now.

Michael Vick was unstoppable in those games

 

[Uptown]

 

[BennyBledsoe]

Madden is a joke these days. The PS3 era started the first obvious indications they were getting lazy and had no pride in their work. Madden 06 was a pathetic first console offering for the PS3. No depth, not even a commentary track.

Back when they were making the jump to the first PlayStation, EA didn't release a Madden because they were embarrassed by how poorly it played. The jump to the PS2 was one of the best Maddens ever.

Once the PS3 era started, things barely improved. And once Ultimate Team landed and microtransactions became profitable, that was the end. Gameplay became secondary. Hype became far and away primary.

 

[Patriot Missile]

Loved the early Madden Games for Sega Genesis. It certainly evolved into something other worldly and still buy one for xbox1x every few years or so.

But to me this game was the funnest to play.

 

[jdlboot14]

Problem #1 - it's a horribly unflattering angle - no professional marketing person should have approved that image, let alone a photographer taking that shot at such a low angle for a massive crotch-focus and minimal face recognition.
Probably a DEI duo there.
Problem #2 - It's insulting to the iconic Jordan image to try to prematurely anoint Caleb as even in sniffing proximity to being associated with it. Utter fail.
But who cares, it's just video games for sheeple.

 

[TheRainMaker]

We had a pretty funny offense... nothing as good as yours.

My offense was pretty badass and people would get angry I was using the Brady/Moss/Welker Pats. From playing the AI, I noticed the S's AI was terrible and they'd stop defending after certain amount of yards. So I started experimenting with the slot WR's on seam routes. Once the WR's cleared the LB, the S's had no chance if they split apart. My guys would have a clear path to daylight. Lol. It worked best the further you were out the end zone which was why I caught so many people off guard with a one play passing TD to start the game.

However, I had my kryptonite which many online players didn't have time to figure out. Nano blitzing was the one thing that would make it difficult for my offense to operate. Defenders running free up the A gap made it difficult for me to operate my usual offense. I'd have to go a short passing game and throwing to running backs. Some other online players were very good at timing hits over the middle which would cause fumbles.

Also, I was a menace rushing the passer. I figured out how to master speed rushing along the edge.

With three people you could set some hilarious blocks... that the pc wouldnt call.

We had a play or two that even by 1950s standards were consider illegal and just plain Dirty...

Everyone had their own glitches they'd find in the game to exploit. There were some online players that got really dirty when things wouldn't go their way and on short yardage downs. The C would take the snap and just start walking downfield which you couldn't stop.

Other players would "glitch quit" when they knew the game was getting out of hand so it wouldn't be a blemish on their record. You knew something was up when the game froze. There was nothing more frustrating than beating down an opponent with a good record only for it to not count after they tapped out.