Does any aspect of this game work properly? - roll2tide's Blog

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Does any aspect of this game work properly?

Posted on August 17, 2009 at 05:42 PM.

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Seriously, I'd love to ask Ian and crew just what it is we paid 60$ for. A working offline franchise? No. Progression, draft logic, trade logic, difficulty settings-all broken. Online franchise? No. Missing features, no draft pick trades, lack of commish control over rosters and game resets, no multi team ownership so you can run a 16 man 2 team per franchise, and a host of other failures leave this feature too incomplete. Online match play? No. All Pro is way too easy and way too short. All Madden costs extra, not many people did it, and the defense still uses 'cheating' instead of improved AI to increase difficulty.

So, EA devs, what exactly about this game works properly? Which feature, specifically, works exactly as you desired it to? Challenge system? Broken. Pro-Tak? The feature that allows a player to break through 4-7 tacklers? Whatever. Gameplay AI? Hah.....has anyone seen the "lost" defenders yet? Sometimes, a random player, usually a LB, is just walking around. I've seen it a few times in replays. I could force it to happen in the demo my calling man coverage, moving the LB kind of far away from his assigned man and switch off after the snap. The LB would just casually start walking across the field.

The passing is improved and the addition of Online Franchise is a good step, but only in terms of the fact that it should've been there 5 years ago. However, the 3-4 is completely broken, the Nickel 2-5 is still way too effective, EA highlights regularly cut out the first part of a play(where the cool stuff happens), and zone defense in general seems like it breaks down way too quickly.

I've already abandoned franchise mode and I'm about ready to give up on online match play which just leaves online franchise.

So, seriously, Ian and Phil......which aspect of this game do you feel is honestly working to your satisfaction? I know you'll never come across this but I think it would get deleted in the forums and at least this allows me to vent.

Comments

# 1 Sherman91587 @ Aug 17

Man calm down its a game lol. Its like going out and yelling at ppl because they are not pro when you play in the street haha. Madden does a lot of things right and what it does wrong I am sure you yourself could put into the devs at EA and it will be worked on for next year.

# 2 roll2tide @ Aug 17

Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those yelling, screaming, flipping out people who thinks EA is the devil. I do, however, feel a lot of frustration with the very subpar product that Madden has been on the NG consoles. And if you happen to come back and read this, I'd be curious to know which of the 3 major components of the game(offline franchise, Online franchise, and Online match play) works at least very well. Can you, or anyone for that matter, name any other game where not one single aspect of it works properly?