You won’t be able to use your full last name, you have to type a name for the college section that the game is OK with. Sorry Midwesterners and northerners, there’s not a single B1G school represented.Īfter you commit, the story reveals that some stud QB transferred and took your spot, then got injured and the only two games you play in college are the National Semifinals and Championship (assuming you don’t suck ass at the game).

You get to choose one of several colleges to commit to - mainly the ones that have had premier QBs taken in the first round recently: USC, Oregon, FSU, Florida, OU, etc. Instead, you can customize your appearance to a solid extent - it’s not 2K level and I don’t know why they couldn’t just scan your face, but it’s a huge step up. What I’m getting at is the awful, forced stories of the previous Madden games are no more. (They have a Hispanic coach and their interception leader is a white guy, literally what is that team?) The Carolina Panthers are the only team in NFL history to even approach that MLK level of looking at player ability instead of race. No, EA, a black QB throwing to a white speed receiver is not realistic. You begin by customizing your player’s appearance instead of just selecting from pre-made faces or the god awful junk that was the story mode of Madden 18 and 19. The QB1 mode is like a methadone clinic for the junkies who still crave the sweet, pure rush of NCAA or Superstar mode from Madden’s past.

I’ve been a healthy skeptic of EA’s predatory business practices for a while now, so there is going to be some bias here but that’s what the website is named for s, deal with it. Madden 20 isn’t actually that bad, I’m still just angry about Game of Thrones.Īnyway, after shelling out $60 for the privilege of playing a video game that I’ll spend hours updating myself after the NFL season is over, I figured I’d give everyone who has better impulse control than me a bit of a breakdown of the game.įull disclosure, I bought the standard version of this game from the Xbox marketplace as a download and did not own Madden 19.

Much like Game of Thrones, the most recent iterations of Madden have removed key components of the foundation that made it great and replaced them with flashy bells and whistles that look great upon first viewing but totally fall apart when given anything more than a cursory glance.

These are not opinions, but objective facts. Madden 08 for the Gamecube was the single best professional sports video game of all time, with NCAA Football 14 for Xbox 360 being the greatest overall sports game of all time.

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