....I am playing UFC 2009 I am 9-1 as a fighter in my career and 1-0 on unranked play online with 1 ko....I am also playing bioshock for the third time.
Bought inFamous so waiting for UFC from Gamefly... they've been pretty slow lately
Next purchase will be NCAA 10 and then Madden, I hope.
*uses restraint*
What a load of crap. EA has abused their NFL exclusivity more than Ike abused Tina. They TOTALLY rested on their laurels after they nabbed it and made such few REAL changes to the formula that it was borderline insulting. They knew that 2K Games were making a better product than them and rather than trying to counter with making a better game or countering with price, they totally shut them out of the market. That is the exact OPPOSITE of what our economy is based off of. That's the kind of crap I'd expect to see from the Chinese government, not a gaming company. And the Madden series was still dominating 2K in sales, so it's not like they were an immediate "threat."
The biggest change EA has made to the Madden Series in the past 5 years was the introduction of Madden for the Wii with motion controls. Sadly they weren't executed as well as they could be. If they can get motion plus working with it, it could be pretty damn sweet in the future. Sadly you still have to deal with graphics that would embarrass a Xbox launch title..
You have to admit though that the entire NFL videogame genre has suffered in the past 5 years due to EA's exclusive deal. Take 2K sports out of the picture, what about if SCEA had access to the NFL and we could have an in depth game like MLB: The Show? We've been stuck with the same stale franchise for the past half decade, and the NFL videogame experience has suffered as a result. Imagine if you only had one sports game provider for ALL of your sports. What inspires any developer to be innovative when they know they can put out sh*t in a box and still sell over 2 million copies each year?Except none of this had anything to do with my post
Literally, this year, they posted a youtube video of 2k's pass blocking or whatever (in a hurry so cant find it real quick) in their producer blog and showed how Madden now the new procedural tackling/blocking system does something similar. Also this year they've reworked all of the ratings, introduced online franchise (back after 8 years), relaunched their website to allow for stats from online franchise and dynasties, among other things. None of those are small or easy changes.
This should be the most improved Madden in several iterations, but to say they've done little over the past few years is to make yourself look silly. They've done a ton now that they've been on these platforms for a bit. I am all for being dismissive because you don't like a franchise, but they've made a lot of improvements in each edition for the last few years.
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