Madden NFL 21 is currently sitting at a 65 on Metacritic, the lowest reviewed Madden since Metacritic began tracking the series 20 years ago, lowest by 9 points:
Game | Score |
Madden NFL 2001 | 91 |
Madden NFL 2002 | 94 |
Madden NFL 2003 | 95 |
Madden NFL 2004 | 94 |
Madden NFL 2005 | 91 |
Madden NFL 06 | 74 |
Madden NFL 07 | 80 |
Madden NFL 08 | 85 |
Madden NFL 09 | 83 |
Madden NFL 10 | 85 |
Madden NFL 11 | 84 |
Madden NFL 12 | 78 |
Madden NFL 13 | 81 |
Madden NFL 25 | 80 |
Madden NFL 15 | 81 |
Madden NFL 16 | 83 |
Madden NFL 17 | 82 |
Madden NFL 18 | 82 |
Madden NFL 19 | 80 |
Madden NFL 20 | 76 |
Madden NFL 21 | 65 |
The game is also getting terrible user reviews, currently sitting at 0.4/10 on PS4. And "NFL drop EA" is trending on Twitter, with people asking NFL to take the license away from EA and give it to another publisher, posting clips of horrible bugs in the game.