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averyblund on 15 August 2009

I for one like the visuals. Very Blitz like. As a whole I'm disappointed that EA shorted Wii owners on features, but the core game is the best it has yet been on Wii.



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theRepublic on 15 August 2009
Crazybone126 said:
And that's the reason why this version sucks. You can't create your own team, there is no real season mode, it's shallow, the graphics are marketed towards the wrong crowd, there are no fun modes as IGN said, the controls aren't the best in this version either. What makes people think this game stacks up to the other consoles? It's missing everything.

Madden has always been known to be a hardcore game. It's practically built into people's brains to say Madden is a hardcore game. Now after all these years, EA decides to think that developing the game for people who never purchased it in the first place will make the game sell. Sorry EA but hardcore players were the ones who were always buying Maddens because they always thought it was going to be better than the last Madden. This year totally sideswipes that and actually backtracks the franchise on Wii. You see, tennis can have a simplistic art style like this, because it is a simple game. My 3 year old can play a tennis game. Tennis was always marketed as casual on the Wii since the Wii launched. With Wii Sports Tennis. It had a simple look just like Grand Slam but the motion controls made the games different. This year, Madden doesn't even have motion controls really. The art style for Madden didn't bring anything groundbreaking to the Wii, it didn't even bring anything interesting. Instead for the art style EA gets rid of all the modes that made Madden interesting by putting some ridiculous gimmick instead. Just another marketing ploy by EA.

Franchise mode is still there, it's just the same as last year.

As for the other modes players know and love, Franchise, Superstar, and situational mode are included, but they're hidden away as unlockable bonus modes, and they come with a huge catch. Nothing is changed from last year, with just a simple team roster update piled on top of an old interface, old options, and no additions at all. The game even changes from the cursor-based menus and look to a plain white background with d-pad/analog stick controls only. This was obviously just an afterthought addition, or a way to downplay the unchanged status of Madden's core modes. Madden 10 rocks in the multiplayer category, but for single player use – even those looking to take the game online – it's 100% more of the same. If you want big additions to the franchise mode (such as online franchise play) you'll only find it on the HD consoles.



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Crazybone126 on 15 August 2009

And that's the problem, why unlock a mode that should be there from the get-go. Especially if the game is for the casuals.



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Crazybone126 on 15 August 2009

OMG RolStoppable that just made me LOL.



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Cobretti2 on 15 August 2009

this game is preventing me from getting tiger woods 10.


Every year I email EA telling them PLEASE don't fuck up one of your sports games. I want to buy them all in one year. but every year something lets me down.



 

 

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SaviorX on 15 August 2009
RolStoppable said:
Crazybone126 said:

And that's the problem, why unlock a mode that should be there from the get-go. Especially if the game is for the casuals.

Casuals would be scared by a game mode with complexity. Remember, they are retards.

Don't give them THAT much credit.



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digitalentourage on 15 August 2009
Crazybone126 said:
That will probably be the BS remark that EA comes up with. Casuals don't play football games, why market a game towards them? The only reason Madden sold "somewhat" before was because hardcore players thought it was going to be a step forward. Now since this game is a LEAP backward, it won't sell on Wii.

excuse me? only casuals play any sports game.



Monteblanco on 15 August 2009

Crazybone126 said:
[...]
Madden has always been known to be a hardcore game. It's practically built into people's brains to say Madden is a hardcore game. Now after all these years, EA decides to think that developing the game for people who never purchased it in the first place will make the game sell. Sorry EA but hardcore players were the ones who were always buying Maddens because they always thought it was going to be better than the last Madden.

[...]

Actually, EA Sports strategy makes a lot of sense. You're right in the fact most Madden fans are hardcore sport gamers that enjoy the deep gameplay offered by the game. However, this complexity is exactly what scare casual gamers who might be interested in football. What EA Sports is trying to achieve is to reach the sport fan who is not a hardcore gamer. Considering most hardcore sport gamers will prefer the XBox or the PS3 versions anyway, EA Sports is doing the right thing trying to create a different product for a different public. Actually, a much larger public than Madden fans. 

I haven't seem the game itself but like the cartoonistic visuals. They usually fare much better than photorealistic efforts in the Wii.