Madden NFL 12 Blog - Franchise Mode in Madden 12

[jmurphy31]

Quote: Originally Posted by Block-O

Priorities....priorities....lol

I know...I guess I have to tell my wife and kid for another year to hold on until I finish my game (unless I am losing badly--jk)

In game saves are a convenient thing for me...not a game breaker. With these improvements I am still excited as ever

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by kmart2180

I swear I feel like they just took my wishlist and added every single thing I have written in the past few years all in 1 cycle................. Simply Amazing!!! Already pre-ordered now is just the long wait ahead but my excitement level is through the roof.

Well, no...two cycles. They made it pretty clear last year that the reason franchise would remain basically untouched in M11 was because to really do it right would take more than one year. The stuff we are reading about today is a direct result of that decision.

[JaySmooov]

Glad to see the franchise will feature real preseason logic when it comes to the playing time the veterans vs. the rookies will receive. For example, the backups playing the entire 4th game.

[buckeye02]

Quote: Originally Posted by JaySmooov

Glad to see the franchise will feature real preseason logic when it comes to the playing time the veterans vs. the rookies will receive. For example, the backups playing the entire 4th game.

You also benefit from signing older players as their knowledge of the game helps the team and players in that position. Instead of signing a younger player with around the same overall.

[TMJOHNS18]

Quote: Originally Posted by BenjiA

my main question: will we be able to edit the rookies' appaearances like skin tone and their faces? My concern is that with the real portraits they use for the rookies their generated players won't look like them. Are we able to edit anything, not only the ratings? And will we be able to edit the rookies before the draft? Or only after they have been drafted?

I wish the portraits were still kind of generated vrs real pictures, or at least maybe the hair style on the person could change. It will be annoying I think if you play long enough to where all players are generated, and you have like 15 of the same looking guys on the team. Wouldn't be different from past years, but seeing real faces kinda makes it easier to spot lol.

Overall sounds very awesome! NCAA and Madden seem to be day one buys this year for me. Well, unless NCAA's Dynasty is really revamped, cause I may not need to pick up Madden for a while if Online/Offline Dynasty modes are rockin'.

[JayInSaratoga]

These next 106 days are going to be unbearably long.

[NaturalSelected]

Quick one in case I missed it:

Is the potential rating among the items that can be edited for a player during Franchise?

[209vaughn]

Wow, looks like im buying Madden this year.

FINIALLY, we can have a simulation football game ON the field and OFF the field. (gameplay and franchise features)