Madden NFL 13 Connected Careers Mode Preview

[misterkrabz]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

I'm 100% with you. This is typical EA...the more things change the more they stay the same.

100% with the idea that you can no longer play local multiplayer franchise...I was hoping for online franchise but I haven't heard anythign about it. The offline single player "coach" or "player" franchises sound ********.

[FreAk47]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

Not interested in either mode. Will never even look at it. Still waiting for an online franchise that can be played with as little as 2 human players with full stat tracking for cpu controlled teams. Does this years Madden have that? Don't care about Twitter...I never look at it and have no intention of looking at it. EA please give me some details about online franchise.

Really? After all the blogs and videos explaining that online franchise is now incorporated into connected careers you still need further explanation?

[SA1NT401]

Quote: Originally Posted by JerseySuave4

Reading through and 2 things that really bother me if they're true. You can only control one team and you can't edit player equipment when you're in the mode?

Yes this is true.... Was confirmed. Can't even edit player numbers. 100% pass this year. Yeah great they have a new infinity engine.... I'll stick with NCAA with its canned animations and the ability to Edit whatever I want and play with MULTIPLE teams.


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[Retropyro]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

Not interested in either mode. Will never even look at it. Still waiting for an online franchise that can be played with as little as 2 human players with full stat tracking for cpu controlled teams. Does this years Madden have that? Don't care about Twitter...I never look at it and have no intention of looking at it. EA please give me some details about online franchise.

Have you actually even read the blogs or listened the podcasts and multiple youtube video's posted by EA?

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by misterkrabz

Not interested in either mode. Will never even look at it. Still waiting for an online franchise that can be played with as little as 2 human players with full stat tracking for cpu controlled teams. Does this years Madden have that? Don't care about Twitter...I never look at it and have no intention of looking at it. EA please give me some details about online franchise.

To do this in Connected Careers, you'd start an online career, play as a coach, invite your friend to play as a coach. This will give you the functionality of a two-player online franchise with 30 AI teams which are stat-tracked, perform moves in free agency, draft players, propose trades, etc. etc.

Further, online Connected Careers continues to have a live draft (which Madden 12 had in online franchise), and it also has a salary cap, online offseason free agency, etc. etc.

Do take time to read all the blogs about the mode; it's setting up to be quite an accomplishment, what EA Tiburon has made this year. I'm impressed.

[Mckinley Cash]

I have been wanting a mode like this forever, and the funny thing is that I just posted in The Show forums about them adding something similar in their RTTS about 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mckinley Cash

This is something pretty small, but it would make commentary a little more fresh and give your RTTS player a little more of a background. When editing your RTTS player give us the option of selecting whether or not our guy came from: 2 Yr of College>Select College> Have announcers talk about how he left early for the majors. 4 Yr of College>Select College>Have the announcers talk about how he decided to stay and earn his degree before jumping to the majors. Straight from HS>Select State>Talk about how he was an All-State player at the HS level. Those are just examples, but you get the idea. Edit: Different topics can be brought up based on the overall talent level of the player. What would make it even more dynamic is if there were a "try out" held to determine player skills and potential, instead of every RTTS player having A potential from the get go. Let us earn it. We have to earn everything else. Edit #2: This would really only affect the players first 1-3 years in the league, as after that the topic of discussion should shift to the player's performance and future.

Great minds think alike. lol
Mine obviously wasn't as in-depth or detailed as EA has made their's, but I was just brainstorming.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by SA1NT401

Yes this is true.... Was confirmed. Can't even edit player numbers. 100% pass this year. Yeah great they have a new infinity engine.... I'll stick with NCAA with its canned animations and the ability to Edit whatever I want and play with MULTIPLE teams. --- I am here: http://tapatalk.com/map.php?w2nvi1

cool so take away abilities for users instead of adding more. Take away my ability to control multiple teams and edit players while other sports games allow you to control every team and edit players. That's the EA way.

[Wildcats302]

Everyone in this thread asking about if you can control 32 teams and then complaining about it...how did you miss the big 40 page "franchise players unite" or whatever it is titled thread lol that thread is full of repeated complaints about it not being in. I feel for everyone who wants that though, but some are repeating their anger over and over again, which is counter productive I think (not on this thread, on that one).

This mode sounds interesting, won't be a first day buy but I might buy it. I like the NCAA demo so I might stick with it and go full physics in both games next year in buying both. I'll see what everyone says on here as usual before making a choice on Madden for this year.