Madden NFL 25 Brings Back Importing of Draft Classes, Full 32-Team Control & More

[JayD]

I just hope that importing players doesn't cause them to look like freaks with huge shoulders and odd equipment like they did a couple of years ago.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by MarvinOida

Yeah. This year there's Madden share, there's an entire play book devoted to that for later and that will benefit the OS roster makers since there's now a 2K Share like feature. After watching this play book, I was like, cool, Im seeing what Madden did back around the 6th gen with the owner mode. I hope Madden NFL 25 is a mixture of what they did right and needed to do right (then actually doing that) during the 25 years, and it looks like they could be trying knowing that next gen is almost here. But, I gotta see what my fellow OSers say about that gameplay. All these features are cool, but if it can't play like football, its most likely a no buy.

Are we sure Madden Share is about rosters? Could be a social media related "share" feature.

[MarvinOida]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Are we sure Madden Share is about rosters? Could be a social media related "share" feature.

On the edge it says Download... Bottom says Share My... It could be both! But its guaranteed to have an Upload/Download system like 2k Share. I GUARANTEE THAT AT THE VERY LEAST.

[Hooe]

Glad to see 32 team control and draft class importing added back into the game.

It looks like multiple upgrade packages can be purchased at once based on the Ray Rice player progression screenshot, which is a plus.

Also glad to see player regression matter more, per a blog by Shopmaster.

I wish that there was more done for direct football gameplay, though. Owner Mode is kinda "meh" for me. I would have liked to see things like more fleshing out of the coaching staff (though at least the Scout and Trainer are there now), practice squad, player morale, team chemistry, etc. etc. More team management gameplay aspects which more obviously relate to what I do on the field, in a nutshell.

The focus by the dev team this cycle isn't quite where I wanted it to be, it appears. That said, I'll still get the game, because I enjoyed what was already there.

[m1ke_nyc]

Move my favorite team the Giants to my home town of Brooklyn or the Jets. Gonna think about this until August.

[SteelerSpartan]

Yes, yes Tiburon...keep rolling out more news and features like these

Im hoping this means they've realized how important it is to give control over to the the user as much as possible in regards to AI management/Options

Look I know the goal is to have your logic and code so rock solid that you shouldn't have to bother players to go in and use a bunch of tools to setup the game to put out a great sim experience.....but that is a very tough task, and giving the user a bunch of powerful tools to customize their game at least allows the user to remedy

[DJG]

So... Somehow EA is able to get at least $120 off me for the first time in like 5 years. Glad to see owner mode & all it's glory is back. With NCAA draft classes back I'm no doubt gonna pick up NCAA for the first time in years. The video go me so excited, I haven't felt that way since Madden '01 came out. The aspect of moving a team to LA & keeping its name excites me (I'm not from there, but the NFL needs a team there, it's weird without one).

[Ace23]

Relocating teams, importing draft classes, 32 team control? This sounds so great! Just hoping that you can import draft classes in the PAL version of Madden 25, this was a huge thing for me in Madden 12 since I live in germany and importing a US version just to import draft classes s*cks.