Madden NFL 17 Address All 3 Phases of the Game: Offense, Defense & Special Teams

[SolidSquid]

This is a good start. They are actually using real football terms and strategy as a selling point. Gives me hope

[gr18]

Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

Gap play sounds awesome but I absolutely love this.

While I do like talk of special teams improvements,the things I want to see are better blocking on kick returns,ball physics on punts and not having to supersim CPU field goals for them to miss.

[Gridiron]

Okay. You start talkin about gap play and you got my ears perked. That's what I like to hear. If it works right it'll change the game a lot that's for sure.

[SoxFan01605]

I'm hoping we don't have to wait to long to find out what exactly makes this year's franchise mode "deeper than ever" because I really do want it to be true this time...

The rest sounds promising as well for an initial reveal.

[DeuceDouglas]

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

Who knows, but they did call it Franchise last year so the name itself doesn't mean much.

They still referred to it as Connected Franchise though so I wonder if they've finally ditched the whole "connected" part. This definitely has me interested.

[sir psycho]

Oh man....special teams improvements, gap assignments, coverage improvements, deeper franchise!!

I'm trying to not get too excited, since I haven't even seen any real gameplay yet, but this is the most hyped I've been for a Madden since '05. Can't wait to see what the deeper franchise actually includes.

[charter04]

Gap play, Force defenders, better zone coverage, and all new kicking game stuff. Ok you got my attention Tiberon. If you truly show a deep Franchise mode I'm in.


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[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by DeuceDouglas

They still referred to it as Connected Franchise though so I wonder if they've finally ditched the whole "connected" part. This definitely has me interested.

I doubt it, I think it would be too much to just scrap it in one cycle and get what we all want out of a franchise. They can continue to call it whatever they want as long as they start to add somethings back in that used to make franchise great.