Madden User score at metacritic

[Soprano00]

At the moment is 4.7/10

Basically there are 19 reviews giving it 9 or 10, and 21 reviews giving it 0.

It's time metacritic grows up and get rid of user scores...

[Jimi XIII]

Why does metacritic need to grow up? User scores are pretty typical for all review sites. I definitely don't agree with it but the general public can voice their concerns however they want. Should make for an interesting M14 with all these people upset with the game.

[Aggies67]

Amazon's rating is 2 stars (out of 5) with 98 reviews.

User Scores are the best indicator of pass/fail for a game. After all, it is "users" who spend their time playing the game.

[briax87]

Quote: Originally Posted by Aggies67

Amazon's rating is 2 stars (out of 5) with 98 reviews. User Scores are the best indicator of pass/fail for a game. After all, it is "users" who spend their time playing the game.

I posted in the CC v Franchise thread about the amazon reviews. Most seem to be upset at the changes to Franchise Mode and Editing. Surely having the game sit at 2/5 stars on Amazon will lose EA some sales. While I love that they are trying to finally change the direction and improve on the series in many aspects, you have to wonder what the bosses think about the reception the game is getting. They could demand that the game revert back to it's previous state for Madden 14 just to get the reviews and reception up again.

[WeBB15]

That's what happens when you remove player editing, fantasy draft, and coop in franchise mode.

It makes this year inferior to past years of madden. Gameplay is great, but if you can't apply it, it's useless.

[Jimi XIII]

Quote: Originally Posted by WeBB15

That's what happens when you remove player editing, fantasy draft, and coop in franchise mode. It makes this year inferior to past years of madden. Gameplay is great, but if you can't apply it, it's useless.

Yup. That's pretty much what people like and hate about it. People enjoy the physics but are very VERY displeased with the new CCM without editing.


But it does amaze me so many people just go and buy Madden without even reading details about new yearly features.

[Nunyerbiz]

There is no doubt that early on this year, Madden is much more polarizing then it has been in years past. From M10 thru M12... it was just sorta 'meh'. Nothing to get terribly excited about, either in features added or taken away. With this version, they finally did something bold... and I give them credit for that... It was needed, this franchise was completely stagnant and stale.

That said, it's a bummer that they couldn't find the time/resources to make the offline mode open for user customization. I do believe that will be the endgame with CCM. Online will always be somewhat locked down and offline will eventually be pretty much returned to the sandbox style that was in M12.

As a primarily offline player, I will clearly miss the ability to edit rosters (primarily position changes), put a created player into my franchise, the ability to babysit/clean up bonehead roster/depth chart AI moves on CPU rosters... It's a mixed bag, no doubt... But I really love the new on-field play... I think the new scouting, draft and player progression systems are a huge step ahead of the stagnant legacy franchise stuff... It's a work in progress and I think eventually the user reviews will balance out over time. Even with the warts and shipping offline CCM in an almost broken state... this is the best Madden of this console generation IMO.

[rahm]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jimi XIII

Yup. That's pretty much what people like and hate about it. People enjoy the physics but are very VERY displeased with the new CCM without editing. But it does amaze me so many people just go and buy Madden without even reading details about new yearly features.

That's because most people want a roster update and are either too lazy to entirely recreate the roster themselves in Madden 12, or too stupid to import one.