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Madden NFL 12 Reviewer: First Impressions

02:07 PM - August 26, 2011 by ChaseB

Madden NFL 12 is a new hope for gamers desperately waiting for a great football title on this generation of consoles. Prior history of the series reveals a history of big promises followed by merely adequate execution. While Madden has been good in prior years this generation, it has not been great, and most fans expect greatness.

One could argue that's a creation of the EA hype machine, but in reality it could just as easily be attributed to Madden being the only NFL game in town.

But we aren't here to talk about that. Instead, I'm here to talk about initial impressions of the retail version of Madden 12, so here are some quick-hitting initial thoughts from my first experiences with the game.

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# 41 BlackJackRabbit @ 08/27/11 11:59 AM

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	Because it is a very complex sport with 22 players on the field that are always active and doing different things based on what the opposition is doing. When you couple that with the fact people want head tracking, feet planting, refs, 3d grass, etc. etc. then it gets even tougher.

Head tracking, foot-planting, and refs where all done a while ago. Nobody really clamored for 3-d grass. Madden started off on a poor foundation that has never been fixed, and due to the lack of competition, EA has no incentive to really get into the core of the game to correct the faulty foundation. If they are, they're certainly taking their good old time doing it.

This notion that only so much can be done in one cycle is a bunch of crap ! Eventually Madden won't be the only football game in town. When that happens, whatever year (or decade) it is, watch how much Madden improves. Watch all of the legacy issues vanish into thin air in one cycle. Watch Madden catch right up with the rest of the sports genre. Now I'm saying that there won't be issues, but those issues won't be the same issues popping up year after year.

That being said, I am enjoying the M12 demo. I've played it more than any other demo that I remember, but Madden is still behind the other sport titles. That's a fact.

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