Madden NFL 15 is now available in stores. Be sure to read our review if you haven't gotten the game. If you have, leave your own impressions of your first play sessions in the comments below!
Give me good sidelines, visually next year and I'll be damn.
I agree. The hideous sidelines are definitely an eyesore in this game. Although they are slightly improved, EA has to get the sidelines & Living Worlds in general up to par. Definitely holding the visual look of the game back & takes away from the immersion being that the on field graphics are so good. At least put player names on the sideline players jerseys! Every time I see the sidelines I cringe lol.
Play call screen: it's awful, plain awful. I don't see a redeeming quality about it. Please give option for old system or at least start you off in formation list each play.
CPU QBs taking sacks. It's pretty bad. Part of the reason CPU QB percentages are so high is they never throw the ball away
Penalties: I bumped up the penalty sliders and other than a couple facemask I got nothing else called
Playcall screen is either growing on me, or im starting to accept it is part of the "learning curve." Either way, its far better to me today than the first few times i've played the game.
Yeah hearing that this game has finally outdone 2k5 on the field has me extremely interested. I am just being my typical madden skeptic self. I do hope defense is as fun as people are saying because defense was my favorite aspect of 2k5 and even all pro football.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves. 2K5 still have superior Oline interaction and DB/CB Interaction. Overall Madden is a good game. My rating so far is a 7.7. If Madden can give me the old play calling system (please in a patch) i'll give it a 8.2.
Playcall screen is either growing on me, or im starting to accept it is part of the "learning curve." Either way, its far better to me today than the first few times i've played the game.
For some reason I keep picking the wrong play, especially on special teams.
Maybe it's just user error and I need to pick a new setting for the button layout
Some more thoughts:
I give EA credit, I think the overall presentation is much improved and the halftime show (weird angles aside) is off to a great start
For some reason I keep picking the wrong play, especially on special teams.
Maybe it's just user error and I need to pick a new setting for the button layout
Some more thoughts:
I give EA credit, I think the overall presentation is much improved and the halftime show (weird angles aside) is off to a great start
I think because they are never in the same order. Kickoffs middle us sometimes A, next time Y, next time X. Sometimes I get two return middles but no return right.
Looking through my stats after three games. It seems the missing defensive stats glitch is still in this game after a few years. For some reason if I have a player in the top 5 for sacks or interceptions they don't dhow up under the NFL category, just my team.