Madden NFL 18 News Post

Tom Brady is the Madden NFL 18 Cover Athlete, First Trailer Reveals Story Mode

09:55 AM - May 12, 2017 by Toupal

EA Sports has revealed Tom Brady as the Madden NFL 18 cover athlete. The standard edition of Madden NFL 18 will release on August 25 ($59.99), while the G.O.A.T. edition releases 3 days earlier, on August 22 ($79.99).

The team has also released their first Madden NFL 18 trailer. The end of the trailer shows a sneak peek at Story Mode. More details as they come in.

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# 21 VengeXII @ 05/12/17 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TitanUP2


	Typical teaser-hype trailer. A lot of cinematic angles to get people thirsty. Based off the end of the trailer it looks like story mode is going to be a thing they will hammer. I hope this leads to some face scanning like NBA2K has. I'm a franchise guy but I would mess around with it if i could get my actually face in the game. Really adds to the experience.

If it's anything like FIFA 17, that will be the main character.

# 22 apollon42 @ 05/12/17 10:45 AM

I find it hard to trust these trailers due to EA's track record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VWVSwEtJQU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FLhne4-TPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxE5MaKuCEc

The game didn't look like any of those.

# 23 StL_RamZ @ 05/12/17 10:50 AM

Always hated the fact of these "story mode" modes that we have to use a premade character, why does it have to be "His" story and not "Our" story

# 24 TecmoZack @ 05/12/17 10:53 AM

This looks great. Pumped to see gameplay at EA play. The story mode in FIFA was great. Looks to be similar.

# 25 kjcheezhead @ 05/12/17 11:04 AM

These images are disappointing. The game looks to animate the same. Zero football IQ. The defender trying to tackle Elliot is tackling air while looking at him. The defender covering Antonio Brown never attempts to locate the ball. Dez Bryant is doing the same animation as the defender with the ball two feet out of his reach. Ugh. Madden is an ugly game in motion.

The story mode does zero for me either. Never liked it in a football game. Players don't play offense and defense like baseball, basketball or soccer. Even the skill players of the offense don't get enough touches to make the mode interesting to me with the qb being the only exception.

I haven't bought madden in years. Very unlikely I come back this year based off this trailer.

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# 26 jpdavis82 @ 05/12/17 11:07 AM

Equipment guys chill out, just remember NONE of the new equipment for Madden 17 was shown until after E3. Feel free to give feedback but just last year we should have learned that these early trailers are not fully indicative of what they added to the game.

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# 27 Datninja619 @ 05/12/17 11:08 AM

I guess career mode is now officially confirmed

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# 28 ultralow36 @ 05/12/17 11:08 AM

Madden will be madden it's not going to transform into something eles.....looks good to me

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# 29 LBzrule @ 05/12/17 11:10 AM

# 30 johnnyg713 @ 05/12/17 11:10 AM

based on the very brief clips. One thing I did notice was the short cuts to lineman feet and the battle in the trenches. I'm hoping they have redone line animations, which is definitely a huge request by the community. If you look at the 26 sec mark and watch the wr on the other end of the field, his route running animation looks really good actually. My hope is they finally got running animations correct this year.

Just brief thoughts on a small sample

# 31 jmurphy31 @ 05/12/17 11:10 AM

Not a huge story mode guy in sports games. Do I really need to watch pre-made cut scenes about my players growth and choices. I hope it didnt take away from franchise mode development.

# 32 Madden08PCgmr @ 05/12/17 11:12 AM

Thank you for cementing my decision not to purchase this year.

I was afraid it would be Rodgers and I would have caved.

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# 33 johnnyg713 @ 05/12/17 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by LBzrule

... now THAT is what I was hoping madden would look like this year..

No way that is real

I'll never forget this one..

# 34 ps3veron @ 05/12/17 11:15 AM

Oh yes! Let's go! You can come too Rocky speech story mode!

# 35 apollon42 @ 05/12/17 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by jpdavis82


	Equipment guys chill out, just remember NONE of the new equipment for Madden 17 was shown until after E3. Feel free to give feedback but just last year we should have learned that these early trailers are not fully indicative of what they added to the game. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Every single year we hear, alpha build, not finished yet, etc. Then August comes around and the game looks exactly the same.

# 36 jpdavis82 @ 05/12/17 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by apollon42


	Every single year we hear, alpha build, not finished yet, etc. Then August comes around and the game looks exactly the same.

The point I made was about equipment and it's not something to be argued it's a fact.

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# 37 PhillyPhanatic14 @ 05/12/17 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by johnnyg713


	... now THAT is what I was hoping madden would look like this year.. No way that is real I'll never forget this one..

You want guys to have arms the size of a noodle? Brady's arm has the same amount of muscle as a 4 year old in that image. That Kap image from years ago is way better than this junk

# 38 apollon42 @ 05/12/17 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by johnnyg713


	... now THAT is what I was hoping madden would look like this year.. No way that is real I'll never forget this one..

That Brady image is real. Probably retouched a little bit. That Kaepernick picture was what his model looked like in game the photo is just touched up. Madden always looked incredible in still shots. It's when the game starts moving that it looks goofy. The graphics on Madden have always been good.

# 39 jbrock11 @ 05/12/17 11:32 AM

Why add a story mode when they can't even fix the modes they already have? I gotta imagine franchise mode will be largely untouched once again.

# 40 johnnyg713 @ 05/12/17 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by PhillyPhanatic14


	You want guys to have arms the size of a noodle? Brady's arm has the same amount of muscle as a 4 year old in that image. That Kap image from years ago is way better than this junk

Tom Brady does not have huge arms...

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