Madden NFL 18 News Post

More Madden NFL 18 Features Revealed

06:28 PM - May 12, 2017 by Steve_OS

GameStop has revealed some more Madden NFL 18 features. Check them out below.

Product Details
Madden NFL 18 takes a significant visual leap with the power of the Frostbite engine. See stunning new stadium exteriors surrounded by vast cityscapes and watch the spectacle of NFL gameday come to life in the most photorealistic game to date. Play each matchup to your specifications by selecting from three new Play Styles or play the best real world match ups each week in Play Now Live! With the introduction of even more ways to play, coupled with your favorite modes, Madden Ultimate Team and Franchise, this is Madden like you've never seen before.

New Ways to Play
POWERED BY FROSTBITE Madden Like You've Never Seen Before. See stunning new stadium exteriors surrounded by vast cityscapes and watch the spectacle of NFL game day come to life in our most photorealistic game to date. All-new firework displays, player run-outs and stunning weather elements deliver Madden like you've never seen before. MORE TO COME
PLAY NOW LIVE! Play the best real-world NFL match ups each week! Take the field with your favorite team or play the best weekly matchup using live updates containing the latest rosters, custom commentary and up-to-date stats from NFL.com then continue your season all the way to the Super Bowl from Play Now.

GAMEPLAY

Target Passing: For the first time ever, no longer are you tied to throwing at your open wide receiver. Throw to who you want, in the exact spot on the field with all-new Target Passing, giving you, ultimate control over where the ball is thrown.
Play Styles: Play the game you want by selecting from three new and unique play-styles catering each matchup to your specifications:
- Arcade - Action packed excitement filled with spectacular plays and scoring with limited penalties.
- Simulation - True to player and team ratings using authentic NFL rules and gameplay.
- Competitive - Your stick skills are key, earn big rewards for your skill or receive bigger penalties.
Coverage Assignment: Know your job in pass coverage with an on-screen, real-time UI system informing you of your coverage assignment in pass defense.
Coach Adjustments: Customize the AI to fit your game plan and make situational changes to your strategy on the fly as the game demands it.

Favorite Ways to Play
MUT - Build, play, and win with your ultimate team of todays' NFL stars and legends. Madden Ultimate Team (MUT) is the complete NFL team-building mode using your favorite NFL players from the past and present. Play games, collect rewards and upgrade your team with daily, fun and engaging content updates including legendary NFL players exclusively found in MUT. Continuously craft your squad to elite status on the road to building your Ultimate Team dynasty. MORE TO COME
FRANCHISE - Create your Dynasty. Play weekly full game matchups or get through a season quickly by playing as just the offense, defense, or key moments from the game. Grab the reins and control your teams' operations from signing free agents and making trades, to scouting and drafting players, your decisions build your dynasty. Join up with other players and battle through the season in a fully connected league experience. Choose to play and manage your Franchise from your smart phone using the Madden Companion App.

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Member Comments

# 41 illwill10 @ 05/12/17 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fballturkey


	If they don't actually give us custom coverage assignments then the naming of this "feature" is a massive troll on the playerbase.

Agree. If it isn't how it was before, where you can manually select custom coverage assignments, then it will be a disappointment. I want to be able to shadow the best receiver or find good matchups. Or How tight or loose my defender covers.
But, I think it would go with the old NCAA way. It would conflict with each other. It would have to be either or. If I had to choose, I want custom coverage assignments.

# 42 OhMrHanky @ 05/12/17 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PhillyPhanatic14


	Might still be in. That's not something that an average person is going. To see on Gamestop.com and be like "yo imma buy this game cuz of that" which is what all this stuff is. All the good stuff will be in the blogs which should start coming soon. I think we had most if not all of them by EA Play last year.

Yeah, Rex mentioned last year how the marketing goes and whatnot. And, I'd say, as a general rule, for most of the people in this forum, and most of the sim guys, we have to wait longer to hear the 'boring' gameplay features that have been improved or tweaked or whatnot. Last, year, they came out with write-ups in their blogs or whatnot that tended to give us the info we wanted. Ball physics, commentary, etc, all seemed to be written about a little after the back of the box stuff. I hope they have a blog or 2 before the EA play event next month, but u never know.

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# 43 illwill10 @ 05/12/17 10:54 PM

This is pretty much at the pace of previous Maddens. Where now info doesn't start rolling until just over 3 months prior to release. Gameplay and Modes are usually rolled in June. Presentation and Audio is around the same time. Online and MUT is around July. Usually info is done being Released Late July. Then until Release there are a lot of game videos being dropped

# 44 PVarck31 @ 05/12/17 10:54 PM

Yeah, I mean we do this every year. We have to remember that they don't release every single bit of info on the game on the first day.

I'm not singling anyone out, I'm just saying there tends to be a lot of thought like this every year.

# 45 BreakingBad2013 @ 05/12/17 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lexicon


	Dag... not even a "MORE TO COME" at the end of it

Just overviews of the game modes.... these aren't even close to the deep dives or Blogs coming later on in the year.

# 46 Rocky @ 05/12/17 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by PhillyPhanatic14


	Might still be in. That's not something that an average person is going. To see on Gamestop.com and be like "yo imma buy this game cuz of that" which is what all this stuff is. All the good stuff will be in the blogs which should start coming soon. I think we had most if not all of them by EA Play last year.

Not too make too much of it but in that short Zeke clip, it looks unchanged. Again an extremely small sample size but I am not optimistic.

# 47 4thQtrStre5S @ 05/13/17 12:15 AM

I like the potential of Coverage assignments maybe being that we can assign coverages that could include route types to cover - this could allow a user to assign a defender to cover a receiver we believe is going on a drag or slant route.

I am hoping the Coaching Adjustments is like what we had in NCAA where we could pick things like aggressive, balanced or conservative and they each came with pros and cons.

# 48 howboutdat @ 05/13/17 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by fballturkey


	If they don't actually give us custom coverage assignments then the naming of this "feature" is a massive troll on the playerbase.

i have to agree there. they knew it was something highly asked for , for years now. If they intentionally worded it like this, and then thats not what it is.... man they gonna have alot of pissed off people .Not exactly what you want to do with your base.

Also the more i hear people talk about it, and the more i read, including from the guy here who used to work at EA, im not sure how much im really gonna dig this new playstyle system. I hope its makes thing better, but im already starting to come down and feel some serious doubts about it .We shall see i guess. Long time to go yet.

Also the wording of this i find odd "Choose to PLAY and manage your Franchise from your smart phone using the Madden Companion App."

I can see the manage part, like bringing back ability to sign fa, resign players, trade players, spend xp like we had before. But the wording " choose to play & manage" almost makes me wonder what we can "play" from the app.... or does it mean , choose how you play CFM and also you can manage it from app?

# 49 Goffs @ 05/13/17 01:03 AM

Hmmm is target passing like that old turbographix16 football game? You had to hold down the button and move the stick to kinda aim where the ball goes.

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# 50 johnnyg713 @ 05/13/17 01:20 AM

all this "exterior" talk with the infinity engine. I don't understand why they spent time working on the exterior when they still need to do a lot of stuff on the interior of the stadium. Interactive sidelines, refs throwing flags, players subbing in and out in real time, qb's warming up in real time on sideline, kickers warming up, etc.

# 51 Americas Team @ 05/13/17 02:15 AM

I like that they made some long overdue upgrades to Play Now since thats the mode I play most, looking forward to Play Live Now and playing the real world match ups each week. Is their any chance they change the play calling screen? The current one has been stale for years now to me.

# 52 Retropyro @ 05/13/17 02:56 AM

Hoping they finally add in co-ordinators and a coaching carousel.

# 53 TjJunior @ 05/13/17 02:57 AM

Hopefully the passing is a rip off from NFL Fever 2004 read and lead. If so with those catch animations I'd pay the 65 and not wait for access. We'll see.

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# 54 illwill10 @ 05/13/17 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Retropyro


	Hoping they finally add in co-ordinators and a coaching carousel.

I loved that feature in NCAA football 14. Taking 3 or 4 years to develop your side of football as a coordinator and increase your reputation. Then go to your dream job and build a dynasty.
They obviously would need custom playbooks. I loved recruiting players to fit my defense/offense.

# 55 OhMrHanky @ 05/13/17 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by howboutdat


	i have to agree there. they knew it was something highly asked for , for years now. If they intentionally worded it like this, and then thats not what it is.... man they gonna have alot of pissed off people .Not exactly what you want to do with your base. Also the more i hear people talk about it, and the more i read, including from the guy here who used to work at EA, im not sure how much im really gonna dig this new playstyle system. I hope its makes thing better, but im already starting to come down and feel some serious doubts about it .We shall see i guess. Long time to go yet. Also the wording of this i find odd "Choose to PLAY and manage your Franchise from your smart phone using the Madden Companion App." I can see the manage part, like bringing back ability to sign fa, resign players, trade players, spend xp like we had before. But the wording " choose to play & manage" almost makes me wonder what we can "play" from the app.... or does it mean , choose how you play CFM and also you can manage it from app?

I can't find the write up, but I think I saw someone mention this is more like the tackle cone. Lol. Meaning, it's like a graphical tool to help u cover better during a play. Something to help true beginners or people who struggle to play pass d. Maybe, we also get to choose db vs wr, but I def have my doubts on this.

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# 56 howboutdat @ 05/13/17 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by OhMrHanky


	I can't find the write up, but I think I saw someone mention this is more like the tackle cone. Lol. Meaning, it's like a graphical tool to help u cover better during a play. Something to help true beginners or people who struggle to play pass d. Maybe, we also get to choose db vs wr, but I def have my doubts on this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

well if that is the case, then that is just crap and they gonna have alot of pissed off people when they finally give details on that.Sorry but ima call that what it is if that is the case. I hope your wrong, but honestly after having 24 hours to digest the little info that came out and think about how things tend to actually play out compared to what is promised early on...... i have all but almost lost my excitement already for whats been talked about so far... Guess the old saying ,fool me once shame on you , fool me 10 times , im an idiot....

# 57 jpdavis82 @ 05/13/17 10:36 AM

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