Adam Roark

Honest Review This is my first review on Madden franchise games. I have been playing Madden since Madden 2001. From that time Madden 2008 had been my absolute favorite and since after that the games had been mediocre with slightly improvement. Madden 2017 and 2019 were not bad. With even Madden 24 was actually better with actual caring improvement done by EA and starting to get the actual live gameplay back and better ball carrying movements from the players, blacking, coverage and even to the tackles. Madden 2008 had all that from the jukes and spins, to the trucking, then to the absolute damaging crushing hit stick tackling, was absolutely amazing, that made the game so fun and enjoyable, like your actually playing a real life game of football. I will say Madden 25 has been my new favorite. EA has done amazing work with this game getting back to what a football game is all about. True improvements all around has been done, offensively and defensively. Another big one is the franchise mode. That’s the mode that I mainly play. I love how the mini camp style came back to play in the franchise mode. The draft is getting to a real life draft and that’s awesome. Only questions I have for developers is why in franchise mode do you always have to find new offensive and defensive coordinators every year? That wastes all the talents that you purchase throughout the year on their offense and defense tree. Is there a way you can allow to keep the offense and defense coordinators that you hire? Last question is there a way you can add to play the pro bowl in franchise? The way the pro bowl is now with playing all the different games that the pro bowl is now. Yes, there will be bugs to fix, that’s with every game but this game is for real getting back to the true game and what John Madden really wanted the game experience to be and that is a real life football game. To bring the passion of the real life game of football back into the hands of a gamer to visualize what you would see on the football field on any given game day is amazing. Props to EA for finally bringing this back. From a football fan giving an honest review, thank you EA for bringing this passion back.