Grey

Worst madden game to date. Especially game-play wise, coverage and blocking is non-existent. You cannot throw a fade route, but a football game made on the PS3, which came out almost 20 years ago, the game knows how to throw a fade. The fade route is underthrown every time on madden, Justin Jefferson went 1/10 against a 59 overall CB, but a game made 15 years ago the QB throws higher and the WR jumps up to catch it before it goes out of bounds. Coverage is also a huge problem, it seems to be just a copy and paste from CFB 25. Where the game is built on an arcade-like engine where big plays happen 25 times a game. Blocking has '300 new animations and better logic' but the logic is non-existent and NFL 2K5 has better blocking animations and logic than a game made 20 years after it. The commentary is also the same repetitive garbage it been for the last 10 years, and even that is better than the new crew that sounds like it is AI-generated. Kate Scott might be the most annoying commentator in the world. I wish you could pick commentators, because oh man, her commentating is bad. Another problem is presentation, very little cutscenes, but NFL 2K5 had a full halftime, pre-game, and post-game show. With an ESPN weekly overview of the NFL. You could also see stats about what coaches ran, and what your average play call was. This allowed you to make an actual game plan, especially with the better training. But in Madden 25 you have fake goals like 'kick 4 field goals in a game', that would never be a goal. And would actually want to be avoided by an NFL team. This game is disgraceful, the only reason EA has the license is because the NFL is also greedy and didn't like how NFL 2K was charging 20 dollars for their game. If you can't make a football game better than one from 20 years ago, that is a huge issue.