Marc Castellano

Was done with madden after 23. Didn’t buy 24. My wife thought I wanted madden 25 and got it as a gift so now I have madden 25. On the PS5 version, too many glitches. Tackling animations are absolutely terrible. They all look super glitchy and fake or just not timed right. I have video saved showing the times the player got tackled and then proceeded to flop around the turf like a fish while going in a circle. The Franchise mode interactive story lines and team meetings are pretty stupid, unrealistic and very cheesy. Everything is worded in an odd fashion too. If you look at other teams in franchise mode that are being controlled by the CPU you’ll see that they have played 11 overtime games in their season. 11. That’s just stupid to have that happen. That adds to the phoniness. For WEEKS you couldn’t upload draft classes into your franchise. They finally fixed that. However, downloads still don’t appear in the main menu. Balls go RIGHT pass defenders heads while they’re staring right at the QB. Right in front of their face. No hands up no attempt to bat it down or anything. The LBs are just complete idiots in this game. They constantly get out ran by the QB or simply can’t tackle. For example Roquan Smith can’t tackle Gardner Minshew while spying him. Minshew just runs over Smith. Your QB will fumble the second they get touched by the opposing Qb will never fumble. It’s an Odd way to make the game challenging. The scripts in the game seem even more apparent than recent maddens. I.E. Team records, how the games turns out, when the CPU chooses to break 3-4 tackles or just have the lineman not block anyone or pick up a holding call on a quick out. Still many features missing while crazy unimportant details were changed like the play call menu or kick meter. Don’t know where priorities lie. The DBs are no better. The Corners CONSTANTLY take a step in towards the receiver as their first step which lets the WR run right pass them and do whatever they want. If you ever took a step in as a corner in HS you would never play corner, let alone pro ball. I know it’s a CPU and a game, but have them at least take the right steps. It’s just one initial movement. It looks crazy when Corners take 2 slow steps towards the WR and let the WR go free. Some animations look cool. The route Stem capability is a nice add in. The game can feel properly challenging at times. That’s good. The menu layout for the most part is alright, I guess. I saw the CPU SS go cover my inside WR and then turn around and sprint to my outside WR just as I was about to throw to him. I threw a pick and still thought that was really cool. It looked real. it felt real. It felt like the CPU legitimately got me that time. That was fun. Not that other fake glitchy cheesy unrealistic scripted fake crap.