Overall 8.3 Graphics 9.5 Sound 8.5 Addictive 9 Depth 6 Difficulty 7.5
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Madden 25 tgags123
Hello Vizzed and welcome to tgags123's Madden NFL 25 review! I recently got this game for my PS3, and although I like the game, I am pretty disappointed with it. That may not make any sense, but I will explain. Let's get this review started!
Gameplay:
If this were a category, I would give it a 10. The game is a lot of fun to play, and is very similar to actual (American) football. It has every aspect of a real life football game, including penalties, a variety of different types of plays, challenges, player tendencies based on the players real life tendencies, etc. It is a fun game to play both by yourself or with a friend of family member.
Graphics:
The graphics in this game are absolutely amazing. These graphics are some of the best I have ever seen, just below MLB The Show. The players look just like they actually do. Even the coaches are extremely detailed and life like. There is not a single complaint I have about the graphics in this game. It looks just like an actual football game. Actually, when I played it in front of my grandpa, he thought it was a real game, not a video game. The graphics are very very good in Madden 25.
Sound:
The sound is clear, and the announcers have a decent variety of things that they say. One thing I hate is when the announcers are repetitive. They are less repetitive in Madden 25 than they are in NHL games, but, once again, MLB The Show is better. There really is no music soundtrack like there is in a lot of sports games, it is really just the same song over and over again, which can get pretty annoying. There are some other complaints I have with the sound, but these are probably only annoying to me. There is a line that one of the announcers says about being a hero. Except when he says hero, he says it like "heeerow" and it really bugs me. This next complaint is probably just me too. There is a girl that they go to sometimes in between quarters that goes down and interviews a player, then reports back on what the player said. I have to turn the volume off whenever she comes on. Her voice is insanely annoying.
Addictiveness:
I don't know if I would call this game addicting, but I do like to play it somewhat often. It is not one of those games where you play for hours at a time because you just can't put it down, it is more of a game that you play when you are bored. I am likely to play it again, so I decided to rate it an 8. I think that you will want to play this game a few times once you try it, but I doubt that you will get "hooked" on it.
Story:
There is no story. It is football.
Depth:
This is where this game really lacks. The depth. I remember in previous Madden games there were modes such as season mode and franchise mode, and features such as create a team. They have removed all 3 of those things, as well as some other things. Season and franchise mode were my favorite 2 game modes. You could take a team through a season and manage the team as well as play the games. I also liked that you could do a fantasy draft, because I like having a mixed team. That leads me to my next point. Now you can't have a customized team in season or franchise mode, but they also removed create a team. On top of that, they added salary caps so you can't even edit the team rosters so that you have a team full of players that you want. It is like they are trying to prevent you from creating an all-star team. The only game modes that they have now are Madden Ultimate Team, which is hard to be good at unless you spend money, play now, practice, connected franchise, EA sports moments, and a variety of different ways to play online against other people. There really isn't a lot of variation and stuff that you can do anymore.
Difficulty:
Playing the game itself is not difficult at all. The controls are simple and the computer controlled opponents are pretty easy to beat. It is,m however, very difficult to figure out Madden Ultimate Team (The main game mod in Madden 25), and also very difficult to make a good Madden 25 team. Madden Ultimate Team is a lot different and more complicated than FIFA Ultimate Team and Hockey Ultimate Team. Why EA would make Madden different I have no idea, but they did. It is pretty hard to figure it out. I haven't even really figured it out yet. It is also very hard to build a good team without spending any money.
While Madden NFL 25 is a fun game to play, EA really needs to improve on some things. They need to add season mode back, make Madden Ultimate Team a little easier to figure out, and (please EA!) find some one to
replace that interview woman. Overall it is a good game, and I recommend buying it.
That concludes this review, I hope you enjoyed it. Please let me know what you thought of the review, and be honest. Please do not reply to this review if you did not read the whole thing. This review is not a place for spam. Thank you for reading it!
Graphics 10 Sound 8 Addictive 8 Depth 6 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 4.7/5
Submitted: 01-17-14
Review Replies: 0
8.5
Madden NFL 25: Next Gen of Football pacman1755
The next game in the conversion to the next generation of Xbox One, and PS4. Whoever has those consoles right now either is filthy rich, or sold the shirts off their backs to even get the console itself. $500 on launch is too much for my sense in gaming. Anyway, as you can tell, this isn't the "new" version, it's the game on the PS3, but it doesn't take anything away from the game or the presentation, it's still a really fun game, along with a pretty game to even look at. Let's go ahead and break it down, shall we?
Difficulty: 8
The difficulty itself is, to your guess, adjustable, therefore it can vary on opinions on how hard the game can be. It can be a pretty good challenge to a beat-down on every opponent you have. There are also Sliders you can adjust your opponents skills to. The sliders also can adjust your skills as well, if for some sort of reason you want to challenge yourself to becoming skill ridden, or way overpowering. I myself found a way to cheat the game badly, and set a saved sliders.(that I also shared on the community downloads as well) Anyway, the difficulty settings go from Rookie, to Pro, to All-Pro, to All-Madden, which I believe is next to impossible to beat in All-Madden. I've been surprised before, however. In the end of the day, it is pretty fair to me when it comes to difficulty. Its toughness brings a fun challenge, or to take out my anger on an unsuspecting team. It all evens out for me. It's pass/run blocking has been redone as well, along with running itself, with the new moves like spin, juke, stiff-arm, etc., it's been all repackaged and redone to be used more effectively, and it really helps the run become more effective, and its more fun to use instead of plain running.
Depth: 6
I wouldn't call this game long at all. Yeah, there's a lot of interesting new features, such as improved game mechanics, like the running I stated earlier. Its not that long of a game depending on what you do. There's no story mode, really besides Career mode, which adds up to becoming either a player, a head coach, or an owner. The owner is a brand new feature itself with bringing the franchise to your liking in all aspects imaginable. There's also the old positions you can use to get around your career, like a coach, drafting and managing rosters/plays, to player, where bringing the franchise to the best plays possible. This game mode can also be played online with your friends, where it is possible to have all 3 positions active at once. Of course if you need to go away, there's an auto-pilot feature to keep on as your friends continue the season. There's also another feature called Madden Ultimate Team, where you can buy "packs" of players to be on your very own team, being called whatever you want. You can buy the packs, and get players to play on your team. It's like a treading card game or what have you, only football! It's fun, but not my cup of tea myself, but back to Depth. It's not long at all. You play a career, go through some achievements in exhibition mode, and that's really it. There's not much else to talk about the length of the game. You play, you unlock, you beat it. It's basic attraction is online play, really.
Story: N/A
No story at all. Like I stated earlier, the closest thing to a story mode is Career mode. And that doesn't count.
Sound: 8
The sound is near perfection. All the home team chants, to the hits one ball-runner takes is all really authentic from the NFL games. Also, the calls from most of the QBs are from their voices and from their calls and signals, which makes the game even better. The music is nothing special, however. Its the generic music from NFL Films, in my opinion. Its not a bad thing, but it gets old. Hard to believe there was a time that there was actual copyrighted music from bands on there back in the PS2 days of the game. Now, there's nothing to talk about on that category. But everything else I can gush for a long time. It's really good, but just short from a perfect score on that part.
Graphics: 9
Besides on a few bugs and other nit-picks on what happens on the field, these character models are absolutely amazing. The game looks so real, and it's scary to think that this is only on the PS3, where the other consoles can hold up so much more details in score. Not only the players, but the Field, and the ANNOUNCERS look good. Jim Nantz and Phil Sims, the voices of CBS Football, make a brief screen time appearance in the beginning of every game, and they look pretty cool on what they really look, and how they look there. I enjoy the effort they put there. But enough of them, the turf on each field looks good, the jerseys on each player looks authentic, and pretty much every other aspect of the game looks spot-on to what many expected. Amazing.
Overall: 8.5
At the end of the day, when you look at this game, you can say that they really outdid themselves on most parts of the game. Yeah, there's plenty of room to improve, like what they did back in the PS2 games with Career mode where you move up the ranks from your appartment/location, to become a mega superstar with assigned roles to your credit, but that's for another time to discuss. When you look at the game as a whole, they did amazing. I was skeptical on buying the game when it first came out, thinking it was the exact same game as previously stated in Madden 13, it was a better enjoyment for me, really. I loved it.
Do I recommend buying it? If you're a fan of football, go ahead and get it.
Graphics 9 Sound 9 Addictive 10 Depth 6 Difficulty 8
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 02-05-14
Review Replies: 1