This statement has been said over and over for 10 years now and people keep buying it. You know why? Its the ONLY NFL "Sim" game out and people don't have enough discipline to NOT buy the game regardless. The best thing that could happen is if the NFL doesn't renew the exclusive license with EA. Outside of that....What you see is what you get.
The fact that the NFL is dumb and could get money from multiple companies making games for them is worse ...let's you know how di** head the people are who run the NFL
The nfl likes it because they have total control. Like no more concussions and no hits that knock helmets off. It's unrealistic and certainly not a simulation
@@erichill7603most metrics would call 6 a positive, above the medium standard. IGN'S 5 is a 7. So them giving a 6 is like others giving a 4. I truly don't understand how comments like this are "best of youtube" 😂
He was still way too nice. Gameplay is robotically atrocious. Glitch animation after glitch animation. The fluidity and control on college 25 is lightyears ahead . Even the graphics took a hit compared to college. Clear difference in reflections and lighting particularly off the helmets.
Yes! I'd even take Game day 05 over this. NFL has done us gaming fans wrong for 20 years. Madden has had the same feel to it for 20 plus years and every game I've tried over the years theres always some issue. I'm shocked they didn't steal any ideas from 2k to make the game more fun and realistic, not feeling like a cartoon game. I've tried madden 24 and it has some fun moments but they need to concentrate on the Franchise, not the 20 other game options that they add to it.
@chrisdivine_ it's like fifa combining ultimate team.... They just need to stop. A half time interviewer would be one thing but a main announcer? no thanks
Why don’t you just be more honest and give it a 1. As a lifelong football fan, there’s no need to sugar coat anything, and I’ve been following the series since Madden 19 came out. It’s really not any better.
The reality is, heads shouldn't matter anymore. EA Sports FC lets you morph all aspects of a player or managers head which lets you create unique faces, College Football 25 has AI generated heads for players. Being upset at head count like the reviewer is, is missing the forest for the trees imo
@@InspireRise300it’s 35$ rn if u buy it from madden 24 Home Screen. At least for me but I have ea play. U can usually get them for “free” with es play once the next madden comes out. Crazy how fast they cut down the price every year.
Completely honest review. Love it mayne. EA stop renewing that exclusive license and give someone else a shot. You know who I'm talking about. Nobody has an exclusive NBA license and yall wet the bed on that so...🎉
The license needs to be given to someone else, this is embarrassing to the NFL, the fact they put their name to this joke for the last 10 years+ now is embarrassing. EA make awful sports games, and the frostbite engine is horrendous.
Everytime its 4th down on the opposing side. If they are about kick the ball. If you dont control your player, your player will purposely tackle the kicker just so you can a penalty call. Since Madden 24 they have been having this issue. Fix this issue please. Its horrible!
In the past 10 years I have bought Madden 4 times. I use to buy it every year up until 2015. I bought the one a few years ago because it was the special Madden version after he passed away. I bought the one this year because it got lowered to 25 dollars. I can't believe how this game has regressed since the last one I bought a few years ago. Not to mention the A.I is less intelligent. I often see my defenders looking the opposite direction of the play and allowing players to make easy receptions. I pick man coverage in dime and they often put line backers or Left ends in coverage instead of putting DBs in on those packages. I pick good defenses but it doesn't matter when your defenders don't react or defend. On offense you can't even run a simple screen...1. The offensive line play on this game is as terrible as the college game. You have to let the play develop and there are defenders in your lap. Then if you run it again and throw it your QB throws it in the dirt while guys it you. At least in previous Maddens the QB would still release the ball realistically while getting hit. This game the ball goes straight in the dirt.
I don't understand why other companies don't make a football game without NFL teams. They act like that's the major selling point. A great football game can still be made without that
Regarding your comment about the best thing EA could do would be to take 5 years to rebuild it from the ground up, why don’t they have a team that maintains the current iteration while also starting a separate team to create the next iteration and make it fresh? The game doesn’t necessarily need to pause completely, they just need to invest in development and people to make it happen.
One feature I wish it Maddens had in practice would be to actually have wher eyou can do a drive, progress the ball down the field and score as opposed to restting every play.
@shamrock141 lol he wants to be "that guy" and say something he think is new or clever about IGN even though this person way off base and wrong. Typical
I haven’t bought or really played madden since 18. Have they made any improvements at all? Based off the comments I’m seeing looks like I shouldn’t even bother
Nfl, wake the hell up and see the crap EA has put out over the last decade or more. You would think by now the EA team would of made the best possible football game ever. 20 plus years of pure laziness. Pretty bad when 2k5 and Gameday are the last worthy football games . 2k5 still blows away Madden in every aspect of the game . 2k5 even had a Halftime show with highlights of other games. The people behind the engine of 2k knew what the gaming fans wanted in a game and gave us the most realistic game . Even the gameplay was smoother and that was on a ps2
Best madden game is 2004-2005. They need to bring this game play back with updated graphics with mini modes and bring a city mode to this. If they do this madden will be golden
Stop buying Madden. If you want them to actually make changes Stop buying Madden otherwise you have no right to complain
This statement has been said over and over for 10 years now and people keep buying it. You know why? Its the ONLY NFL "Sim" game out and people don't have enough discipline to NOT buy the game regardless. The best thing that could happen is if the NFL doesn't renew the exclusive license with EA. Outside of that....What you see is what you get.
🤦♂️
Are you mad(den)?
Just like FIFA P/EAFC
They got us with the college bundle this year
A step in the right direction every year only to realize it was the wrong direction the whole time
😂😂
Sums it up nicely 😅
But yet you morons buy this game every year
A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTIONS YOU'll FUCKUPS ?
The fact that EA is holding the NFL gaming license hostage for the past 20 years is ridiculous
The fact that the NFL is dumb and could get money from multiple companies making games for them is worse ...let's you know how di** head the people are who run the NFL
That’s on the NFL that lets them keep renewing the license with EA.
It is a shame too because 2k was always a better football game
@@NotoriousRKBby far better
The nfl likes it because they have total control. Like no more concussions and no hits that knock helmets off. It's unrealistic and certainly not a simulation
When IGN gives a score below 7 you know it's really bad ..
yeah that's how scores typically work
@@erichill7603 best of youtube! 😂
@@erichill7603most metrics would call 6 a positive, above the medium standard.
IGN'S 5 is a 7. So them giving a 6 is like others giving a 4.
I truly don't understand how comments like this are "best of youtube" 😂
@@apexnextYou're a moron.
@@apexnext yeah we really didn’t need your 3rd grade interpretation on how scores work either buddy. Everyone can make their own decision
NFL really needs to open up the license to allow competition. Football gaming isn't even in the past at this point. It's dead.
So true why isn't there a petition people can sign
This was their last year actually. So next year… 🤷♂️
EA sports, it's still the same.
Lol
It is fun though right?
Give this man a raise & bring him back every year until they fix this game
What do they need to fix? Haven’t played madden in 15 years
He was still way too nice. Gameplay is robotically atrocious. Glitch animation after glitch animation. The fluidity and control on college 25 is lightyears ahead . Even the graphics took a hit compared to college. Clear difference in reflections and lighting particularly off the helmets.
This game should be no more than $30 each year instead of $70 or more for Ultimate Team gimmicks
Madden is $30 by Black Friday
@@icemac911Facts just gotta hold out till the holidays 😂
$10 launch price
But you idiots still buy it, and wonder why they don't fix it 😅
@@moeperk81 its $27 now lol i will get it, not fycking $70 lol
The score is 6
Lords work
@@kylehopkins7929😂
What are you trying to accomplish here?
@kevinjackson7539 lol
Deserves a 6 until they stop using iphone 6 in cutscenes lmao, like seriously how long would it take to design a new phone for cutscenes bruh
6.... is a joke. this game is a 2 / 10
This comment is a 2/10
@@swtnlw80your cope is ridiculous.. typical sports games fans ..
Gave it a 6, as in the iPhone 6's they still be using in cutscenes ToT
@@swtnlw80go play madden mouth breather 😂
Pls bring back NFL 2k it is time
💯💯💯
Yes! I'd even take Game day 05 over this. NFL has done us gaming fans wrong for 20 years. Madden has had the same feel to it for 20 plus years and every game I've tried over the years theres always some issue. I'm shocked they didn't steal any ideas from 2k to make the game more fun and realistic, not feeling like a cartoon game. I've tried madden 24 and it has some fun moments but they need to concentrate on the Franchise, not the 20 other game options that they add to it.
Boycott EA from making football games
Yup.
*Handeggball
In no sane universe is American $hitball known as “footbarrrrl”
@@cbgg1585 🦗
From making any sort of sports game*
@@Mr.Josh. Amen to that 🙏
Please stop buying this franchise. We deserve better.
0:35 That 1995 Playstation 1 rain visuals...
Remember Fieldsense. Remember NextGen stats and how they were going to change madden. At this point I’ve run out of anger. I’ve just given up
The score was 5 points too high 🤑
?🤨🏳️🌈
*6 points too high
FAVORITE COMMENTATOR IS KATE SCOTT??!! THIS HAS TO BE A JOKE 😭😭😭😭
@chrisdivine_ it's like fifa combining ultimate team.... They just need to stop. A half time interviewer would be one thing but a main announcer? no thanks
Madden isn't bad if you go 5 years between buy ins
I'm so sorry you don't have the self respect to know you're lying to yourself
Try 10 years and then STILL get game with less in it than the previous purchase.
last one i played was2020 and was thinking about buying this 1 lol
1 step forward, 2 steps back
The sports video game motto
Why don’t you just be more honest and give it a 1. As a lifelong football fan, there’s no need to sugar coat anything, and I’ve been following the series since Madden 19 came out. It’s really not any better.
6? Are you- are you outta your mind?!
Of course there is only 10 female preset heads, there's literally like 7 female assistant coaches across the entire league💀
Shut up. That's the least of the things we need to be worried about.
The reality is, heads shouldn't matter anymore. EA Sports FC lets you morph all aspects of a player or managers head which lets you create unique faces, College Football 25 has AI generated heads for players. Being upset at head count like the reviewer is, is missing the forest for the trees imo
It isn’t EAs fault it’s the NFL’s. They closed competition and EA has no incentive to improve with their monopoly
Man when the hell are they ever gonna bring back NFL Blitz….?
This is the literally the same freaking game every g’damn year
Have you tried Wild Card Football???
Depends on who currently has the rights to Blitz and if they get the NFL license.
There's Mutant Football League 1 and 2 which is like Blitz
Womp womp
You forgot the new Fingernail physics, now you can accumulate dirt and grass under your fingernails... totally worth another $80 AGAIN!
Kate's commentary is nails on a chalkboard 4 me I've never turned off commentary till now😢
Gamers : this is BLESPAMY !!!
this is MADNESS !!!
EA: madness ? THIS IS MADDEEEEN
Imma rock madden 24 till Black Friday
Just don’t buy the game at all, it’s literally no improvements
@@jiggafromstatefarm9997 damn it’s that bad?
Don't listen to these people the game is great if you like Franchise mode (offline).
@@InspireRise300💯 no bad at all
@@InspireRise300it’s 35$ rn if u buy it from madden 24 Home Screen. At least for me but I have ea play. U can usually get them for “free” with es play once the next madden comes out. Crazy how fast they cut down the price every year.
This is the first version I've been able to play in years on PC. I'm LOVING it.
it's going to be the same as the rest of 'em Angry Joe is going to have a field day!
Its out !
Wow IGN finally stepping out of EA's pockets. You know it's bad when IGN starts showing more professional integrity than your company.
So glad I've sat back and just watched these reviews. Saved me soooooo much money.
how are we still giving this game a 6/10 in 2025
“EA Sports. It’s NOT in the game.”
A step in the right direction? Theyve been going back 2 steps every year for a decade now. Stop deluding people
On EVERY SINGLE clip IGN shows in this entire video, you can see players phase through each other. Colossal failure from everyone involved.
You'd have to be high out of your mind to give this a 6 out of 10. This truly deserves a 3.
1:13 I've seen enough 💀😭 Zero chance im buying this until they completely rewrite the physics for this game from scratch
Travis Kelce ain't duking like that 😂 1:45
Completely honest review. Love it mayne. EA stop renewing that exclusive license and give someone else a shot. You know who I'm talking about. Nobody has an exclusive NBA license and yall wet the bed on that so...🎉
how is the reviewer a "big fan" of the commentary lmao
ign always have the wrong people review the nfl and basketball games.
Is it at least good for somebody, who wants to buy his first madden? As a start into a football game? Its on sale for PS5 for $28. Thanks
They take a step in the right direction every year….. only to realize they were supposed to be going left 🤦🏽♂️
People just need to quit buying it at this point. Once people quit buying, maybe then the ea will get its exclusive rights taken from them.
They’re going to renew EA’s exclusive license if you keep playing this game. Don’t do it!!
Waiting for AngryJoe reaction 😂
Bring back NFL Blitz!!!!!!!
GD these bots flooding the comment section are random AF 😅
It'd probably be a 5 if he wasn't a fan of Kate Scott's terrible commentary.
This guy just said he likes Kate Scott’s commentary on this. It’s robotic.
The definition of insanity is thinking that ign won’t lie every year about how this game has made any significant changes
the worst madden ive ever played ea should be ashamed
College football definite better game
It's not
They’re both equally as bad. If NCAA had the title of Madden then it would be rated much lower.
The license needs to be given to someone else, this is embarrassing to the NFL, the fact they put their name to this joke for the last 10 years+ now is embarrassing. EA make awful sports games, and the frostbite engine is horrendous.
Everytime its 4th down on the opposing side. If they are about kick the ball. If you dont control your player, your player will purposely tackle the kicker just so you can a penalty call. Since Madden 24 they have been having this issue. Fix this issue please. Its horrible!
But is it better than college football...
College football 25 is great
Yes it is
In the past 10 years I have bought Madden 4 times. I use to buy it every year up until 2015. I bought the one a few years ago because it was the special Madden version after he passed away. I bought the one this year because it got lowered to 25 dollars. I can't believe how this game has regressed since the last one I bought a few years ago. Not to mention the A.I is less intelligent. I often see my defenders looking the opposite direction of the play and allowing players to make easy receptions. I pick man coverage in dime and they often put line backers or Left ends in coverage instead of putting DBs in on those packages. I pick good defenses but it doesn't matter when your defenders don't react or defend. On offense you can't even run a simple screen...1. The offensive line play on this game is as terrible as the college game. You have to let the play develop and there are defenders in your lap. Then if you run it again and throw it your QB throws it in the dirt while guys it you. At least in previous Maddens the QB would still release the ball realistically while getting hit. This game the ball goes straight in the dirt.
People don't buy this game anymore, let's pray for 2k
Bring back 2K football
I don't understand why other companies don't make a football game without NFL teams. They act like that's the major selling point. A great football game can still be made without that
Regarding your comment about the best thing EA could do would be to take 5 years to rebuild it from the ground up, why don’t they have a team that maintains the current iteration while also starting a separate team to create the next iteration and make it fresh? The game doesn’t necessarily need to pause completely, they just need to invest in development and people to make it happen.
One feature I wish it Maddens had in practice would be to actually have wher eyou can do a drive, progress the ball down the field and score as opposed to restting every play.
6 is too high...dont buy Madden. I'll stick with NFL 2K5.
Ea just needs to update the game instead of dropping it yearly
Finally a reviewer who actually knows what he is talking about
Let me guess it’s been the same since forever
Ima just wait till GTA 6
The definition of practice is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
Glad the consumers are calling out the sports games. Nba2k, Madden, etc. Stop wasting money on the same game they update
Can EA be sued for bad games?
I'm sticking with madden 24 and just updating rosters for my franchise 🤷🏾♂️
Whomever this is he works for EA
They gave it a 6.
EA advertising dollars must be drying up at IGN for them to start rating it critically
Where have you been, Madden's been getting 6/10s for 4 years now
@shamrock141 lol he wants to be "that guy" and say something he think is new or clever about IGN even though this person way off base and wrong. Typical
@@midlane757 you got owned son
@@thephantomzoneboxing ratio disagrees.
But also, who gives af
@@midlane757 you dont even play the game owned!
Ea should take this criticism and make something better
Which madden and nhl do yoi recommend the most to start my journey with these games?
I haven’t bought or really played madden since 18. Have they made any improvements at all?
Based off the comments I’m seeing looks like I shouldn’t even bother
Nooooo halftime show!!! 😤
What difficulty was the reviewer playing on? Picked off the cpu 5 times lolol
Congratulations to EA for implementing physics that were available 20 years ago from 2K
Time to rebuild game. Something they should of done years ago. And the NFL need to open that license up. It's the same nonsense.
Madden 25 currently has a free trial. They must be in some trouble with sells.
This was an update, stop buying madden
A first person view would be wild or even a VR mode to actually feel like youre immersed.
We need nfl 2k
Madden took a step in the right direction I’m assuming 🙄
But hey we can create female coaches now. The one thing we’ve all always asked for
Nfl, wake the hell up and see the crap EA has put out over the last decade or more. You would think by now the EA team would of made the best possible football game ever. 20 plus years of pure laziness. Pretty bad when 2k5 and Gameday are the last worthy football games . 2k5 still blows away Madden in every aspect of the game . 2k5 even had a Halftime show with highlights of other games. The people behind the engine of 2k knew what the gaming fans wanted in a game and gave us the most realistic game . Even the gameplay was smoother and that was on a ps2
Madden 2008 was solid
Madden needs to become a beta free to play game like Fortnite for things to get better
It should go like
Madden 25 review - watch Madden 24 review
Madden 24 review - watch Madden 23 review
…
Madden 25 (14) review - watch Madden 13 review
Love how my favorite team in all of NFL is mostly part of this video playing against my second team😭😭
Are you still not able to change things on Superstar mode request a trade Or Superstar becomes a free agent
Multiple times he said something negative and followed it up with “but it’s there so that’s cool” but if it’s bad leave it out wtf
Best madden game is 2004-2005. They need to bring this game play back with updated graphics with mini modes and bring a city mode to this. If they do this madden will be golden
No restart on challenges? You have to quite to main menu then load everything again to restart wtf. Returning bc it’s a huge waste of of time
Lol they should let that youtuber who got excited opening packs, review this game
NFL GAMEDAY > MADDEN
Opening line is fire ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
We want NFL street 4!!!