Five Reasons Why You'll Love Madden NFL 11 (And Three Reasons You Won't)- Gameplaybook

Gameplaybook has its very own copy of Madden NFL 11, and its team lists five reasons why you'll absolutely love it...and three why you might not.

[Cevapi88]

IMO its like 1 step forward and two steps back...not enough innovation in each iteration to warrant a $60 price tag

[GiantJedi]

Backbreaker is better, plus there company is more loyal to the fans

[Akuma20000]

Nuff said.

[Topshelfcheese]

If its better than why did it sell less than 100k copies? Regardless of NFL rights, backbreaker was a broken game. nuff said

[Akuma20000]

Even if the game did sell less than 100k copies, it certainly wasn't because of piss poor gameplay like madden....also, the update patch is now out that rectified alot of the previous problems the game had.

You'll be lucky if madden gets a couple patches a year, than the normal roster updates that you still have to pay $60 bucks for.

Backbreakers patch is free.....nuff said.

[iceman06]

mostly because it didn't have the NFL license. Look at AP2K8. It's sales were also low, because it didn't have a full NFL license. The on-field game play was actually similar to NFL 2K5 (which a lot of football fans will say is the best football game of all times). But, people just wanted their NFL teams. Also, the perspective really threw a bunch of people for a loop. After playing football from the "eagle-eye" perspective, it is hard to get used to NOT being able to see everything on the field. Passing is not an easy task in BackBreaker. You WILL take sacks. It was a broken game (so is Madden by the way). But, it was also a pretty good game despite it's flaws. The immersion of being right down on the field has never been greater than BackBreaker. The physics are a true representation of physics....at times to a fault. I might even agree that Madden is a better game right now. However, it should be. It's been a franchise for over 20 years. BackBreaker is brand new. Regardless of anything else, there is no doubt that there are things in it that were revolutionary...like the physics. I can't remember the last time that Madden revolutionized a game play mechanic in it's game. I'm not knocking Madden as a game. I am just saying that it is NOT the holy grail of football. It's all that we have had for awhile.

[SmokeyMcBear]

did you even play backbreaker? I had really high hopes for that game.. but holy crap was that game horrible.

[Colonel-Killzone]

I'm sick of these articles.

[Fishy Fingers]

Ah thank good, I need to know exactly how many points the article will raise before I can read it....

[divideby0]

I have purchased every Madden going back to early PC days, when it ran fine on 56K.
Based upon both the Live and PSN demos of madden this year. NO way am I going to buy it until a price drop.
I play 10x better without gameflow.

I would buy the game for CoOP, BUT NOT until someone says it actually works in terms of online play and camera.

NBA2K last year's CoOP with 5 on 5 was fun, but the lag killed it. The disconnects made in unplayable.

dont buy this years game for CoOp until its proven it works

[spunnups]

Exactly, a certain amount of lag makes the online portion unplayable, yet you are still paying for it. If any game needs some competition, it's Madden.

[spunnups]

The big question is, does the online part of the game still have that split-second lag that annoys the hell out of me? If games like Resistance,Burnout Paradise, and Socom have no problem with lag....why does Madden always have it?

Another bad culprit, MW2. I hate being the person that shoots first, direct hits mind you, and I'm the one that ends up dying and not one bullet is registered.

[divideby0]

I didnt have an issue with Madden online last year when I played Cable to Cable connections.....10M d/l and 5M u/l.... I know budz with dsl when I played them I did see the lag you mention even with my cable connection

[NJShadow]

Madden sucks, 2K rules... if they were actually allowed to be around to rule, with Madden securing the exclusive NFL contract and all. >.<

[Girlgamer116]

Ugh sports games!

[Byrdie]

It's just Madden, it's the same every year no matter how much MaddenFanBoys say otherwise. Even still, I bought it every year up until about 3 years ago. 2 reasons why:

1. It's gotten so arbitrarily gangsta aggressive
2. It's not worth $60 every year, they should just release roster updates instead of full games. Then again, that's typical EA hoarding money at every opportunity

[Awesomeo3000]

ive bougth every madden since 2001 and this is the first time i might now the demo felt like ea is holding my hand and walking me though a football game there is no strategy game flow is crap and if u hold X as a defender he will do "good things" wtf is that

[stephmhishot]

"Now, sometimes the AI will make boneheaded decisions (like calling a run on a third and 26…what?!)"

is a pretty piss poor example of a piss poor play call by the AI. Unless a team absolutely has to throw a bomb in that type of situation, most coaches play it say and just run a draw play to avoid a turnover. Better to punt and play the field position game.

What is a piss poor example of the Gameflow AI is when I was running a two minute drill with Peyton Manning and the computer called running plays twice near midfield when I only had one timeout.