IGN: Madden NFL 11 Wii Review

At the end of the day, Madden NFL 11 doesn't bring enough new worthwhile content to the table to bring it beyond the bar set by last year's game. It's still a very functional and enjoyable game of football at its core, but the franchise mode isn't the big step forward that anyone who was excited about the addition was hoping for. Five-on-five is fun enough, but again, it doesn't really add much. Here's hoping that EA Sports can put some real weight behind next year's game to innovate the franchise a bit more on Nintendo's system.

Presentation - 8.0
Graphics - 7.5
Sound - 7.0
Gameplay - 8.0
Lasting Appeal - 7.0
Overall -

[tunaks1]

lame ea,
just lame

[Trroy]

64MB of memory to work with, no HDD meaning no large storage files for things like franchise mode... what do you expect from the Wii? EA refined Madden for *years* with the XBox's 64MB memory limitation in mind, and honestly the Wii's extra 24MB of video memory isn't much more. How can Madden Wii really grow much beyond the last gen versions of the game, particularly when that 24MB of extra memory has already been utilized by the previous 4 years of Wii Madden games?

Frankly, I never expect a Wii Madden to look or play any better than Madden 2005 on the Xbox 1 -- expecting more is unrealistic. The Wii hardware tech is a good 8 years old (circa 2002) -- games on the Wii just aren't going to get any better.