this game can be fun if your really into football. the best improvement is superstar.. back in madden 06 i loved superstar and thats all i played.. in 09 it started sucking and i only started playing franshise. the fact that they made superstar better makes the lasting appeal much better

Love this game! Huge upgrade from the last. Tackling is better passing game made more real. Online play is pretty good you still get people who don't play football they just blitz or never punt stuff like that but you can neg rate them and play within your own rating. Good Game Cool new madden moments as long as you have online.

A step up from last year. Franchise mode and gameplay are much improved. although scouting feature is pretty useless. I've had no problems with online play so far but am dissapointed they ignored online franchise mode which for me held it back from being a 10.

The most realistic football game ever made. This game feels like they have finally been able to get the defense, passing and running all perfect. Qbs perform like they should with badly rated players easily getting picked off by aggressive high rated defenders. A must for any madden fan. Great improvements and really fun.

Pros -Tackling is better -No sprint is a good thing -Music is o.k. -Scouting college players is done well. The combine stats should be available, but I like that they give you a guess on their ratings. Cons -Control is worse than last year. Control is actually downright terrible. -Graphics are more arcade looking... worse than last year -Menus look more like a street fighter game. Worse than last year
-Commentary is unchanged from last year, they didn't even fix the mispronounced names (there are a lot of them)
-Even more glitches. They didn't fix any of the old gameplay glitches that I can tell, and added many more glitches.
-20 or 30 common events cause the game to freeze for a couple seconds before running correctly.
-Player traits don't do anything if the player is on defense, offensive line, or wideout. Player traits for qb's and rb's do some stuff. If a qb or rb is hot then they are unstoppable.
-It almost feels like there is no point in controlling a defensive player, the control is so bad for db's that you can't use them. Using a linebacker only good for blitzing. Using a defensive lineman is largely detrimental as player controlled d-lineman get pancaked more than usual.
-Animations of the stadiums are glitchy (you can see through dome animations quite often)
-All the presentation add-ons (Teams running out on to the field) become annoying after playing 2 games. Pointless.
-Kicking meter is worse than it's ever been. On top of this, kicking is now shown from a side angle, which is annoying.
-Long animations of the offense walking to the line before a play gives you less time to adjust at the line (offense or defense). This animation is pointless and bland, and takes away from gameplay.
-Player of the game is chosen seemingly at random. A quarterback can throw 5 touchdowns and a cornerback from the losing team with 1 tackle and nothing else will win player of the game.
-The fumble plague has returned to Madden.
-Dropped picks happen too often, then all of a sudden, a guy will teleport to pick the ball off.
-Players sliding and teleporting is down, but still very noticeable in every game.
-Still too many plays in the playbook that are completely worthless.
-Ball still passes through body parts on it's way to a receiver.

Summary
I'm done with madden. I was able to tweak madden 11 to the point where it was challenging and fun. But the presentation and gameplay of this one is more like Blitz as presented by Madden, with all of Madden's glitches and downfalls. I've played 10 games and I'm already certain i'm going to trade it in for dead island.… Expand