Madden NFL 13 - Season Ticket & Retail Impressions

[Rudy]

This game just feels generic and stale for me. I wish it didn't but it does. I'm bored after 4 games and some of the games have been close.

Every team has Tony Sparano's ground and pound philosophy attached to them. In Madden 12 I would see teams mirror their philosophy a lot better. M12 just seemed to have more personality. Late game cpu AI is terrible in M13. It's as though they forgot to program AI for teams and situations and the game was rushed out the door. M13 has Infinity and the new passing system which I really like but there is no personality. It doesn't help that the presentation with their terrible replays took such a big step back.

Hopefully EA releases some patch notes soon about what is getting fixed in September. As an offline gamer this game will not hold my interest if some of these things aren't fixed. I'm actually going to rent Madden 12 again to see if I'm going crazy. I don't think I can go back with some of the improvements but the downgrades are hurting my enjoyment.

The menus are slow as hell too.