Madden 25 - Run Free

Madden 25 releases today on current generation consoles. EA has brought in a few features like the return of Owner Mode. Some of the running game plays model that of NCAA Football 14 with option offenses and pistol formation. The new Precision Modifier allows users to pull off a variation of moves to trick and evade defenders. Sometimes moves get linked together and the ball carrier gains some extra yards. Option offenses and the precision modifier makes running the ball a bit easy, in fact maybe too easy (even on All-Madden). Even with normal run game, it can seem like cake to average 5+ yards a carry.

The Infinity Engine adjustments seem to flow a bit better (on current gen console, I cannot imagine the next gen experience) but there are still weird glitches the tackles look like a pile of players with epilepsy and on other occasions defenders glide across the screen like they have some gravitational pull to the ball. The inconsistency of how the game runs leaves a bit of parody which can either be extremely awesome or depressingly annoying but doesn’t take the fun out of the experience.

The re-vamped Owner Mode allows for a lot of options that effect how your franchise goes. It may sometimes feel like you are so buried in menus (dealing with contracts, prices, stadium upgrades, and the media) that you feel like you’re either missing something or you don’t care until it affects the franchise. Overall, there are enough things to do in Owner Mode to keep you busy (and you should be if you are going to run the NFL’s best team).

This 25^th anniversary edition of Madden still has a lot of the common Madden bugs in previous years but with the improvements to the run game they have gotten a step closer in mastering the real life action (although they probably will never get to that point). I will probably try to get my copy by the end of the week and get some more information to you on Owner Mode and Ultimate Team. Madden 25 gets a thumbs up from me so go out and grab a copy.