Everything is falling into place as we prepare to enter August. The Dallas Cowboys have another problem with a star player just as the season is getting ready to start and they might have to place all of their hopes and dreams on the back of their one year wonder at quarterback. NFL Camps will start very soon, and with that excitement blowing in the soon to come autumn wind – we have another year of Madden NFL only a few weeks away.
The crazy part about this is that up until this point there hasn’t been any gameplay footage released by EA. With the fans clamoring for some proof of life in that regard it is hard to have a lot of pity for them. They should know what the game looks like by now. EA is trying their best to market their version of NBA 2K’s My Player Mode with The Longshot. I wish I could say that this was going to be some sort of huge jump in sports gaming – but it quite simply won’t be anything close to that. According to some of the tweets and interviews, this mode has been in development for around three years. To think they have been working on this for three years and we still don’t have functional Challenges, sideline detection, real-time injuries, and many other simple football gameplay needs… Longshot had better be a masterpiece with zero bugs.
The problems that Madden NFL has faced for over a decade involves more than not measuring up to 2K’s basketball story mode experience. It is everything that 2K would have done if EA didn’t have the monopoly on NFL Football. It’s hard for me to think about how great an NFL 2K18 would be and by how much it would most likely outsell Madden 18. Madden has made some strides in recent years, no doubt… but, compared to where either game could be had there been competition? We would have seen gameplay footage by E3, if not sooner.
Madden continues to push the line that they are leading with their new Longshot Mode for marketing. I find it interesting that this is their strategy. This is mostly because I can see through their thin veil of BS. They aren’t showing gameplay footage because, frankly… they don’t have to show anything and the game will still sell. Madden hasn’t changed in any major way since Madden 10. Now that we have come to the point where they don’t even have to market the game itself with any actual gameplay footage it does beg one to ask yourself as part of the Madden horde… why are any of you pre-ordering this game?
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