![]() Story is miles better than before but could still use better writing.MUT still feels like it's too heavy on buying card packs to progress at an enjoyable pace.X-Factors help bring real-life explosiveness to the game.Better guidance in MUT mode, which continues to grow more robust each year.I'd be curious to know what the statistics show regarding how many MUT diehards refrain from buying cards whatsoever. The roadmap of missions help you stay on target better so you're not lost in the sea of MUT menus, but it's still difficult to resist the packs which promise all sorts of treasures and shortcuts to get your low-ranked team ready to compete. Outside of that, the mode does a lot more of what it always does: teases you with card packs to buy. MUT is a live service mode, so new challenges and players come to it all the time, but it's good to see at launch there are some chase-worthy cards already built into challenges, like 86 overall Baker Mayfield and Deacon Jones. This year's game helps ease newcomers in with missions, a more guided approach that sort of holds your hand through the many menus of MUT. To EA's credit, MUT is the deepest experience annually, with more content than seemingly anyone could ever make time for. Ultimate Team Piles OnĮA has made Ultimate Team the focus of all their sports franchises, but if you're not someone who got in with the series years ago, it can be hard to find the right jumping-on point. It's not perfect, and at times it's ironically almost too rushed, but as a first attempt, it's a lot of fun. While not every position would be compelling - sorry interior linemen and kickers - upstart running backs, trash-talking wideouts, and defensive leaders could appear over the next few years and make Face of the Franchise a new series staple. In this year's mode, you're immovably cast as the quarterback, but one could easily envision this same sort of mode reappearing for years ahead. This background helps flesh out your draft prospects all before you get drafted by one of several eligible teams, each of whom are QB-needy in real life, like the Dolphins and Bengals. Like X-Factors, this year's Face of the Franchise feels like it'll stick around for years to come.īy taking a more hands-off approach than Longshot mode, Madden NFL 20 allows the story to behave as a brief but interesting preamble, and then quickly shuffles it off stage a la' NBA 2K, all before it can get too absurd or make too many head-scratching plot decisions.įor the first time ever, you can also choose a college to attend from a pool of about 10 major programs and play the two-game playoff series as you push for the National Championship and eventually attend the NFL Combine. ![]() Thankfully, the Madden team must've agreed change was needed because this year's new take on narrative-driven Madden is the best it's ever been. Over the past two years, Madden story modes went from bad to painfully worse. Sometimes you see a new Madden feature and you know it isn't long for this world (see: QB Vision), but X-Factors feel like something that will stick, even as that's partly because it's an easy headline to market each summer. It's a system that carries across all game modes: franchise, online, and even in Madden Ultimate Team (MUT), where you can assign X-Factor roles to your players. This focus on the league's best players is done in an arcadey way, but it's meant to represent the real-life explosiveness of players, letting them take over a game. Twenty skills are assigned across 50 players for skill positions and defenders. For others, like Aaron Rodgers, it means disabling the ability for defenders to get an interception for a while. They're given special skills that can be activated during a game after certain parameters are met.įor Mahomes, it means earning an additional 15 yards of throwing distance after he throws multiple passes that travel 30+ yards in the air. Superstars and their returning, lesser abilities are spread out to the point where you'll find several on every team, but only 50 players in the league have been designated as X-Factors. Why? Because Madden NFL 20 is largely focused on the league's most explosive playmakers, and no one was more fun to watch last season than the Chiefs' instant superstar.įor Madden, his and others' game-changing abilities manifest as new X-Factor abilities. Though the game's cover star doesn't always denote its direction, Patrick Mahomes seems like a good fit for this year's iteration. Madden NFL 20 Review: Rebuilding for Prime Time This year, Madden NFL 20brings quantitatively fewer big changes, but qualitatively, the changes it does bring feel like the building blocks of a future champion. The problem is that not all of those changes have worked, and some have even disappeared from games within a few years.
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