![]() If I see Chuck Pagano kicking the turf in disgust one more time I will scream. There are a few welcome tweaks – being able to set your own primary receivers for a route is like manna from pigskin heaven, and receiving in general has been given a boost – but this is offset by hearing the same tired commentary lines and in-game cutscenes over and over and over again. The football is as fun and frenetic as it ever was but the game, annoyingly after the successes of Longshot, drags its feet over wanting to add anything new and ground-breaking to spice up last year’s gridiron action. In other words: you’ll feel a sense of déjà vu creeping in after a dozen or so downs. Cosmetically, there isn’t much in the way of improvement either: a few nice, painstakingly-rendered details added to stadiums (the light glare sneaking onto the field from the window wall at the northern end of Lucas Oil Stadium will impress many a Hoosier) can only gloss over so much. Play Now Live – enabling you to play any 2017 NFL season game – is a ‘new’ feature that should have been put in many moons ago. 3 v 3 online team play is (finally) back, but integrated awkwardly into ‘MUT Squads’ so, if yours or your friends’ teams aren’t up to scratch then you’re going to be on the end of some heavy blowout losses, which isn’t much fun at all. Targeted Passing is twitchy, a click of the left trigger will open up a manual option to pass but you’ll more often look like Bortles than Brady when throwing the rock. It’s disheartening, then, that the majority of the other changes can be whittled down to a short paragraph, and therein lies Madden’s biggest flaw. 17 years of the 'Madden curse' from NFL to Ronda Rousey
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