This is quite literally the worst Madden game I've ever played.
Nothing works how it's supposed to. Defense is absolutely ****ing PATHETIC.
Man coverage is entirely useless even when using teams that have some of the best man coverage CB's in the league and they're still getting torched by mediocre WR's and TE's despite having superior ratings.
Zone coverage is only slightly less useless than man coverage, but zones are still not playing how they should. Players covering grass instead of eligible receivers well within their vicinity whether zone drops are adjusted or not.
Man or zone, doesn't matter but tell me how my highly rated corners are consistently getting beat on streaks, even while shading over the top and sometimes even backing them off? It's one thing if I'm trying to play press man every play and the WR has a great press release rating compared to a poorly rated press rating for the CB; that would be 100% understandable but that's not the case. Why would I try to run press man and risk getting the top blown off when the adjustments aren't even working to begin with and they'll still likely cook my better CB's anyway?
Contains don't seem to work and spies are even less effective than they were previous years. I should never have to even "send" the spy, he should immediately react once the QB pulls the ball down and absolutely should be already moving toward him after he breaks the pocket.
Speaking of players than only want to scramble around the backfield, this **** of running 5-7 seconds and 10-15 yards in the backfield and then waiting until the very last split-second possible before getting hit and trying to throw the ball only for the ball to travel 2 yards and fall incomplete needs to get fixed. That **** is intentional grounding in real life, yet in Madden there's no penalty for it game and no actual consequences to deter players from doing it. It's on the QB to get rid of the ball early enough before contact to avoid getting hit and if they don't then the pass has to be in the vicinity of an eligible receiver or make it back to the LOS, neither of which occur 99% of the time. That makes it an exploit considering injuries being turned off in online competitive games don't result in any repercussions for players repeatedly getting their QB's smashed into the ground.
Makes it even worse that I finally upgraded to next gen just to play this absolute dog **** game. I've played Madden on Xbox, PS3, PS4, and now PS5. How does the most advanced console have such terrible game play compared to its predecessors with worse hardware?
Everyone at EA that worked on this game should be rightfully ****ing EMBARRASSED to have their name associated with this **** rag of a game because it's not even a shell of how great this franchise used to be. John Madden is rolling over in his grave because y'all are too busy trying to figure out how to steal every nickel and dime y'all can from the gambling addicted MUT clowns than putting out an actual functioning game that was true to his vision.
If this is the best y'all can do then EA needs to clean house of every single last one of you because you don't need to be developing games. Especially not sports games you clearly know nothing about.
