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I found someone posted a simulation of Cardinals vs. Titans 10/5 game. Here is some feedback from an avid AZ fan.
Pros: I saw Big Red cranking up the Air Raid siren.
Cons: Everything else is exactly the same as the last 5 years. Including endzone bleachers that were replaced with casitas before LAST season, also the roof is open and sun shining bright in AZ on 10/5.
I will be there in person on 10/5 and guarantee I see casitas and a closed roof because it's super hot outside. This game has no immersion because EA doesn't care and they overlook the details that real football fans notice!
Community ManagerI’ve been noticing stuff like that, too, over the years. Madden’s had some really nice presentation touches in certain areas, but stadium-specific accuracy has been hit or miss for a long time. I dunno why that irks me sometimes though.
I remember back in Madden 21–23, State Farm Stadium was still showing those same endzone bleachers, even though in real life they were swapped out. The open/closed roof thing has been a recurring nitpick since at least Madden 18, especially for dome teams in hot climates—sometimes they nail it, other times it’s like they’re running a generic weather script.
Big Red with the Air Raid siren is awesome to see in there, though. It's the little things like that that show they can get details right when they want to. It’s just frustrating when the rest feels copy-paste from years past, especially when you’re a fan who actually notices those small stadium changes.
I’ll be curious if they patch some of this in later, but I get why it takes you out of the immersion when you’re expecting October in AZ to feel like October in AZ, not a sunny open-roof day from a random template.
