MADDEN 22/HEAD COACH 09
I would like Colin & his team personally to put a considerable amount of time into EA Sports Head Coach 2009. This is an EA game that in my opinion, and I feel many others would also strongly agree, ...
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@JakeLaRose24 Can you explain what aspects of HC2009 you enjoyed that would improve madden?
@Kabma I believe every aspect of the team building is superior. The trades are more realistic. Picking your playbook and having to match schemes to fit that playbook. When you choose a certain scheme for a position group their ratings change as to how they fit that system (Example: Ted Ginn Jr set as a speed receiver is an 86 OVR, switch the scheme to “balanced” and he drops to a 68 OVR because he was very fast but not very good anywhere else) I had to learn more about football to actually effectively play this game. You have every positional coach and coordinators on your staff that all have very in depth skill trees. You have to negotiate rookie deals where they counter offer and will hold out of training camp/offseason. You actually have to struggle with cap space. I was fired twice for playing the game as I would madden.
- @JakeLaRose24 Also, there’s a thing called “the 50” where there are 50 pre made rookies that have special qualities. Somewhat of an “Easter egg” Retired players can become coaches/gms
- @JakeLaRose24 Have you tried the franchise mode? Sounds pretty similar to various components under the franchise mode of Madden.
You should play a few seasons in franchise and see what you think.- @Kabma Lol. That is all I have to say to that. I have played countless hours of Madden from 08-21. The game has done nothing but regress. You have a .2 user score. The community is not happy. Especially the franchise community. Answers like this is why your game has not progressed in years. The game has a very of these features and they are very shallow. The trading system is absolute garbage. I routinely run 3-4 style DE/LB in 4-3 systems with no penalty. You do not even have coordinators let alone positional coaches. Contract negotiations are not even something that is considered because it is the same thing every single time. I would suggest YOU go try the franchise mode in each of these games. If you know the first thing about football you will see HC2009 is superior in every aspect of the game other than graphics. The lack of work that the producers of a AAA title are willing to put in absolutely amazes me. The fact nobody is willing to go out some time into this game and they’d rather tell me to go play the absolute garbage franchise mode in Madden 21. I have madden 21 for the PS5. Haven’t played in over a month because I’ve been playing my Xbox 360 that has better EA titles on it. If you want to impress your community, a complete overhaul is what is needed. Take a year off for all we care. We need a new game. I play madden 25 and use the same relocation teams.
