Madden NFL 11 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

The way I review games is to start every game at a perfect 10 and deduct or award points based on what I like and don't like. Here goes.

Let's start with what's most obvious upon starting your first game in Madden 11. The announcers are atrocious! Most of the dialogue you hear will sound all too familiar to anyone who played last year's edition.
-1 point

Upon further play, you begin to realize how ridiculously often animations and dialogue are repeated, and the overall presentation of the game could have used some work.
-1 point

The voicing and presentation only gets worse from there. Whether it's the tiring repetition of big play animations or trying your very best to skip through the exact same pre game routines, the game gets tiring. It takes you out of the experience of feeling like your'e playing a televised game and reminds you that you are playing a rushed to release video game. The silliest flaw is that no matter what happens; a fumble recovery, a 1yd run, or an incomplete pass, if it happens at the 50yd line, the announcers exclaim it as if a player were going the distance.
-2 points, AT MIDFIELD!!!

Being an NFL fan, I watch most of Sunday's games. Nothing I do in my career has anything to do with football. I don't make NFL games. So when I hear players' names being pronounced incorrectly I have to wonder how that could ever happen. On the Bears alone, at least three key players have their name pronounced incorrectly. Robbie Gould is Robbie "Ghoul'd", Israel Idonije is Israel "Ee-doe-Knee-Jay", and I can't even comprehend how Zach Bowman got messed up.
-2 points

The game modes outside of Franchise mode feel tacked on and uninteresting.
-1 point

The gameplay is not bad and definitely the best of any Madden game to date. Locomotion works very well.
+1 points

If you play this game, save often. You learn pretty quickly that the game could freeze at any loading screen. Got me 3 times in one night. Ridiculous.
-1 point

Madden NFL 11 gets a pitiful 3/10