Madden NFL 13 for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

The new "physics" brings on some better looking tackles and catches but after a play everybody has a "rag doll" effect to them to which they just flop around falling all over each other. Pretty funny but in a dumb way. The Franchise mode brought back individual manual player upgrades which is great. You can turn a rookie QB into a superstar in 1 season. The Coach and Player legends are fun to use. Then there are some major annoyances. They slightly cut down on the Superman linebackers who use to fly 20 feet in the air to block passes but they didn't totally get rid of it. In place of that they made every defensive back and linebacker with a Jerry Rice catching rating. I swear it's not my passing game, it's the CPU. They will easily intercept 10 passes a game. I had to go into the options and lower the interception rating for the CPU. While setting up your franchise options you can turn the Play Calling from Gameflow to Conventional but this does absolutely nothing. Every game I have to go into the options and change it to conventional. Also, depending on the team you pick, they force you to use a specific type of offense and defense which affects your player's ratings. Example: I use the Vikings which uses a West Coast offense and a Tampa 2 defense and no matter which playbooks I choose or coach I have they still rate your players on the West Coast and Tampa 2 which means that in order to get the highest rating out of my players I need to pick up players that strictly fit into the set offense and defense whether I like it or not. You can go into a Strategy Menu and change some things around such as a speedy DT or Man 2 Man coverage for you DBs but it will always switch it back to what your teams set offense and defense is. Very annoying and pointless to have. The Auto Save never works which may not seem like a problem except for the fact that THE GAME CONSTANTLY FREEZES so I have to start everything all over again. Just because of this I'm ready to sell it