Mom's Minute

Madden NFL 12

Source of News:  HoshKosh, Rob Ebert, September 1, 2011

Article:  Video Games:  Madden gains ground, loses ground with 12. 

As you probably know, Madden NFL 12 made its debut a few weeks back.  So by now, if you have purchased the game and played it, you may have already come to a conclusion whether or not Madden NFL 12 is a good game, a "so-so" game, or a game that is not even worth buying in the first place.

If you recall, I played the Madden NFL 10 video game awhile back, and gave you my review.  My impression of this game, at that time  was that it seemed to be playing itself, and there was not much I could do (it seemed), to control the players. Not sure if this was an "operator error" on my part, but sometimes I would not push any buttons on the controller, and the players would be moving around the football field. Could be that this is in the design of the game.

 On the flip side, I was impressed with  the realistic graphics.  I recall a scene in the game where the camera panned to the sports announcers, who were realistically making facial  gestures, and moving around.

Unfortunately, I have not played Madden NFL 12 yet, so I'm unable to give you my personal views on this game.  As soon as I play this game, I will let you know what I think about it.

 However, the author of this article, Rob Ebert,  did play Madden NFL 12, and came away from the game unimpressed. He states that with every new part that EA adds, another part becomes defective and needs to be fixed.

The author refers to the football players in the game, I think rather harshly, as floating robots, who just seem to move around aimlessly when given signals.

These are not what I would consider rave,  positive reviews.  EA may have to go back to the drawing board for some "do overs"?

But as I mentioned previously, you may have your own views about this game, and may completely agree, or disagree with the author.

Here are pictures of the PS3 and Xbox 360 Madden NFL  12 video game covers:

That's it for my video game news for you! 

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