Recent reviews by Madyline

A very cute game where you can date one girl, or all of them at once. The phone flings are fun and the women are adorable and sweet.

Holy Cow this game sucks, I mean really sucks.

Graphics: Not bad overall.
Music: Not bad
Game Play: HORRIBLE
Half-Time Show: non-existent
MUT Mode: Killing Madden, get rid of it.
Superstar Mode: Don't get me started...argh.


This game seems like a step back from Madden 25. They really didn't change much for Franchise mode and the game play makes it nearly impossible to establish a running game and the passing mechanics are okay...the catching mechanics are next to crap. Unless you have a superstar or x-factor receiver, receivers simply CAN'T catch. They'll have the ball in their hands, full control, then drop it....incomplete. I thought that was a fumble?

In any case, this game needs some serious help.....Hey EA? Would it hurt you to do this RIGHT and then playtest the game?

Wait, look who I'm asking...., nevermind.

Well, it's not much different from last year except for the chain wrestling and exchanging blows.

The showcase is 'ok', but the women's money in the bank match is 99% impossible and for some reason, Natty has a thing for Tamina (or just player one in general as she chased me around the ring for no less than two minutes)

My Rise still needs work, not really all that good..same crap as a last year.

Universe mode is only slightly changed from last year and is still pretty boring and bare bones. Work on this mode please.

My Faction: Just 2k's version of Madden's MUT mode. It's just another worthless cash cow, not worthy of my time or effort.

Manager Mode: again, not all that wonderful...there's some good stuff here, but not enough, just like universe mode. Change it.

This is not worth your money, even if it's on sale. Just play 2k24, it's essentially the same game.

Honestly, I'm very impressed with the graphics update for the game. The textures, shadows, and characters seem crisp and pretty good overall. If Elder Scrolls VI is like this, I would NOT complain about it.

Even though I'm using an old gpu (12gig 1080 ti), I can still play it on high graphics and it looks amazing. The game play is still as awesome as the original game. If you're looking for a really good role-playing game experience, and good graphics with a stellar soundtrack, play this game. I highly recommend this purchase and it makes me excited for ES VI.

Positives:
1) Impressive textures, meshes and graphics.
2) Amazing soundtrack
3) Wonderful game play
4) Great skill, attribute and leveling up system.
5) Immersive world with A LOT of exploration.

Negatives:
1) It's requires a pretty decent gaming rig to get the most out of it, requiring 8 gig VRAM.
2) Sometimes it can take the textures a few seconds to load when switching areas.

Unlike me, please invest in a monitor with greater than a max of 60 fps :P

this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks, enough said

I'm not sure I like this game as much as the original. I've gone back and played the original after playing this and I've noticed, first of all, the combat. Combat in the first one is very much based on officer stats and skills mixed with player strategy, making combat complex and difficult, but rewarding, especially during coalitions. That is not the case in the remake. Combat has been greatly simplified and it isn't as exciting or difficult. There's no adrenaline rush because you might lose.

Also, the AI expands endlessly even if they don't have the supplies or officers to properly control the cities they take.

Lastly, well, duels and debates seem rather...uninspired to say the least. Not as fun/challenging as the original. You remade the game but seemed not to know what made the first one really cool. I still have fun with this, but, had you just copy and pasted the original for port into current windows, would have been better.

I can't recommend this game for full price (which is what I paid), but if you can get it on sale, I think it's worth a play, just for the music alone.

Ok, I've played (and beaten) the demo on all difficulties with several different weapons and partners.

This game really does look amazing. Great graphics, great music, voice acting seems pretty good. New map and features are well done. The combat system overhaul is simply fantastic, requires you to think, stay alert, dodge and block to capitalize on the enemy.

If the full release is like this, the game will prove to be fantastic! I'm really looking forward to this title and I HIGHLY recommend trying to demo for yourself if you haven't yet.

Despite what others may think, I find the this expansion pretty nice overall. The main story is interesting, the side quests are fun and intriguing, the characters are well voiced and provide some depth and there are lots of locations to explore. I've been playing it for 20 hours now and I've barely touched the main story at all.

Again, I look at this as an exploration based rpg with action elements. This DLC has a lot of places to explore and plenty to survey.

Drawbacks I've seen so far have more to do with lack of Varuun inspired ship parts and not enough named characters getting an in-depth story. Overall I'll give this a decent 7/10. Could they have done better, certainly, but it is good and there are plenty of hours of fun to be had.

Got it as a gift and I think the person who gave it to me hated me...omg does this game suck. Graphics are okay, music is okay, game play BLOWS.

This game needs a very serious overhaul, it is that bad. The graphics, overall, are not bad, but the animated based gameplay is horrible. We need a real physics engine for this game. Take a year or two off (just put out roster updates), make an entirely new engine from the ground up and innovate. Then put that up for 70.00 and watch it fly off the shelves because you made a great game you can be proud of.

Music: It's abysmal! Worst soundtrack I've ever heard. What does this crap have to do with football?! Where's the really cool NFL music that gets us all hyped up?!

Superstar mode is just dumb this year. There is no way to go undrafted or be the overall #1 pick no matter how good or bad you do. Who designed this piece of crap?!

MUT mode = pay to win trash and should die a very painful death. Those who buy this game for that purpose need to have their bank accounts locked so they can't do it ever again.

Franchise mode is still pretty bland overall and needs some serious love and attention as those who truly love a good, simulation football experience play this mode almost exclusively, me included. Please EA, do better or give up your license so someone else can. Or are you scared that you're too incompetent to let that license go for fear of competition?

Oh, don't bother with the difficulty sliders or team schemes. I built the Colts up with a 99 overall team, including 99 defense with 3-4 under team defensive scheme at 100% and I still had teams with 79 overall QB's throwing for over 400 yards on my defense (simulated). This game is a joke and the devs have no idea what strategy, schemes, sliders or stats even do anymore. Do not buy this game and if someone offers you a free version, politely decline. Even Starfield was better than this.

I feel the need to go over my once negative review.

After a few patches and putting significantly more time into the game, I've learned to love what Starfield really is, an exploration RPG focused on base building. There is nothing wrong with t his and if you buy the game with this in mind, you will have fun.

Now, I'm not good at the whole base building thing, not even in Fallout 4, but it's still fun at times and in Starfield, it can give you a base on every single world (if you want to take it that far) where you can sell contraband, go to clear bounties on your head, resupply yourself with raw materials, buy/sell general items or modify/build spacecraft.

I've also learned (the hard way, didn't watch any walkthroughs) how to properly survey a planet and where the rewards for doing so are not that great, there's a great sense of satisfaction to know that you're the first to do so.

Space combat is still pretty good overall. With the ability to target individual subsystems on a spacecraft (engines being most popular) and take over a ship. Ground combat has been improved a bit and seems to work just fine. It's a system that allows for you to properly use and fire from cover. The stealth system also works relatively well, although it's best to do stealth without anyone with you and you'll have to keep to shadows and wear little to no armor as it will greatly affect your chances of success.

Another realistic aspect of the game revolves around silenced weapons. Adding a suppressor or silencer to a weapon does not totally silence the weapon, meaning other enemies can possibly hear it, but not enough to pinpoint your location. This makes stealth combat tense and more realistic as you wait to see if they'll detect you.

Side quests, some of them, are really good and definitely worth doing as they're fun even if the rewards for some aren't very good. The main story missions are interesting but can be very confusing without any background or context (some of which you get through side quests).

Companions are actually good characters with backgrounds, goals and unique personalities. Once you travel with one for a while you can learn more about them and even romance them. (except the robot, come on guys...)

Character creator is in-depth, allowing for a wide variety of options. Still can't change character height, but, I suppose one can't have everything.

The sounds and music are very good and, sometimes, relaxing.

Lastly, the visuals are actually excellent and in some cases, outright outstanding.

While not a perfect game, it's still great at what it does and what I think it's meant to be, an exploration based rpg.