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Madden NFL (Video Game)

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Madden NFL (Video Game)	comment	The definitive football franchise. The game that brought video football into the 21st century.Developed by Electronic Arts, John Madden Football, later shortened to simply Madden NFL, is the namesake of coaching legend John Madden, an American Football game based on the National Football League that has, since 1988, been released annually, and always falls among the top sellers of gaming each year. It's praised for its realistic level of play, to the point where the latest edition is frequently used to predict the outcome of big games up to and including the Super Bowl.Still, the franchise has some detractors (mainly because, by this point, they've run out of things to add, so the latest sequels are more like roster updates). The most notable incident happened in 2005, when it was announced that the Madden games would be the only football games allowed to use current NFL players and teams for (at least) the next few years. While many people blamed EA for buying out the license because they couldn't handle competition, the truth is that the NFL was going to give one franchise or the other exclusivity; the venerable Madden franchise simply won the bidding war.note Remember Sega and 2K selling their NFL game for only $20? The NFL was pissed about that, believing nothing carrying the NFL logo should be presented as a "discount product". Sega and 2K were parted from the NFL license shortly thereafter; fortunately for the latter, their 2K series of NBA games is still quite popular.Also of note is the Madden Curse, which has felled some of the great football players of the last decade, and was famous enough to have its own page on this wiki before it was decided to be cut. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who appeared on the cover of Madden NFL 20, eventually broke the "curse" when he would go on to win Super Bowl LIV, as well as the game's MVP award, on February 2, 2020. Both he and Tom Brady, the latter who was also the cover athlete of Madden NFL 18, shared the cover of Madden NFL 22, released after both men appeared in Super Bowl LV, which Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won.Madden NFL 18 introduces a full story mode, named Longshot, which focuses on two fictional players - childhood friends Devin Wade, quarterback, and Colton "Colt" Cruise, wide receiver - from the town of Mathis, Texas (though the town's appearance in-game is largely In Name Only) and their struggles involved with trying to play for the NFL. This mode received a sequel, Longshot: Homecoming in Madden NFL 19, which separates the two characters into different plots.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Madden draft classes are usually randomly generated, but from 10 to Madden 25, they were specifically created. This leads some to notice similarities between the athletes you can draft and real college players whose names they cannot legally use. A few of these are also Shout Outs to the NFL Head Coach series some of the programmers worked on as well.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1778d9a0	comment	Run, Don't Walk: Players run as fast as their Speed rating allows by default, with a button press option of a short-area, temporary speed burst on top of it. This can actually be detrimental as there is no easy method for slowing down while maintaining a straight path, such as in situation where your ball carrier is waiting for blockers to open up a hole to run through.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_17c7c925	type	Frothy Mugs of Water
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_17c7c925	comment	Frothy Mugs of Water: In owner mode, the user can set concession prices for every product a stadium sells, except beer.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_19f8dabe	comment	Victory Pose: Various iterations have included certain the signature poses and dances of certain players, which they perform after scoring, getting a sack, picking up a first down, etc.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1a2dc1fd	type	Mission-Pack Sequel
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1a2dc1fd	comment	Mission-Pack Sequel: The criticism that each new year is "just a roster update" essentially boils down to this. The developers actually do try to add new modes and gameplay features each year; how this criticism is received is inversely related to how well that year's new features were received.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: 16 has a Cold Open which introduces some of the new gameplay elements for that iteration in a scenario with Arizona and Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. This one includes a branching storyline.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Key players, like Tom Brady, Deshaun Watson, and Antonio Brown (in Homecoming) get minor speaking parts. The cast of Good Morning Football appears on some scripted segments about the mode's characters.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The cover of Madden 22 includes both Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. The PS4 / Xbox One versions have Brady holding the ball, aka the prior generation's elite QB. Meanwhile the Series X / PS5 have Mahomes holding it, aka the next generation's elite QB.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Lampshaded Trope. In 13 and onward, there are fake Twitter feeds from real ESPN analysts in career mode. If a player has a truly absurd performance, one of them may tweet something about it being "straight out of a video game" and hashtag it #fourthwall. After a successful field goal, the stadium Jumbotrons will sometimes show an animation incorporating the video game's kicking meter. The announcer commentary in Superstar KO mode doesn't pretend it's anything but a video game.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1fa83f70	type	Competitive Multiplayer
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_1fa83f70	comment	Competitive Multiplayer: Naturally. Being able to play against your friends (initially on the same console with two controllers and later online) is one of the big selling points of the game.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_20fddb03	comment	Loading Screen: The various iterations of the game have treated this differently over the years. Some include extra tidbits of information and/or reminders of the controls on the loading screen. Some just show images of different players. 10 includes outright advertisements in their loading screens, particularly for Snickers.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Detailed under Worst Aid below, but in the older versions, the ambulance drivers have...Skewed Priorities at best.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_23cb7c45	comment	So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear: Starting with Madden 25, players would earn XP each week you sent them into practice mode. That XP could be used on traits which would provide an immediate bonus, or to invest in a player long-term by using extremely expensive development upgrades. This, of course, deferred their on-field improvement until later. However, the game also included a mechanic whereby players could become so "insulted" by your contract offer (even if it was exactly what they asked for!) that they flatly refuse to sign with you and take all your expensive development to another team.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_26ba32a3	comment	Ascended Glitch: After a video that showed a glitch that featured Cleveland Browns linebacker Christian Kirksey reduced to 1'2" in size went viral, and said linebacker tweeted it, EA made him part of an Ultimate Team Weekly Challenge.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: In franchise mode, "Ego" is a hidden stat which will affect the way a player behaves, such as taking a hit to his morale if he's not getting a lot of playing time or holding out for more money in the offseason. A high Ego for big name but hard-to-handle players like Terrell Owens or Chad Johnson made sense. It makes less sense, however, for a low-rated CPU generated player you drafted in the 7th round to have a hugely inflated Ego, to the point where it hurts the morale of the entire team if the lousy backup center isn't getting the playing time he wants.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Madden allows players to mix-and-match a team's uniform elements. Considering some teams have radically changed their colors over franchise history, this can lead to some horrendously ugly combinations. Madden 25 even includes ESPN.com columnist/blogger Paul Lukas to mock you if you do this.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The Madden NFL series no longer has anything to do with John Madden since his 2009 retirement and 2021 death. He continued to lend his likeness for cameos after 2009, most notably as an Ink-Suit Actor as the coach of Madden 13's Canton Greats all-star team.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Many plays in the playbook take too long to develop or rely on trickery that doesn't fool the AI, so they never get used. Examples include reverses, double reverses, reverse passes...basically anything more "tricky" than a play-action or a draw.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_31bb8fe1	comment	Leon Sandcastle was Deion Sanders' alter ego in a Super Bowl Special ad for the 2013 Super Bowl. Within a month, he had been added to Ultimate Team as a playable character.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_32b1d92a	comment	Drafting Mechanic: In Franchise mode, a simulation of the NFL Draft is one of the offseason events. Barring a few years where you could import draft classes from the NCAA Football sister series, the draft classes are made up of randomly generated CPU players. It mostly plays out like the real thing, with one difference being that it only has the seven rounds of standard picks, not including compensatory picks. An option before starting up in Franchise mode is to hold a "Fantasy Draft" which allows you to draft your team in a fantasy football style. Every player in the league is added to the draft pool and the CPU selects for the other 31 teams. The result is a major shakeup of rosters across the league.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: In the games from the mid-2000s at least through 08 for the PC version, players would sometimes start to disappear from rosters mid-season without explanation. The more seasons you went into Franchise Mode, the more likely it was to occur. Enthusiast forums encouraged making a separate save file at the start of every season and, if you encountered the bug, to go back to that file. It was unfortunate to lose a season, but it was better than losing the entire franchise. Madden 06 in particular had a nasty bug which would break Franchise Mode and even corrupt players' saved data. Madden 07 for PC note also Madden 08, but only in Superstar mode has an absurd bug involving clock management. In between plays, you can zoom out to see more of the field. This is often done after long passes, to see if the players are back to the line of scrimmage. However, when the camera is zoomed out, the clock will stop. So if you're down late in a game, you can attempt long passes over and over again, and if you can't get out of bounds, all you have to do is zoom out the camera, and not need to use up a timeout or spike the ball. Madden 16 shipped with major glitches in franchise mode that caused some players' ratings to plummet during the season, while others started exploding, even going over 100 in some cases. The bug was so prominent that the game developers were going to enthusiast forums to tell people not to start those game modes until they were patched. In individual career mode for Madden 20, the game would sometimes begin assigning the player goals that did not correspond to the position they played (i.e. passing touchdowns for a defensive player). The player would naturally fail these goals week after week until they were cut from their team. An unknown bug in the EA Servers caused Madden 20 online franchise mode to be inaccessible for several days, in the middle of the NFL season. Madden 21 shipped with multiple game breaking bugs, most notable of which being one that would fail to load the field lines - making it impossible to tell where the sidelines, end zone, or line to gain were. Madden 22 had two significant bugs: One caused star players' morale to freefall between games, causing Super Star players like Khalil Mack to retire if they failed to get a sack in even a single game. The second related to the "Progressive Fatigue" system, which would cause players to get more tired during the season if they practiced too frequently. The AI coaches would drive all their starters to exhaust by practicing like a Drill Sergeant Nasty, which meant by December the majority of AI teams were down to their backups. 23 had numerous upon launch. Connected Franchise has an issue where games played sometimes register as 0-0 ties regardless of the result. Disconnects in any online mode far surpass the post-launch totals of previous iterations. Any "overlays" (Steam, GeForce, Origin, etc.) seem to instantly crash the game. In franchise mode, the game would sometimes fail to remove the art assets used for cutscenes, meaning that the team's draft room, coaches' office, etc. would appear at the 50 yard line in the middle of the stadium and obstruct the player's view. "Face of the Frachise" mode, despite receiving heavy push from EA in prerelease marketing, has a nasty bug that can break the save after any given season, even the first. The only free agency offer is from "NFL" and must be accepted to continue, after which the game either crashes back to the title screen or your player is forced to retire. A bug struck Online Franchise from December 28-29 (during many players' holiday vacations) which caused nearly 60% of those who logged in to permanently corrupt their save files. EA's official solution was to start over. In franchise mode for 23, the Salary Cap would continue to rise year over year at roughly the same rate as real life. However, AI logic from players' contract demands and AI teams' offers never climbed to match. Meaning that franchise gets progressively easier over time as human players can easily outbid CPU teams for all their best free agents while the CPU keeps itself to 2022 budgets. Roster updates frequently mislabel player injuries, meaning they can be held out far longer than in real life. For example, Bills cornerback Tredavious White returned to play in October of the 2022 season, but the roster listed him as lost for the year. On the flip side, Deshaun Watson served an 11-game suspension, but rosters have no mechanic for suspensions, forcing players to alter his stats to make him unplayable in order to maintain realistic outcomes.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_34439d52	comment	Rubber-Band A.I.: One of the more shining examples in modern gaming. Bill Simmons of ESPN coined the term "No F***ing Way game" for the times when the computer makes an unbelievable Miracle Rally while your own players become inept clods. It is often accused of featuring an "AI catch-up mode", in which opposing teams inexplicably become drastically more potent in the final minutes of a close game, often to the point where preventing them from completing long bombs and scoring touchdowns seems like an impossible task (sometimes called "Robo QB"), even when the AI controlled team showed absolutely nothing in the earlier portions of the game to indicate that they were capable of this. In most cases, the AI level of rubberbanding is directly related to the difficulty level. On the easiest difficulty level, the AI doesn't rubberband at all: the same tactics, the same plays, over and over. As difficulty level goes up, so does the degree of rubberbanding: on the highest difficulty level, as soon as the player reaches anything approaching a lead, the AI responds aggressively - players for the human-controlled team become utterly inept, well below what their rating would justify, while players for the computer-controlled team become unstoppable juggernauts far beyond what their ratings would justify. Furthermore, the rubberbanding does not work in the opposite direction, however. The AI just goes back to the normal difficulty. Inverted beginning with Madden 22, where a team who jumps out to an early lead will have "Momentum," providing stat and other bonuses and making it substantially harder for the trailing team to mount a comeback.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: Brian Finneran from 04 was coming off his only noteworthy season, but happened to share the roster with Michael Vick, that year's cover athlete who was nearly unstoppable in-game. Throwing unerringly accurate laser beam passes from Vick to Finneran in that year's edition was so easy that Finneran has come to be considered a Madden legend, and he appears in the Madden 25 and 16 "Ultimate Team" mode with a completely absurd 95 OVR rating. Superstar KO mode includes numerous celebrities as extremely good players. For example, Snoop Dogg is a wide receiver with elite speed and agility. Playable characters in "The Yard", a backyard-style mode in Madden 21, include three NBA players—two-time league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brothers Thanasis and Kostas. In 22, EA introduced "Campus Legends" mode, which allows for head-to-head matchups of all-star teams from colleges like Texas, Oregon, LSU, Alabama, etc. Because EA does not have likeness rights to all the previous college players, they dropped in a number current NFL players (whose rights they do have due to the NFLPA contract), then buffed them to unrealistic levels so they could play alongside the historic elite. Examples include Nebraska's Lamar Jackson (not the one you're thinking of), Michigan State's Taybor Pepper (a career long-snapper made into a starting Tight End), and Florida linebacker Jachai Polite (who was cut by the Jets before playing a single game).
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: 12 includes an achievement called "Put Da Team On My Back" for scoring a 99 yard touchdown with Greg Jennings. Broken leg optional. Gus Johnson's commentary track also includes his (in)famous line "He's got 'gettin' away from the cops' speed!" Several fans like to use image editing programs to replace the cover with their own creation, spotlighting their favorite player. When Brett Favre un-retired and returned to the Jets in the year he was the cover athlete, EA released their own Photoshop job of Favre in a Jets jersey for players to use instead. Madden 21 added the "Hall of Very Good" as a Legacy rank, paralleling sports talk commentary about players who were just-not-quite-good-enough to make the Hall of Fame. After years of complaints that Tom Brady retired in the game far sooner than in real life (usually after the first season played in Franchise mode), they severely reduced the threshold to make him retire. Many players reported seeing Brady hanging around in their franchises into his late 50s
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The players are often given their own signature dance moves to do after they score a TD or record a sack. Examples include Charles Woodson doing his famous Heisman pose, Jared Allen "lassoing" the QB, Santonio Holmes flying around like a Jet, Tebowing, etc. Saturday Night Live even mocked this with a sketch about Eli Manning trying and utterly failing to develop one in motion capture.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_3ac5110b	comment	Unintentionally Unwinnable: In Ultimate Team mode, if you play exceptionally poorly or quit a lot of games, you can run out of players (who are limited to a certain number of games) and be unable to replace them with fresh ones. It is possible to spend real money to get out of this situation.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_3bfd0eb	comment	Motion Capture: Brought into the series with Madden 1994 and used ever since, getting more advanced over time.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4012900d	comment	God Modders: Extremely common in tournament and online play. The most famous example being "Joke" fielding a teamnote The tourney allowed players to customize a team using a fictional salary cap in the 2020 Madden Bowl with 8 offensive lineman, two Hall of Fame talents in the backfieldnote Franco Harris at FB and Gale Sayers at HB, and punter Tress Way as his QB. After he won the tournament without attempting a single pass, the game was reported even in national media like USA Today and The Washington Post.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_44c8248e	type	Gambler's Fallacy
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_44c8248e	comment	Gambler's Fallacy: Common when it comes to each game's opening coin flip of all things. It isn't unusual to see posts in enthusiast forums boasting of lengthy coin flip winning streaks or complaining about long coin flip losing streaks, especially when it comes to online games (and thus, against other people). Oddly enough, it has been proven that Madden coin tosses are indeed deterministic.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: For the PC version, which was discontinued for 10 years after Madden 08. A team of dedicated modders continues to release reasonably accurate roster updates, complete with player portraits and coaching staff changes, every year so that they and their PC-playing brethren can continue to enjoy the game. They've even released mods to keep the game up to date with NFL rule changes, like moving kickoffs to the 35-yard line and extra point kick attempts to the 15-yard line. Madden 19 has brought the game back to PC and, like previous versions, has quickly formed a dedicated modding community which offers everything from minor gameplay tweaks to graphics improvements to full blown overhauls (such as converting the game into an updated version of EA's discontinued NCAA Football series).
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	comment	Naturally, it is possible for a skilled player to guide a team with no realistic chance of winning the Super Bowl in real life to the title in-game. If you win a Super Bowl as the Cleveland Browns in the games from late 2010s to early 2020s (during which the Browns had one of the worst stretches in NFL history), the in-game commentary brings this up.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	type	You Have Researched Breathing
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	comment	You Have Researched Breathing: Most "Superstar" abilities - special abilities reserved for the most elite players in the NFL - allow those players to go above and beyond other players, typically involving use of their exception physical attributes. However, one group of those abilities is "Route Apprentice", which allows a receiver additional hot routes. The routes added are nothing special and any player can run them if the play is called in the huddle. Indeed, being able to understand hot route calls from a quarterback would be expected of any veteran player, not just the elite.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4ad522e2	type	Super Title 64 Advance
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4ad522e2	comment	Super Title 64 Advance: The first N64 edition of the game was called Madden Football 64.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4f0b6445	type	Announcer Chatter
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4f0b6445	comment	Announcer Chatter: Well, it is named for one. The commentary teams have changed over the years, with Madden 17 taking a new route - two commentators who live near the studio and come in weekly during the season to update the commentary to match what is happening in the real NFL.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The series did not obtain the NFL license until Madden NFL '94. The NFLPA didn't sign on until Madden '95 (no real players were featured before then), and no coaches' names other than Madden himself were featured until Madden 2001, when EA obtained the NFL Coaches' Association license. John Madden himself appeared on the covers, usually alone, until 01. Since then, players have been featured exclusively, save for 23, the first game released after his death.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	type	Do Well, But Not Perfect
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	comment	Do Well, But Not Perfect: The in-game officials are programmed to make mistakes on occasion to allow for coach's challenges. In Franchise Mode, if your team wins three Super Bowls in a row (unprecedented in reality), your head coach will retire and you'll be forced to promote an assistant coach or hire a free agent, both options likely resulting in a lesser coach in terms of ratings. The only other reason a coach will retire is due to age (with the odds increasing the older he gets and a RNG roll at the start of the offseason determining it), but a Super Bowl three-peat will ensure this. In Madden 2004, a single player cannot accumulate more than 1023 rushing yards (more than three times the actual NFL record) in a single game; any more would wrap around to -1024 due to an overflow error. With a good team, a good playbook, and a good working knowledge of AI behavior, the player might need to cut a run short and make a substitution to avoid wrecking his star running back's statistics. Starting with the iterations in the late '10s, many players have complained that the star QB of their undefeated team who set multiple NFL single-season records would lose out on awards like league MVP to players with far lesser performances. In an attempt to discourage AI abuse, it seems that the game penalizes these players for their unrealistically good performances. Doing realistically well is fine, but don't do too well.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_566f1565	comment	In more recent games with online roster updates available, these types of players are usually removed, but instances still occur. (Like Brett Favre in 2008 "retiring" from the Packers, only to then sign with the Jets. As that year's Madden games had already shipped, Favre, who was on the cover of the game, was made available as a free agent until the first roster update.)
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_57a70347	type	Homing Boulders
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_57a70347	comment	Homing Boulders: It was common in the early generations of the series for passes, kicks, or even tacklers to travel in unusual, possibly unnatural ways to ensure the calculated result. Naturally, this has improved over the years with improvements in technology, but it is still possible to see examples where, for example, a tackle initiated from the side of the ball carrier inexplicably drives the ball carrier backwards by several yards.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_59da9841	type	Skill Gate Characters
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_59da9841	comment	Skill Gate Characters: Every iteration of the game usually has at least one team which beginner players can use to defeat AI competition rather easily. This team usually has a skilled QB, at least one stud WR, and a speedy defense. (Any Colts or Broncos team under Peyton Manning frequently fit the bill.) However, skilled players could usually easily defeat the unskilled players using these superior teams quite easily, even when using far less talented teams themselves thanks to their superior knowledge of the game.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	Disc-One Nuke: When one of the Crutch Character free agents is a particularly good player. Some notable examples: After Steve Young's and Barry Sanders' relatively surprising retirements, EA left them in the game as free agents, available for any team to sign. There's nothing like adding Hall of Fame players with ratings in the 90s to nuke the competition. In more recent games with online roster updates available, these types of players are usually removed, but instances still occur. (Like Brett Favre in 2008 "retiring" from the Packers, only to then sign with the Jets. As that year's Madden games had already shipped, Favre, who was on the cover of the game, was made available as a free agent until the first roster update.) Blackballed quarterback Colin Kaepernick was added as a free agent in Madden 21, more than 4 years after last playing in the NFL. With an 81 overall, he was the top-rated free agent QB and more highly rated than half of the league's starting quarterbacks.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	type	Bribing Your Way to Victory
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: A couple of ways: Madden Ultimate Team mode essentially turns team creation into a collectible card game, with all the pros and cons that entails. Several editions of the game allow the player to unlock various "tokens" (for various achievements) which - if used strategically and correctly - could virtually ensure victory for a player before the first snap. Most of these were rather routine (e.g., disabling a pass-receiver's abilities, giving the team a generous spot when near a first down, holding teams to three downs per series, etc.), but a few of the more inventive have included such things as unlimited challenges, which could then be used in combination with another token that would allow favorable verdicts each time. The Xbox 360 version of 13 has an achievement for calling an audible with the Kinect add-on, which is of course a separate purchase. Coach Glass was an add-on app available for the Xbox One which gave you a great deal of information about your opponent's tendencies mid-game, but it required a tablet to use.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d	type	Dump Stat
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d	comment	Dump Stat: Counterintuitively, many Madden players prefer their quarterback's Awareness rating to be as low as possible despite it having one of the biggest impacts on their overall rating. While Awareness plays a major part in how well players perform when not actively controlled, it is largely irrelevant with the human player in control. On offense, the quarterback will almost always be controlled by the human until they've passed the ball, meaning that the throwing ability and athleticism ratings will be far more important. With a lower Awareness, quarterbacks will be cheaper to trade for, cheaper to re-sign to new contracts, and go lower in fantasy drafts. Naturally, this makes raw-but-physically talented rookie QBs very popular as they will have low Awareness due to their lack of experience, but in the hands of the human player, will be able to perform just as well as similarly talented players but higher overall players. However, with success comes ratings progression, especially Awareness, so after a few seasons, even the lowest Awareness QBs will see it maxed out. In an inverse of the trade scenario above, you can trade your now-elite QB for a plethora of draft picks and other players, then select a new raw rookie to start the process over again. Note that this does not apply for simulating games. Double Subverted with Awareness during the infamous "Vision Cone" era from 06 to 08. Attempting to give meaning to Awareness for QBs, EA implemented a highlighted cone extending outward from the QB's face and they could only accurately pass to receivers within that cone. QBs with higher Awareness had a bigger cone, with the very best of that era (Brady, Peyton, Favre, etc.) having cones that covered most of the field. Unfortunately, players quickly discovered that a smaller cone could be used to "look off" defenders (as in pointing the cone away from your intended target), causing defenders to shift their coverage in that direction, leaving your intended target wide open. With a little practice, the player could simply move the cone at the last second to complete easy deep passes. Players with high Awareness and thus large cones, could not be used in this way, once again reinforcing Awareness as a Dump Stat.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The AI players will often react to things they shouldn't be able to see, meaning many plays which rely on that deception don't work in the game the way they should in real life. In an Inversion, the player, by default, gets to see things from 20 or 30 feet above the action, allowing a much wider field of view than what a player at field level gets to see. Some players, as a form of Self-Imposed Challenge, will switch to a first-person view of the player they are manually controlling, similar to how it would be in real life. It is notably much more challenging. This YouTuber has several examples in which the AI cheats in Madden 2010 - to varying degrees (from "mind reading" AI to "magic trick" ball recovery). On the higher difficulty levels, the computer will have almost always have called a play that is specifically designed to counter whatever you just called. Players don't suffer many injuries in played games, but if you decide that there are a few games on the schedule that you don't want to bother with and let the computer simulate them, your roster will start to look like a hospital ward. It is possible to invert the trope, however, if you play out all your own team's games. If the AI challenges a play, they will win 9 times out of 10. If the player challenges a play, they will lose 9 times out of 10. The latter half of this could theoretically be attributed to terrible camera angles when they are reviewing the plays. Sometimes you are watching the play happen from 50 yards away. Of course, this doesn't really explain anything because it's a video game. This is especially evident when you go back and watch the instant replays after-the-fact, and they can clearly show that the player was NOT down before the fumble occurred.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	type	So Last Season
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6156eafa	comment	So Last Season: Happens in Real Life because of this franchise. The used games market value for Madden titles runs like clockwork as people rush to trade in last-year's release in anticipation of the new year's release. The quantity of old titles drives their price down very consistently, and a store which does not carefully police the number of titles they take in will find their shelves crowded with almost unsellable old Madden games.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_62259825	comment	One of the most infamous is 02's recreation of the Heidi Game from 1968, which is pretty much impossible. You control the Oakland Raiders, down by ten points to the New York Jets - the team that would go on to win that year's Super Bowl - with only 1:05 left on the clock. note In the real game, the Raiders were only trailing by three points, but at the time there was no way to code in any scenario other than "win the game" so the score was altered to compensate. Fortunately, you have all three timeouts. Still, you have 65 seconds to score twice and grab an onside kick. Nintendo Hard doesn't even come close to describing it.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: The "Face of the Franchise" mode in Madden 21 has a rather blatant example during the NCAA portion. No matter how well you play, even if you throw 10 TD passes per game and beat every opponent by scores which would set records in real life, the coach will decide to name your backup/rival/competitor for the position Tommy Matthews as the starter. Your options at that point are to switch positions to RB/WR or to declare early for the NFL Draft, where you are rated as a 3rd round prospect (again, no matter how well you played).
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6375f746	comment	The second related to the "Progressive Fatigue" system, which would cause players to get more tired during the season if they practiced too frequently. The AI coaches would drive all their starters to exhaust by practicing like a Drill Sergeant Nasty, which meant by December the majority of AI teams were down to their backups.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_63c6c615	comment	Dynamic Difficulty: The game adjusts the computer's skill of certain mechanics (running, passing, etc.) after every game, depending on how well or poorly the player performed in those areas. Particularly apparent in 09 and 12, though it has gotten smoother as the series has progressed.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Starting with 15, the free agent listing only shows you the top 30 or so free agents at a position by rating, or the top 100 overall at any position. If a player below that threshold gets cut, they are effectively lost to the user because no means exist to locate them and sign them.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	type	Interface Screw
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_66f763c0	comment	Interface Screw: In Madden 22, the Seahawks' stadium bonus causes the lines on their opponents' plays to inaccurately become erratically jagged or wavy on 3rd and 4th down.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_68913e61	type	Hello, [Insert Name Here]
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_68913e61	comment	Hello, [Insert Name Here]: In the iterations that allow for creating a new team or relocating one while changing the name, you are free to enter any name you wish. However, the announcers will not say the name of the team, referring to them generically as "the home team" or "the visiting team". Averted in a few cases where they recorded commentary for a selection of fictional team nicknames (such as "Sharks" or "Rhinos"), which would then be called as appropriate should you name your created team accordingly. The stock logos you could select from do hint at what names might be recognized. Created players may be called by their jersey number, their position, or their last name if it's common (Smith, Johnson, etc.) or commentary exists for that name. (For example, if you create a player named "John Brady", the announcers may actually say "Brady" since they have commentary recorded for Tom Brady.)
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: Poor, poor Bob Sanders. After several years of season-ending injuries in Real Life, the Colts safety and former Defensive Player of the Year was given a "Durability" rating in the 40s. When he appeared in the Madden 11 demo, it was rare for him to finish the game even with quarters shortened to two minutes. This can be the case for the randomly generated players in the in-game draft classes. Unfortunately, unlike real life where NFL teams get full injury histories on incoming college players, this rating is hidden in many iterations of the game. As such, the college stud you think you just drafted may be massively injury prone.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6b261d5e	type	Artistic License – Statistics
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6b261d5e	comment	Crossing over with Artistic License – Statistics, players are typically unrealistically productive. Since Madden is meant to be played with 5-7 minute quarters (rather than 15 as in real-life), this means that gamers are running between 50-70% as many plays as a real NFL contest. Yet many expect to produce as many points or exciting moments, while somehow maintaining realistic results on a per-play basis. This is mathematically impossible. EA chooses the former, heavily slanting the game in favor of the offense.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Every year when the Madden ratings are released, expect at least one real NFL player to publicly gripe about their ratings. This was even mocked in old commercials. Sometimes it can get downright insulting. Take DeMarcus Ware, who showed up in Madden 08 with a single-digit "Intelligence" rating on a 0-99 scale. On the flip side, when a player is awarded a 99 Overall Rating, EA Sports presents them a "99 Club" plaque in person. In 2023, Dallas Cowboys guard Zack Martin referenced his 99 Overall rating (announced that same day) when he demanded a new contract from the Cowboys and threatened to hold out of training camp.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License – Military: In Longshot, Devin Wade convinces the TV show following him to do an episode with his old Army unit at a base in "Dubai." There are no US military bases in Dubai, and the only base in the UAE at all is an Air Force installation.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	So you picked the game up with only a cursory knowledge of football? I hope you like seeing the other team merrily intercept your passes and carry them for touchdowns with no help from the game on how to stop them.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_71efe088	comment	Starting with the iterations in the late '10s, many players have complained that the star QB of their undefeated team who set multiple NFL single-season records would lose out on awards like league MVP to players with far lesser performances. In an attempt to discourage AI abuse, it seems that the game penalizes these players for their unrealistically good performances. Doing realistically well is fine, but don't do too well.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	type	What the Hell, Player?
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	comment	What the Hell, Player?: Trading or releasing an "NFL Icon" or a "Locker Room Leader" will cause team morale to drop dramatically and can negatively impact fan attendance. Players are not above asking for their own ways out; some will even call you out in the paper for it.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: A somewhat unusual case with John Madden himself. Madden did much more than simply lend his name to the series, in fact, the game was not initially conceived as a realistic football simulation at all. Madden refused to put his name on it until this became the case. The franchise as it exists is very much his concept instead of the original developers', so it's fitting that it's named after him.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_75eb8771	type	Mad Libs Dialogue
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_75eb8771	comment	Mad Libs Dialogue: The in-game commentary. It was painfully obvious in the earlier generations of the game, where drastic changes in tone and inflection were common, for example: "The GIANTS have the ball First and TEN from the TWENTY yard-line." As the years have gone on and technology has progressed (allowing storage of more recorded lines), this has become much more seamless. The commentary huge array of options and can handle not only unrealistic scenarios, but also provide team- and player-specific storylines over the course of a season. (Examples include historical tidbits about the '72 Dolphins or '07 Patriots if a team is undefeated deep into the regular season or they may mention the real-life holder of a record if a player is close to breaking it.) They will even condemn overly violent tackles and string together enough clichés that it's now a remarkable simulation of the real thing.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_7deb3fb1	comment	Crutch Character: Usually, there will be a few players who, for whatever reason (age, injury concerns, off-the-field concerns,) were not signed by a team in Real Life but are available in Madden as free agents in franchise mode. Usually these players still have relatively high overalls (80+) compared to those you can typically find as free agents in-season in franchise mode, so signing them will give your team an extra boost. However, if the player is older he may retire after only 1 season or, if not, will see his physical stats deteriorate as he ages. If he is oft-injured, he may not play many games for you before getting hurt. This was much more common in the late-90s/early 2000s Madden games as they lacked the ability to receive roster updates via the internet. More recent games (from 06 onward) will receive roster updates throughout the year to clear out players like this, but it still happens occasionally.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_7ea510b4	comment	Annual Title: Although John Madden Football began as a PC game in 1988, it wasn't until the 1990 Sega Genesis version that it became an annual series. Specifically with John Madden Football '92 on the Genesis console, which was the first game with the year on the title. Since then, it has been an annual title without pause.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_80360df0	comment	Dark Horse Victory: Naturally, it is possible for a skilled player to guide a team with no realistic chance of winning the Super Bowl in real life to the title in-game. If you win a Super Bowl as the Cleveland Browns in the games from late 2010s to early 2020s (during which the Browns had one of the worst stretches in NFL history), the in-game commentary brings this up. In a meta example, EA and ESPN hosted a tournament to see which NFL player would grace the Madden 2012 cover. The best player from each team was chosen for the bracket, and the fans voted each round. Such big names as Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Hines Ward, and Drew Brees fell by the wayside. The controversial Michael Vick made the finals, but he lost to... Peyton Hillis of the Cleveland Browns. Making him only the second Madden cover boy from a team that didn't make the playoffs the previous year. (The first? Vince Young, who had just won Rookie of the Year the previous year.) To be fair, many fans admitted to voting for players they didn't like, so that their guy would avoid the Madden Curse.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	The manual (prior to 06) also doesn't say how to scramble anywhere, instead phrasing the ability as "toggle on/off WR icons". When written in that way, it sounds like they just mean turn off the icons underneath your receivers.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b	type	Random Number God
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b	comment	In Franchise Mode, if your team wins three Super Bowls in a row (unprecedented in reality), your head coach will retire and you'll be forced to promote an assistant coach or hire a free agent, both options likely resulting in a lesser coach in terms of ratings. The only other reason a coach will retire is due to age (with the odds increasing the older he gets and a RNG roll at the start of the offseason determining it), but a Super Bowl three-peat will ensure this.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: Most versions (prior to 13, which removed the feature due to legal issues, but interestingly including the seventh-generation release of 25) allow you to import rookies from the corresponding NCAA Football title. Madden 09 lets you import plays from that year's NFL Head Coach title. Having a Madden 06 save file on PS2/Xbox would allow one to unlock the "Madden Challenge Bus" in Burnout Revenge. (The 360 version simply makes you watch a Madden 06 trailer.)
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	type	Character Customization
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	comment	Character Customization: Prior to starting up Franchise Mode, you are free to edit the existing players and rosters to your liking. Ever since 95, you can create your own custom players or add your favorite players that were left out of the game for one reason or another while editing their name, appearance, ratings, and college. 06 introduces "Superstar Mode", devoted specifically to that custom player's career.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8d4fcaa5	type	Self-Imposed Challenge
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8d4fcaa5	comment	In an Inversion, the player, by default, gets to see things from 20 or 30 feet above the action, allowing a much wider field of view than what a player at field level gets to see. Some players, as a form of Self-Imposed Challenge, will switch to a first-person view of the player they are manually controlling, similar to how it would be in real life. It is notably much more challenging.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: Long Snappers in general. In the real NFL, long-snapping (for field goals and punts) is considered so specialized that there are many players who spend their entire careers doing nothing else — they don't get paid all that well, but coaches recognize them as incredibly valuable players, and a long snapper getting hurt is a coach's worst nightmare. In Madden, every snap is the same, whether it's taken on offense or on a punt, so a team's starting center handles long snapping duties with absolutely no drama (again, in the real world centers don't get within a mile of long snapping). This means that long snappers are completely superfluous, and they are generally so bad in every other stat that they are immediately cut by the vast majority of teams, and nearly all will be out of the league by season 2 or 3. For 18, film director Rawson Marshall Thurber (whose credits include DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, We're the Millers, and Skyscraper) won a charity auction to be added into the game as a player. He is the Combine QB in the Longshot mode and a free agent rookie QB in franchise mode. With an initial rating of 56, he's five points lower than any other QB in the game. However, that hasn't stopped people from signing him and trying to develop him into a star. Youtuber RBT even made a video where his Thurber-led team won multiple Super Bowls.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_92272062	comment	Randomly Generated Loot: The in-game draft classes are made up of randomly generated players to add to your team. Everything from their names to their height/weight to their attributes are randomly created. They qualify as "loot" in the sense that they are valuable resources to add to your team.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: There's been good amount over the history of the franchise. A few particular examples: The QB Kneel (the "Victory Formation") has two running backs stand next to the QB so that in the event he fumbles, they can quickly dive on the ball and retain possession. However, the AI gives these guys blocking assignments, so that when the ball is snapped, they quickly run to the sides to block edge rushers. That's right: On a play where their entire role is to stand still, the AI still goofs it up. In the PS2/Xbox era (roughly 01 to 06), AI controlled teams in Franchise Mode would hold on to players like they were made of diamond-encrusted gold, and free agency would mean slim pickings all around. They apparently overcompensated in the next generation because, starting with 07's Franchise Mode, there exists a phenomenon that can only be called "Roster Musical Chairs". This has continued to swing back and forth between the extremes in the iterations since, EA having apparently never figured out how to make it realistic. Signing free agents in Franchise Mode is chock full of AI stupidity as well. For example, you are given the option to re-sign soon-to-be free agents from your own team before they hit full fledged free agency. One option for keeping them is to use the "Franchise Tag," which prevents the player from reaching free agency by forcing a 1-year, fully guaranteed contract onto him (which is equal to the average salary of the top 5 players at that position or 120% of the player's previous years salary, whichever is higher.) It is actually possible to get the player to agree to a 1 year contract for significantly less money than the Franchise Tag would be worth, something a player worth tagging in real life would NEVER agree to. (They would much rather have the fully guaranteed franchise tag contract or the massive amount of guaranteed money they'd get for signing a long-term deal with a new team.) The newspaper feature present from 05 to 08 had predictions for the next game. However, who is picked to win seemed to be pretty much random. It would usually be the home team, no matter who they were playing. It would occasionally make hilarious claims like describing a team that is still undefeated 3/4 of the way through the season as being "in shambles". The in-game NFL Draft has historically only allowed limited (and often impractical) means of evaluating potential draftees. As such, the player can ask the AI for advice on which players to draft. Occasionally, the advice can result in a gem, but most of the time, the AI will recommend a punter or kicker. Even in the first round, and even if the team already has the best punter and kicker in the league. (The reason for this seems to be that the computer advises you to take the highest rated player available, regardless of position. Since kicker and punter prospects with ratings in the 80+ range last longer in the draft that similarly rated players at other positions, the odds are good that unless you're picking in the top 5-10 picks of the first round, a kicker/punter will be the highest rated player available.) The AI for the computer controlled teams is equally inept at drafting. A common occurrence is that a team will take a highly touted QB prospect in the first round because it is seen as a need. However, even the highest rated rookie QBs tend to be below league average and require careful development to improve. Naturally, the rookie QB performs poorly, doesn't get much rating progression... and the position is still seen as a need in the next draft, where the CPU takes another QB prospect and the process repeats itself. It isn't uncommon in enthusiast forums to see screenshots where a CPU has five first-round QBs on its roster with none of them progressing. This can happen with other positions as well, but tends to be less drastic. In several of the PS2/Xbox-era games and the 2014 mobile game, if the AI calls a QB kneel down, the player can respond by calling a field goal block. The AI will then (often, but not always) call an audible to a pass play. This can backfire on them if the receiver drops the ball, or catches it out of bounds. If this happens, the player will save a timeout or a chunk of time that would have otherwise been wasted, since an incomplete pass stops the clock. Be careful, though, since if the AI's receiver catches the pass they will likely score a touchdown. Worth trying if the AI can run out the clock or you are losing by only 1 point (since a touchdown would put the AI up by 8, which is still one possession.) In 13, a bug in the AI's play selection leads to teams making brainlock decisions in crunch time. More than one AI team has driven down the field in the final seconds, only to run the ball up the middle on the final play rather than kick the game-winning field goal or throw a Hail Mary. 22 has an "Assistant GM" in franchise mode who will ping you with roster management "advice". Most of it is outright terrible, such as releasing your league MVP starting QB simply because his contract only has one year left, performance be damned. Worse, moves can be made directly from the Assistant GM screen with the cursor defaulting to "Yes", so an accidental click can ruin your team (or at least send you scrambling back to your last save). It returns in 23 with some additional features, such as recommending that you bench certain poorly performing players. This wouldn't be too bad, except that what qualifies as "poorly performing" may include your elite starting QB in the midst of an MVP season just because the team suffered its first loss. Once again, the cursor defaults to agreeing with the Assistant GM, which can create a multitude of issues within your franchise from benching a star player. In 23, AI controlled teams in franchise mode will sometimes refuse to pay their elite quarterbacks (Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, etc., who typically get long-term deals in the $300+ million range) and allow them to hit free agency... where other teams will also balk at that price and not sign them, all while the player doesn't budge on his desired compensation. Apparently, in most cases, it is because a deal of that magnitude would put the team over the salary cap. In real life, other players would be released or have their contracts adjusted to fit the quarterback's deal. The fact that all of this happens really kills any realism in franchise mode. After a few seasons, the very best quarterbacks will sit on the free agency list (unless the human player signs them) while far lesser quarterback start throughout the league.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_9446f847	comment	Death or Glory Attack: Patrick Mahomes' and Josh Allen's "Bazooka" ability. It raises the throwing distance to nearly the length of the field, but even the fastest player in the game (who at the time was conveniently on Mahomes' team) still takes several seconds to run that far. It will either be a moon shot for a touchdown or a massive sack.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Changes to the functions of certain buttons are common year-to-year. A particularly prominent example happened when going from 05 to 06 on the PS2. R1 was "juke right" and L1 was "juke left" in 05, but these were moved to the right stick for 06. Come 07, this change stuck and even removed the option of reassigning the function in the settings, forcing players to adapt. The controls for audibles and hot routes have been reassigned several times throughout the years. This is particularly painful, as players may need to hustle through several of them prior to the snap. Madden 21 replaced the "precision modifier," a button used to aggressively juke defenders with a dedicated Trash Talk button. This led more than one player to attempt a move but instead insult the opposing player and immediately get rocked for a fumble.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Not Madden itself, but it caused this to occur with any other pro football video games after EA landed the NFL's exclusive license. Madden's various competitors, especially the 2K series, were left scrambling to make up new leagues, new teams, and fill them with players. 2K's last gasp came with All-Pro Football 2K8 as a Spiritual Successor, featuring the fictional "All-Pro League" (or APL). Since EA's exclusivity deal only covered active players, Visual Concepts instead secured the rights to over 240 retired football players to fill its rosters with. However, it still wasn't enough to compete with the Madden juggernaut.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The mode features motion-capture for the cutscenes, but any screen footage (TV shows, including the fictional segments of the real-world Good Morning Football talk show recorded for the game, and some characters' cell phones in video call) are shot fully in live action.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: The "Madden Moments" feature in various iterations (and its spiritual successor in Ultimate Team solos) challenges you to replicate some of the greatest feats in football history. Of course, the reason they were memorable in the first place is because they were so ridiculously improbable. Some of the more notable examples: One of the most infamous is 02's recreation of the Heidi Game from 1968, which is pretty much impossible. You control the Oakland Raiders, down by ten points to the New York Jets - the team that would go on to win that year's Super Bowl - with only 1:05 left on the clock. note In the real game, the Raiders were only trailing by three points, but at the time there was no way to code in any scenario other than "win the game" so the score was altered to compensate. Fortunately, you have all three timeouts. Still, you have 65 seconds to score twice and grab an onside kick. Nintendo Hard doesn't even come close to describing it. Also impossible is the final game in the Great Games series, which featured the Atlanta Falcons' 30 - 27 overtime win in the 1998 NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. You have to stop future Hall of Fame kicker Morten Andersen from making a rather routine 38-yard field goal. Good luck blocking it - even lowering the AI's ability to kick field goals doesn't help. Another is bringing the Indianapolis Colts back from a 31 - 17 deficit against the New Orleans Saints in 11 in a recreation of the final minutes of Super Bowl XLIV. You have the ball, 4th and goal from the 5-yard line, two timeouts and 50 seconds to work with. Have fun. (Unlike the two above entries, the Colts failed to do this in real life, making it all the more impressive if you are able to pull it off.) EA lost the ability to re-create historic teams due to a lawsuit, which means that these scenarios are now often run against the current version of the team, rather than the historic one. In situations where the real-life team has significantly declined, this actually makes it easier.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Any player who was initially rated poorly (usually because they were a rookie) who is then bumped up due to dominant real life play. Some of the more prominent specific examples are below: Richard Sherman who went from being the worst-rated player in Madden 12 to being the highest-rated (and cover athlete) in Madden 15. This can even happen over the course of a single season, as it did with Alvin Kamara. He went from a 76 rating in Madden 18 to an 88 in Madden 19 after a Rookie of the Year campaign. Another single-season example is Lamar Jackson. He went from a 76 rating at the launch of Madden 20 to a 93 by the playoffs, complete with the designation "Superstar X-Factor" after playing well enough to win MVP.note He received two particularly gigantic bumps after demolishing the previous year's Super Bowl teams, the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_9beeb7d6	comment	In the older versions, when a player was severely injured, an ambulance would come out onto the field to help them and in doing so it would clobber all the players in its path.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_9dffb45f	comment	False Camera Effects: 10 included an AFL throwback mode to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the league. One of the effects was to layer film grain and a sepia filter to mimic a TV broadcast from the 1960s.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_a7ebd729	comment	Revenue-Enhancing Devices: Starting with Madden 2010, the series has begun selling things like One-Time Stat Boosts and vintage uniforms that used to be free rewards for in-game success.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Madden 12 includes some of the staffers as Joke Characters, including women. In-gameplay, the women are completely indistinguishable from the men, unlike fellow EA franchise NHL Hockey
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_acaf9059	comment	Video Game Delegation Penalty: This is especially prominent when playing defense. On offense, under most circumstances, you control whichever player has the ball. The other players will run their routes or block as designed, with their attributes (especially "Awareness") playing into how well they do these things. On defense, however, you can take control of any player. The ones you aren't controlling can almost certainly be expected to perform worse than they would under your control. One of the most prominent examples occurs when the opposing QB rolls out of the pocket. Pursuing defenders have the option of either going for the QB (at which point the QB will try to pass the ball), or dropping back in coverage (at which point the QB will try to run with the ball). This is a desirable situation in real life for the offense, as it forces the defenders to choose and should leave one of the options open. However, in the game, if you are not controlling the closest pursuing defender, expect to see him get indecisive and hover in between, leaving both the pass and the run wide open. This can even happen with defenders who have maxed out Awareness. In Franchise Mode, you may choose to skip over offseason events such as the free agent signing period and the draft. Do so at your own risk, as the AI may decide to, for example, sign multiple expensive free agents at one position leaving you without enough cap space to fill other needs. It may draft players at positions where you already have excellent players and good depth, meaning those players won't even see the field while leaving gaping holes at other positions on your roster. It may allow a young stud to leave via free agency while re-signing an aging player with decreasing stats to a multi-year extension.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Seattle linebacker Shaquem Griffin was born with a birth defect that eventually required amputating his left hand. While his visual model reflects this, in gameplay he behaves as if he still has it.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b18aeb20	comment	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Downplayed but extant. The series started in 1988 as simply John Madden Football. John Madden Football II then came out in 1990. Starting in 1991, the game instead added the upcoming year to the title, so John Madden Football 1992. In 1993, the title was changed to Madden NFL 94, dropping the "19" from the title. 1997 saw the release of two titles - the standard Madden NFL 97 as well as Madden Football 64, which was released on the N64. Madden NFL 2000 started added the first two numbers of the year back in, which would continue until they were dropped again for Madden NFL 06. In 2013, the game was released as Madden NFL 25 instead, celebrating the series 25th anniversary. (Which leads to the question of what the 2024 version of the game will be called.)
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b3b1115f	type	My Rules Are Not Your Rules
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b3b1115f	comment	My Rules Are Not Your Rules: The AI can do things the player is prevented from doing. Most notably, they can audible in the Wildcat formation.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	comment	Another Take That! is against the Pro Bowl, the NFL's utterly meaningless all-star game. You get an achievement called "Thanks for Coming" just for playing it.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b5785433	comment	Cold Open: Possibly the first ever for a Sports Game franchise - Upon first launching Madden 15, the player will be dropped into the NFC Championship game as Cam Newton and the Panthers, with one last chance to score a TD on the Seattle Seahawks and go to the Super Bowl. When a similar scenario happened in the real NFL that year (Cam Newton's Panthers played in Seattle in the Divisional round), the Madden team included a reference to it in the loading screens. This was continued in Madden 16 and onward, with a different scenario each year.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: At the end of Homecoming. Devin continues to play for the Texans, and Colt happily continues coaching for the Bullfrogs. Even the minor characters get in on this: for example, coach Earl Cotes decides to move to Mathis to help out the Bullfrogs, and Guzman starts a fund to aid others to incorporate their business.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b798d379	type	One Stat to Rule Them All
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b798d379	comment	One Stat to Rule Them All: Although it varies by just how much it rules in the game from year to year, Speed has been the most important stat throughout the history of the series. It is common for speedy but otherwise mediocre players in real life to become elite superstars in the game itself due to the emphasis placed on speed. There are a few reasons for this: First, these "speed merchants" often block, tackle, and/or break tackles far better than their real life counterparts which eliminates their greatest weaknesses. Second, because passes are usually targeted to hit a player in the chest, it can be surprisingly difficult to run one of the most common plays in football - throw it high to the slow-but-tall receiver or tight end and let him use his size/reach to out-jump the defender to catch the pass.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: The players and coaches, obviously. 13 adds polygon versions of CBS announcers Jim Nantz and Phil Simms, along with John Madden himself. 20 introduces Superstar KO, including as coaches celebrities like Lil' Yachty and DJ Khaled, as well as Jennifer Welters, the first female coaching intern in NFL history. See also "Lethal Joke Character" below. It is a Running Gag each year that at least one player will go viral complaining about their digital representation (in 23, it was Jets WR Braxton Berrios).
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_bc331dff	type	Capcom Sequel Stagnation
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_bc331dff	comment	Capcom Sequel Stagnation: A common criticism of the series. Most iterations change very little from the previous, save for updating the rosters. The developers do try to add new modes and features, but ultimately, a game emulating a real life sport can only add so much while still being faithful.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_bd7fc87	type	Save Our Team
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_bd7fc87	comment	Save Our Team: A major subplot in Homecoming, as a result of the town being devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Because of the hurricane, the team and its infrastructure had been left in a dilapidated state thanks to poor funding. Amidst this, members of the city council are actively proposing a merger with a rival school, believing they could acquire more resources doing so.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c026716	type	Holiday Mode
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c026716	comment	Holiday Mode: The game will update throughout the year with appropriate decorations. October gives you breast cancer month ribbons and pink-wearing crowds, the holidays put Christmas lights on the scoreboard, etc. It can get a little outlandish during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, where a user-created coach will be shown wearing an all-pink business suit. More directly, both this game and NCAA Football at one point had a partnership with the Weather Channel wherein the game would simulate the actual current weather at each stadium. Madden Ultimate Team has themed sets that release around the various holidays, such as "Most Feared" players around Halloween.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: One of the issues the series has struggled with since its inception is the relationship between a quarterback's stated attributes and actual quarterback play. Over the years, specific abilities have become more discernable and differentiated (Michael Vick was faster than Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes could throw the ball farther than Chad Pennington could, etc), but the core issue is that the player always controls the quarterback, and so QB performance is fundamentally about player skill instead of the quarterback's in-game ratings. This is particularly true when it comes to the mental side of the position — Tom Brady scores incredibly highly on traits like "awareness," but that doesn't actually impact how the player controls Brady in the game, and if the player doesn't recognize defenses or make good decisions, nothing about Brady's skillset will change that. A skilled player controlling a crummy quarterback can have much better outcomes than a lesser player controlling a Hall of Famer. The series has tried various things to close this gap (the QB Vision Cone being the most prominent), but without much success.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c513249	comment	You may want to pick up a few extra controllers if you plan to play on the All-Madden difficulty, where Rubber-Band A.I. is in full effect. Have fun as poorly rated defenders intercept your elite franchise QB and 3rd string running backs bowl over your elite linebacker who has a maxed out "Tackle" rating.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the sponsors you can get for your team in Franchise Mode is the "Michael Scarn Paper Company", Michael Scarn being Michael Scott's "Marty Stu" character. The "Midway Monster" Achievement in 09 is a reference to Mutant League Football. After years upon years of complaints that it was nearly impossible to block field goals, 17 includes a mechanic to help you do this. Accomplishing it gives the achievement "The White Whale." As part of a cross-promotion with Nickelodeon to coincide with the channel's first broadcast of an NFL playoff game, EA added Sponge Bob Squarepants-inspired clothing items and a Bikini Bottom field to "The Yard" mode. Nick's second broadcast saw the addition of Rugrats- and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired items. In 22, Bo Jackson was featured in a cross-promotional marketing campaign with Nike and given the in-game ability "Bo Knows." The name references a famous Nike late 80's ad campaign. Though not explicitly mentioned, Jackson is called a "Video Game Legend" due to being wildly overpowered in the game Tecmo Bowl
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca	type	An Entrepreneur Is You
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cbfb0dca	comment	An Entrepreneur Is You: Franchise mode includes aspects of running an NFL franchise outside of the football games themselves, including roster building, signing coaches and a training staff, setting vendor prices at your stadium, and possibly even relocating the team.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Double Subverted with Awareness during the infamous "Vision Cone" era from 06 to 08. Attempting to give meaning to Awareness for QBs, EA implemented a highlighted cone extending outward from the QB's face and they could only accurately pass to receivers within that cone. QBs with higher Awareness had a bigger cone, with the very best of that era (Brady, Peyton, Favre, etc.) having cones that covered most of the field. Unfortunately, players quickly discovered that a smaller cone could be used to "look off" defenders (as in pointing the cone away from your intended target), causing defenders to shift their coverage in that direction, leaving your intended target wide open. With a little practice, the player could simply move the cone at the last second to complete easy deep passes. Players with high Awareness and thus large cones, could not be used in this way, once again reinforcing Awareness as a Dump Stat.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: To the great chagrin of the hardcore community, height and weight matter very little with regard to how well players block or shed blocks - only the ratings matter. This was shown when one player shrank an entire offensive line to 5'6", 150 lbsnote The typical offensive lineman will be at least 8" taller and at least twice that weight and they still blocked as effectively as before.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d0ea147f	type	A.I. Breaker
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d0ea147f	comment	A.I. Breaker: Quite a few offensive plays can be used infinitely and the AI will never catch on. Exactly which plays vary from year to year as the AI is tweaked, but there has yet to be an iteration of the game that doesn't include at least a few of these. For several iterations in the mid-2000s, it was possible to take manual control of defensive linemen before the snap and align/stack them in ways which break the offense's blocking AI, creating unblockable blitzes. Madden 08 attempted to Nerf this by moving these players back to their original position once you switch manual control away from them. However, players continue to find creative ways to make it happen, known in the metagaming community as "Nano-blitzing". In the iterations in the late-2000s through 11, the Wildcat formation included numerous easily abusable "Option" plays. For example, the RB could be motioned out wide, leaving only the "QB" in the backfield. However, if the play called was an option, that "QB" could pitch it to the RB out wide as if he were in the backfield with the QB, turning the play into a lightning-fast, unerringly accurate screen pass for easy yardage. These plays were removed starting with 12. Madden 18 took this to the next level with the Gun Monster playbook. This set of plays involves lining up only three offensive linemen in the center with the tackles lined up next to the wide receivers. The problem? The AI responds to this play by spreading out its front seven to cover the groups of three, resulting in an easy run up the middle every single time. (In real life, as the tackles aren't eligible receivers, the defense won't bother to cover them.) EA eventually nerfed this playbook in response. On Left or Right directed kickoff returns, the blocker closest to the sideline will simply run out of bounds as they are dropping back, then charge up the sideline ignoring the coverage team. Online players will often direct kicks to the corner of the field to bait the AI into doing this. Starting with Madden 20, EA began to add coaching adjustments to attempt to mitigate AI-breaking plays. They allow players to manually set the depth of zone coverages, whether to overplay the QB or HB on option plays, whether to attept to break on the ball for an interception or punch it out, etc.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: Used during game-winning field goal attempts to amplify the drama of the moment.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: While the Cold Open of Madden 16 puts you in control of the Steelers at 1st and goal needing a touchdown to secure victory (and heavily encouraging the player to throw to WR Antonio Brown), it is completely possible to fail to score, and the game's ending will change to reflect that.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Bill Belichick is not a member of the NFL Coaches Association, and so in every game after Madden 2002 he's been replaced in game as Patriots coach by a generic looking guy who vaguely looks like him.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Occasionally when an athlete has found himself in legal trouble, he'll get totally removed from the game until he's reinstated. This most notably happened to Michael Vicknote dogfighting arrest and prison time and Ray Ricenote domestic violence case. In Madden 20, Tyreek Hillnote domestic violence accusations has not been given a superstar ability despite the ratings justifying it, for the same reason. In Madden 22, EA deleted Jon Gruden's likeness after he resigned from the Raiders due to a history of offensive emails. Starting with 15, the free agent listing only shows you the top 30 or so free agents at a position by rating, or the top 100 overall at any position. If a player below that threshold gets cut, they are effectively lost to the user because no means exist to locate them and sign them. Colin Kaepernick's name was blanked out of the lyrics of a rap track on the Madden soundtrack, supposedly due to a misunderstanding about the rights to his likeness. After an outcry, EA apologized and added it back.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_d68c925d	comment	Related to Creator Provincialism, more popular players are often given a ratings boost regardless of whether it was deserved. In reality, Marshawn Lynch retired after an ineffectual 2018 season with the Oakland Raiders. When he signed with the Seattle Seahawks in December 2019 to much fanfare, he was added to Madden 20 with a higher rating than he had in Madden 19, despite an increase in the ratings spread and his nearly full year off. Further, aging superstars do not nearly regress as much year over year despite evidence of real-life physical decline.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dcff8307	type	Multi-Platform
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dcff8307	comment	Multi-Platform: One of the biggest multi-platform sellers of the 21st century. From 2001 to 17, it was multi-generation as well, as every Madden in that span was released for both the current consoles and at least one Daddy System.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: In the older versions, when a player was severely injured, an ambulance would come out onto the field to help them and in doing so it would clobber all the players in its path. In the more recent games, injured players will get up and hobble off the field regardless of the injury suffered. This includes knee, hip, and back injuries so severe they end the player's career.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: So you picked the game up with only a cursory knowledge of football? I hope you like seeing the other team merrily intercept your passes and carry them for touchdowns with no help from the game on how to stop them. You may want to pick up a few extra controllers if you plan to play on the All-Madden difficulty, where Rubber-Band A.I. is in full effect. Have fun as poorly rated defenders intercept your elite franchise QB and 3rd string running backs bowl over your elite linebacker who has a maxed out "Tackle" rating.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dec8bfbf	type	Trash Talk
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dec8bfbf	comment	Madden 21 replaced the "precision modifier," a button used to aggressively juke defenders with a dedicated Trash Talk button. This led more than one player to attempt a move but instead insult the opposing player and immediately get rocked for a fumble.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Previous iterations included TV-style bumpers for halftime and the quarter breaks. These showed the traditional cheesecake shots of the cheerleaders.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e170211a	type	Borrowing from the Sister Series
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e170211a	comment	Borrowing from the Sister Series: Following its success in EA sister series FIFA Soccer, the divisive, microtransaction-loaded "Ultimate Team" was brought over to Madden in 11.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License – Sports: Averted initially by John Madden himself. He refused to put his name on the game (then a protoype featuring 6-9 players on the field due to technical limitations) until game hardware advanced enough to have the correct number of players on the field per team (11). Given that the game is licensed by the NFL and intended in every way to be a simulation of real-life football, it generally does a good job of avoiding this trope, at least for the football games themselves. Franchise mode, however, deviates significantly from real-life NFL rules. Listing every example would require its own page, but some particularly notable ones include: a 53-man roster limit at all times (NFL teams have a 90 man roster limit in the offseason), no practice squads (a 10 man group of players who can practice with the team but is barred from participating in the games unless called up to the active roster first) until 17, no customization of player or coach contracts (all contracts are back-loaded, guaranteed money is evenly spread throughout, there are no incentives, etc.), the coaching staff is generally limited to the head coach and coordinators only, etc. etc. Crossing over with Artistic License – Statistics, players are typically unrealistically productive. Since Madden is meant to be played with 5-7 minute quarters (rather than 15 as in real-life), this means that gamers are running between 50-70% as many plays as a real NFL contest. Yet many expect to produce as many points or exciting moments, while somehow maintaining realistic results on a per-play basis. This is mathematically impossible. EA chooses the former, heavily slanting the game in favor of the offense. If two teams are tied for a playoff berth at the end of the season, Madden can on occasion screw up the tiebreaker rules and award the playoff berth to the wrong team. It's right a vast majority of the time, but more than one player has Rage Quit their online franchise when they got screwed this way. To a degree, this is forgivable as it is a rare scenario and the NFL rules for breaking ties are complicated, with no fewer than 12 criteria for doing so. (#2 on the Conference tiebreak side is where Madden usually screws up, going to #3 even if one team has the head-to-head advantage over the other two.) However, it isn't completely consistent between different iterations of Madden either, so you never know what will happen if your team ends the season tied with another team. Madden has never implemented the Fair Catch Kick rule, which allows a team that makes a fair catch to attempt an uncontested field goal from that spot. Admittedly, it's a rarely invoked rule, so the developers may not have thought it necessary; given John Madden's personal like of the rule, however, it may have been a nice inclusion.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: There are almost always some from year to year that try to correct imbalance issues from the previous years. To note a few prominent examples: The Wildcat formation was nerfed in 12 by removing the easily-abusable option plays from it. The QB Vision Cone, added for 06, was an attempt at a nerf, but backfired spectacularly. The tiny vision cone for Quarterbacks with a low "Awareness" could actually be used to "look off" defenders, causing them to adjust their coverage to the wrong receiver. Elite Quarterbacks with high Awareness, such as Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, aren't able to do this. (The cone was removed for the seventh-generation release of Madden 09.) A number of near-game breaker level plays have gone from abused to impractical over the years. One example was the nigh-unstoppable "play action" plays in the early-mid 2000s. Safeties, even those with maxed out awareness, would almost always bite on the play fake. This left the receiver one-on-one with the cornerback deep down the field. Racking up NFL records in points and passing yards, even on higher difficulty settings, was not unheard of when abusing this play. The effectiveness of these plays has been significantly toned down over the years, while those identified as still game-breaking frequently get nerfed via in-season patches. Starting with 08, to stop players from manually breaking the AI to create unblockable blitzes, defenders will automatically return to their designated spot in the formation if the player moves them and then switches control to another defender pre-snap. Quarterbacks are deliberately slowed down behind the line of scrimmage (below what their ratings would otherwise allow for) to improve the effectiveness of pass rushers, and to avoid unrealistically productive scrambling. In Madden 20, this is negated by the superstar ability "Escape Artist." In Madden 23 they in turn Nerfed "Escape Artist" by elevating it to an X-factor ability which must be earned, and giving it to one player - Kyler Murray.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_ee30ce4b	comment	Popularity Power: Related to Creator Provincialism, more popular players are often given a ratings boost regardless of whether it was deserved. In reality, Marshawn Lynch retired after an ineffectual 2018 season with the Oakland Raiders. When he signed with the Seattle Seahawks in December 2019 to much fanfare, he was added to Madden 20 with a higher rating than he had in Madden 19, despite an increase in the ratings spread and his nearly full year off. Further, aging superstars do not nearly regress as much year over year despite evidence of real-life physical decline. Colin Kaepernick, after nearly four years as a free agent quarterback black-balled by the league for his once controversial protest of kneeling during the national anthem, was added back to the game in Madden 21 as a free agent. With an overall rating of 81, he was the highest rated free agent QB and better than half the starting quarterbacks in the league. While he was once a high-performing player, his final year in the league was rather mediocre and his four-year absence likely should have resulted in a lower rating, but his popularity with the fanbase ensured that it was raised. On the flip side, unpopular players can be held back, Inverting the trope. Tyreek Hill never received any special abilities in Madden 20 due to his involvement in ugly domestic abuse incidents, while Myles Garrett had his removed after a violent on-field fight. Once technological advances made it possible, EA has given large temporary rating bumps to players who are in the news. Superstar Luke Kuechly was pushed to a 99 Overall after he emotionally announced his retirement, and Kicker Justin Tucker was bumped to 99 (a 12 point jump) after breaking the NFL record for longest field goal.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_f11e5ede	comment	Miracle Rally: Naturally, given that the game is a simulation of a real life sport in which these happen all the time. The game even tracks "4th Quarter Comebacks" as a stat for quarterbacks and "Game Winning Kicks" as a stat for kickers in relation to this trope. Crosses over (sometimes painfully so) with Rubber-Band A.I. when computer opponents suddenly become unstoppable juggernauts in order to make one of these happen against you.
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Madden NFL (Video Game) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: An enormous amount, which seems to grow by the year. To note some prominent examples: "Patrick Chewing" is available as a draftable rookie in Madden 10; basketball player Patrick Ewing appears in Snickers commercials with that name, and Snickers is a major advertiser in the 10 edition. 11 takes it even further by having product placement in their achievements. Leon Sandcastle was Deion Sanders' alter ego in a Super Bowl Special ad for the 2013 Super Bowl. Within a month, he had been added to Ultimate Team as a playable character. Owner mode takes this further. Instead of setting the price of "hats" at the stadium gift shop, the user sets the price of "New Era 59Fifty Fitted hats." Instead of "T-Shirts", they are "Nike Dri-Fit T-Shirts" and so on.
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