If all you're looking for is some exhibition matches with the boys, consider that a ringing endorsement. As always the higher strategies of football academia is put on the backburner you can easily make due by calling the plays the game suggests, paying no attention to the geometry of a Cover 2. The players also seem to cut and change direction in a twitchier, more sensitive way, which took me some time to internalize. The hitchiness on the line of scrimmage is replaced with a smoother sense of chaos, with tackles dovetailing into gang tackles and back into broken tackles. The game looks good and it ran well on my laptop, I'll give 'em that.

A considerable amount of emphasis is put on 'real player motion'-a fancy way of saying the models are better animated-which EA claims better replicates the product on TV. However, the window dressing this time out seems particularly sparse. It's a particularly fun year to mess around with the sim, given all the intriguing new quarterbacks entering the league.Īs is customary, Madden 19 is stockpiled with a highly marketable list of new content, which is primed specifically for that midway point during EA's E3 press conference every year. For more on all that, head to our performance impressions.

We're a little disappointed that Madden 19 doesn't have remappable controls, but aside from that, we've found that it runs well, and there are lots of graphics and gameplay options.

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