Review: Madden NFL 20 (PlayStation 4)
Superstars change the game in Madden NFL 20. Become the Face of the Franchise and control your NFL superstar journey starting in the College Football Playoff, compete against or play with friends online or side by side, take your team from pre-season to Super Bowl champions, and be at the center of every play so you can achieve gridiron greatness.
Pros:
- Realistic graphics.
- 43.02gn download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Imports settings from previous games (if applicable).
- Opening match-Pro Bowl with light tutorials.
- American Football gameplay.
- Four game modes-Ultimate team, Exhibition, Franchise and Face of the franchise.
- Accessibility options-menu narration, subtitles, and color blindness mode.
- CPU skill sliders to adjust every part of how they play and how efficient they are.
- Player skill sliders-as above but these focus more on your abilities and success rate.
- Game options-playbook selection, clock speed, accelerated clock, coin toss choice, injuries, fatigue, quarter length, etc.
- Difficulties-Rookie, Pro, All-Pro and all Madden.
- Game style-Arcade, simulation or competitive.
- Full commentary team.
- Exhibition mode-play now, online head to head, Pro bowl, skills trainer and practice.
- Franchise-pick a team and play through a full season.
- Franchise save options-local (offline) and cloud (online) this allows quicker simulations and accessibility.
- The face of the franchise-story mode. I don’t want to give too much away.
- Ultimate team-online mode where you earn/buy card packs and create teams set playbooks and play opponents both on and offline. Earn EXP and level up your team for rewards, do challenges and earn more rewards. Supports co-op mode.
- Easy clear to read/navigate playbooks on the fly.
- Hud is clean.
- On-screen prompts and icons all help new and old players alike.
- Touchdown celebration control.
- X-factors-each highly-rated player will have a set of unique traits to elevate them.
- Share/download files with other players and these are typically roster changes.
- Same atmosphere and play style as last year.
- Familiar controls.
- So much fun to play.
- Great control of the player with jukes, shimmies, trucking and so much more.
Cons:
- Takes a while to load as it checks the roster and online status.
- Only one control layout.
- Slow menu transitions.
- Commentary can get repetitive or out of sync.
- A lot to take in initially especially in an ultimate team with a lot of splash screens and text.
- Little difference overall.
- Never really notice the x-factor stuff.
- Few weird AI “judgment” calls.
- A couple of robot looking, character models.
