Looking for the arcade football successor to NFL Blitz? You can keep looking. With Madden Arcade, EA has attempted to create chocolate-chip cookies using the ingredients for a turkey dinner. As a result, it never really has the flavor of an arcade game. Instead it looks and plays like what it is: a stripped-down version of Madden 10.
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I suppose this game earned a 58 purely out of necessity. It’s unfortunate that words are required to properly insult it’s existence. Let me have some flair! Some semi-decent voice work or some custom animations could spice it up. Instead we get fireworks in the endzone. Lame!
I like playing the game head to head with friends. EAsports should add some DLC like options to have a season mode, custom uniforms, stats, player trades, etc. It is in fact a stripped down version of Madden but that wouldnt be so bad if they hadnt stripped it down so much.
The computer tends to either blitz the MLB or have him cover the RB. So if you dont want to challenge yourself you can either do a RB dump pass or QB bootleg every single play and get gains. Kind of lame there.