Title: Getting worse with age
Review: For whatever reason, EA elected to strip out features this year. Most notably, you can no longer use custom play books with your franchise. For some reason, you can still make a custom playbook -- I did, spending several hours putting together plays -- but you can't actually use it, except in a practice match. This obviously takes away from the strategy element of the game. In fact, Madden has stripped out most of the strategy, focusing instead on the bells-and-whistles like creating fictional players and choosing their parents' DNA. The coaching aspect of the game is now non-existent... it's become an FPS for sports fans.
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