![]() My pitch here is simple: Make it be a quarterback battle you go through in training camp. I’m not suggesting it be as hard as actually making it as an NFL QB - we all remember how much folks hated the vision cone - but there’s a middle ground that can make the QB1 mode an absolute blast. Also, you find a new team and, once again, just go through the same motions of preseason and regular season action. You can get cut if you struggle, which gives an added dimension to the story mode, but given that I hadn’t played a football game in a few years and it was as easy as it was, you would seem to have to really struggle to make that a reality. I still won the starting job as a 62 overall by the end of preseason, however, somehow taking it from Flacco without so much as an interaction. I was a 59 overall, which made for a better challenge, as I would sometimes just miss throws because my guy wasn’t good. I went through this game mode a second time, purposely tanking the semifinal game and my Combine performance, where I went 10-for-24, and was picked in the seventh round (again by the Broncos). That’s not just an issue as a first-round pick, either. They need to go deeper into that once you get to the NFL, not just some vague texts from your coach about the 53-man roster and then, poof, you’re the starter if you weren’t a disaster in the preseason. If the game mode is called “QB1,” there should probably be some kind of quarterback battle element to it. There’s something to be said about getting to just play the games, but there’s a way to balance getting the player into games and actually having to do something to improve beyond just that. You do five reps in practice each week, send some text messages, and then play in the game. For someone whose most recent interaction with a career mode is NBA 2K19, there’s a stark contrast between how much you do off the court there (which I felt was too much non-gameplay stuff), and how in Madden NFL 20, there is absolutely nothing. After a solid preseason, I beat out Joe Flacco for the starter job.īy Week 7, I was an 88 overall, thus highlighting the main issue with the career mode, which is that it’s just too easy and simple. Still, I was selected in the late first round by the Broncos and entered the league right around an 80 overall (which seemed a bit high). ![]() ![]() In my first run, I won the title (with Miami over Texas Tech, which is an objectively hilarious title game scenario) and went 17-for-24 at the Combine in receivers catching the ball in the designated zone - sometimes they bobble the ball through the zone and you get counted as a miss when they complete it outside, which is infuriating. Now, how you fare in those playoff two games, plus a brief run-through throwing the route tree at the NFL Combine, will define where you get selected in the draft. ![]() Having said that, it’s simply not the same - it’s still run on the Madden engine, where the gameplay has always been a bit different than the NCAA games. Now, we have a taste of it back, and it’s pretty cool to get to play with college teams again. Instead of, you know, allowing players to be paid for that, the NCAA refused to let EA Sports make the game and, as such, we’ve been without it for six years. We all miss the NCAA Football franchise, which ended with the ’14 edition after the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit resulted in it being deemed illegal not to pay the players for using their likeness. He gets hurt and you end up thrust into the starting role for the playoff, beginning with the semifinal.īefore we get into where the career mode falls flat, I’ll echo what just about everyone else has said, which is it’s great to see college football back in a video game. The basis of the story mode is that you are a highly-recruited quarterback out of high school, but then the top QB in the country joins your recruiting class as well, causing you to lose the starting job and sit for four years after you choose not to transfer. In the all-new QB1: Face of the Franchise mode, you get to play in up to two College Football Playoff games with one of ten team options. Madden NFL 20, this year’s edition of the only licensed football video game in existence, earned lots of excitement when EA revealed that it would bring college teams back to virtual football.
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