EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 27

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The game was unplayable. I tried multiple "fixes" yet would still crash on menu. From redownloading drivers to capping frames . Why a game has this many PC problems is on the devs " let's recycle a product but this time make it unplayable." I've been a loyal madden fan for years and was excited to play a new one. Would play in the future if they fix the compatibility but I can't recommend in its current state.

I started playing Madden back around 2019 and I have honestly really enjoyed it. It has become one of my most played series, and I spend all that time in Franchise. That said, this year is the worst experience I have had in this game, and I think I might just go back to older ones. It seems Offensive lineman aren't blocking whatsoever. This has been a thing for a long time in Madden, but it feels worse in this game. Free Agency is broken. You cannot sign the top free agents even if you throw the entire bag at them. George Pickens is regularly a free agent, and each time I throw the max at him and he signs with someone else. It doesn't matter which team I am playing as. You have to search out retirements. I can no longer see who on my team retired from the main screen immediately. I have to go searching in submenus to find the transactions for the entire league, just to see who retired that year. Offense feels terrible this year. Idk what it is, maybe it's the stupid NBA 2K "greening a catch" thing but it seems if you can get the ball out, which seems to be rare because protection doesn't block, the ball is getting dropped most of the time. I noticed this last year and it started to wear on me with the game, but this year it's worse and the major change is the green meter. They added heavy snow and heavy rain last year and then removed it this year. I like that they added storms can come and go in a game, but it's only ever light flurries and a drizzle. I want white out conditions. You touted that as a new feature last year and already removed it? My final major complaint, is that the indie developers over at Electronic Arts are so bad at coding their game, that they had to remove the ability to see players when you look at their stats screen. You have to go to edit the player to even see what they look like in the game. Thank you for making menus load faster, but to do so, you removed a feature, rather than fixing the issue. Maybe I am asking too much from this small indie company with five developers working on this game, but it has gotten so bad. Will I buy next years? Man, I don't even know anymore. Odds are yes? But that said, if its like this years, probably not until its on sale. This is typically my comfort game, the game I play to wind down, but I have not enjoyed the time I have put into 27.