NEED DEFENSIVE PLAYMAKER BACK!!!

I would like to see inserts of big plays during my game of my friends losing or winning on a last second play. This can be shown during a timeout, after a Td or Fg or while picking plays so that it does not interupt the game. If thats asking to much, then at least show scores of everyone on my friend list while I am playing and give me a verbal update. Please bring back the ambulance with the to men getting out and the injured player some how jumping on the stretcher. LOL.. ON A SEIOUS NOTE I would also like for the L2 button( I thinks thats correct) to only be used for SWATTING the ball. Let me explain... Not often do I try to swat the ball, but sometimes when I do my cb tries to intercept the ball but does not jump, just sticks his hands up where as if he would have swatted the pass would have been knocked down, but instead I miss the pick wr catches the ball and scores because I am to far out of position to make a paly. If EA says the button is to SWAT the ball down, then let it be used for that ALL THE TIME. If I am 50 yards away I want to be able to swat, now will I hit the ball NO, but the point is the button will be used to do what it was set to do and not other things.

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GentillyBoyz (EA.com)

Im gonna try and be respectful. 1) Fixing the facemasks, or more specifically, the rb robots. Because, the visors dont fit the facemask. I dont see how this can be overlooked.

2) Editing the players accessories, such as gloves, shoes, elbow pads, etc. The option should be there to make any of these ANY color we choose. If we want to make Ray lewis' wristbands PINK we could. (not that we'd do that). But the reason for this is because, teams dont just have 1 team color. For the broncos its ORANGE and BLUE. And so instead of making the team color just 1 color (blue), it should be our choice. Some broncos wear orange gloves with their blue jerseys, or when portis was with the team he wore bright orange shoes with the jersey. THIS WOULD BE AWESOME!!! Simplicity is always the best way to go.

3) And finally, Crowd Noise- I mean, this is the NFL! Like in NCAA the screen should SHAKE, we should hear BELLS, WHISTLES, Paper floating around in the air, we should see FLAGS WAIVING, something to really make the crowd a HUGE factor. The 12th Man!!!

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daspydaNme (EA.com)

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daspydaNme (EA.com)

Ok this is my wishlist for next year's madden.

1. Forget about improving controls or at least put them on the back burner, they are spectacular and dont need much work.

2. Focus on the franchise mode in the current gen game versions and duplicate that in any way possible for the 360.(PLEASE THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL)

2a. this includes owner mode, training camp, hiring and firing coaches, FANTASY DRAFTS, restriced FA, rookie scouting, weekly newspaper clippings, player morale, players randomly holding out of training camp to play basketball(hillarious) and anything else possible. The year the texans came into the league there was an expansion option in the offseason, now that would be a great re-addition.

3. Same version that had the expansion option allowed historical players to be dropped into the free agent pool once their madden card had been acquired but only if the user desired it. Please make this an easy to toggle option not a guarenteed fact.

4. Re read 2 and 2a and try doubly hard to get these into the game. Franchise mode was/is the greatest part of the current game gen giving the game at least 10X more replay value.

Thanks

Bring back custom playbooks for franchise mode. There is no reason for them not to be in there.

1. Edit Player Positions and all other aspects
2. Owner Mode
3. Coach Mode (Why have a separate game?)
4. Daily Roster Updates through ESPN or NFL.com
5. Practice Squad
6. PUP List
7. NFL Europe (For Practice Squad and additional fun)
8. Higher Roster Limit for Offseason and Practice Squads (Trim down until deadline)
9. Inside the NFL Coverage
10. Pregame, Halftime, and Postgame Shows
11. Pregame, halftime, and Postgame Show Stats and Video Highlights
12. Monday Night Football
13. NFL Films Coverage
14. Use ESPN, FOX, CBS, NBC, & ABC TV Networks for coverage on all games(Also put in individual songs for each network. Nothing better than Fox NFL Sunday)
15. Use actual announcers from each network (Bob Costas, Madden of course, Al Michaels, Theisman, etc...Not just 2)
16. Media Coverage in Pregame, Postgame and Halftime, In the lockerroom
17. Improved Challenge the call options (I've lost so many calls that should have been overruled)
18. Player Emotions, trash talking
19. Sideline Camera, Bench Player Perspective
20. Sideline TV Network Coverage (Interviews with Players, Coaches, Fans, and injury reports)
21. More realistic Draft Picks
22. Rookie Busts
23. Rookies can be good or bad no matter what order drafted
24. Player Bios and Profiles
25. Fantasy Draft (Bring it back)
26. Complete connection to NCAA Football (Scouting, Draft, etc...)
27. Online Situations (Play head to head, Start off with scenario, whoever doesn't complete loses, if both complete, move on to harder situation until there's a loser)
28. Bring back Quarterback Club (Still around)
29. Fantasy Football on Madden (Not Fantasy Draft, like regular fantasy football, but in madden)
30. Player Celebrations (TO, Chad Johnson, Steve Smith)
31. Inside the Huddle cameras and Sounds
32. Put player names in historic Rosters (Walter Payton and others deserve respect)
33. Superbowl and Probowl Specials
34. Probowl Voting
35. Comedy Pregame and Halftime Specials (Jimmy Kimmel)
36. Player Problems/Issues (Same in NCAA Football, only at NFL Level, cause for benching, TO for example)
37. During game go to other games for updates(video), End of Game go to other close games (last second field goal or hail mary)
38. Sounds of the Game (Players, Trash Talking, Comments)
39. Top Ten Plays
40. Plays of the Season, etc...
41. Video Yearbook for each Team (Or team you're controlling)
42. Complete Stadium Editing
43. Backyard Football Option (2 on 2, 3 on 3, 5 on 5, etc...Or Street Football)
44. Top Ten Hits
45. Pigskin Pickems (You pick who you think will win for that week)
46. Mascots
47. Historic Stadiums
48. NFL Referee Mode (You make the call)
49. NFL Cheerleader Mode (You be the cheerleader and control all cheerleader duties, good for wives, girlfriends that nag not to play, plus the view is great for us men)
50. Historic Games (Fog Bowl, Superbowls, etc...)
51. NFL Films Archive (Actual Real Video, or Maddenized video)
52. Special Teams Revamp (Offense and defense have been so far, why not ST?)
53. Sports Ticker during season or franchise Mode
54. Fighting (I know it's not hockey, but it does happen)
55. All Madden Playlist (Songs from all Madden games on one) or create your own playlist
56. NFL Fan Mode (Control fans from the seats, edit fans, etc...)
57. Old school teams and players (From beginning of NFL, up to the late 60s)
58. Stadium Tours (Videos, real or virtual)
59. Tailgating (Show actual videos of tailgating fans before games, at halftime, and postgame, interviews)
60. Keep EA Sports, It's in the game at the beginning
61. NFL Hitting Mode ( Nothing but Hitting drills)
62. Historic Players (Not just from Historic Teams, Barry Sanders?)
63. Cheats

Accurate calls when challenging a play! Far too often I challenge a call. The video shot agrees with me and the call goes the opposite way. This is extremely frustrating. As well, the AI almost never loses a challenge, I almost never win.

also when a player gets old enough to retire and wants to retire, you should be able to offer them extra money to stick around 1 more year, or offer them a great shot at a championship ala seau.

look at rice, he didn't want to retire - they made him cause no one wanted him....42 years old and catches 145 yards in ONE GAME....

also allow the ability to change player positions, like for instance on the depth chart move a LB to DE or CB to WR/ WR to CB

The major wishes.....

1.) Bring back the fantasy draft

2.) Some sort of attribute that gives players leadership or teaching. so if you have kurt warner or drew bledsoe on your team, you can draft the rookie and he can sit on the bench and learn from the veteren infront of him. i have been hoping for that for a long time.

1. I would like to see the next-gen engine ported over to the PC. An option to play using next-gen graphics could be added. Doing that would still allow users of lower end machines to be able to play the game, and allow a large percentage of users to enjoy the improved graphics. As like now, an auto-detect feature could select which generation the user defaults with.

Thank you to EA for making a wonderful game again. You all amaze me every year I get Madden, this year is definitly no exception. I believe porting to next-gen would take the PC experience to a whole new level.

-The superstar mode is pretty cool, except for the camera view. -I would like to change the accersoires on existing players, also if you create a player, some of the visors don't fit the mask. -Bring back the old mini camp drills. The new drills are pretty cool and somewhat accurate, but I found the old ones a lot more fun. _Let us propose contracts to retiring players. -Bring back the old franchise mode options such as setting the prices of tickets food, etc (maybe make an owner mode for that).

what happend to the owner thing in the franchise mode? that was the best part...i hope they add it in next year

yep.

Ok for one a FANTASY DRAFT OMG I cannot believe you dont have a fantasy draft for the xbox 360

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fishman0929 (EA.com)

Not a big list, in fact only one thing:

Custom soundtrack. XBOX people can save music into there XBOXes to use, PS2 people could have some sort of usb connecter to cpu or a jumpdrive to import songs and gamecube, well, theyre SOL. lol