1.5/5 ★ – jdraco's review of EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 25.

Madden is a lot like a hard drug for me Because I know that it’s terrible and costly for me to keep playing it, I know that it’ll keep chipping away at my sanity until I have to live in a mental institution, and I know that continuously buying it is a waste of so many hard-earned dollars But for some reason... I can’t stop myself from playing it, and I genuinely just don’t know why It’s gotten to the point now where I need a team of advanced neurologists to assess my brain, because this just isn’t normal Madden fucking sucks. It always has, and this version is absolutely no exception But, again, I can’t stop playing it I think it might be because I genuinely love football and I want so badly to just have a good football game, and year after year, maybe subconsciously, I hope that it might get better But it never does. It’s just the same dogshit year after year after year And it never evolves; it just stays the exact same I will say, though, that this one is slightly better than the last game Primarily just because the menus are better and the gameplay is a little bit "smoother,” And I put “smoother” in quotes because calling the gameplay of Madden smooth is like calling Amy Schumer a good comedian It’s just completely irrational But that being said, even though it is better than the last game, it’s still fucking ass There’s a million glitches; the AI is stupid; ridiculous plays happen every 2 seconds; EA doesn’t know how to make faces that don’t look like fucking goblins; again, it’s the same shit every year And you know what? I’m done with it I just need to conquer my addiction and quit playing this shitty franchise Because there are so many amazing games out there that I’ve yet to play because I’ve been too preoccupied playing this dogshit franchise Hell, I was playing a masterpiece in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door just a month ago, but for whatever reason I stopped playing it, instead opting to play this for some reason Well, no more; no more choosing this over better games; I’m done I want to start playing more games again and reviewing more games again And without Madden in my life, that’s exactly what I’m going to do So fuck you, Madden, and I’m giving this game a 1.5/5