Madden NFL 21

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0.3

Overwhelming dislike- based on 5792 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 5,673 out of 5792
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  1. justthisasian
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    EA has become a lazy copy and paste company. I truly believe madden games have actually gotten worse in the past 10 years. Unacceptable. Time for change.
  2. Knightwing55
    Sep 2, 2020
    0
    This game is an absolute travesty NFL please drop EA year after year they just copy and paste they don’t care give the rights to a company who cares maybe 2K or a smaller company to have all their focus on it and make the game truly great like it was with obvious features and important modes and functions and make the gameplay new and innovative instead of THE SAME THING EVERY YEAR also onThis game is an absolute travesty NFL please drop EA year after year they just copy and paste they don’t care give the rights to a company who cares maybe 2K or a smaller company to have all their focus on it and make the game truly great like it was with obvious features and important modes and functions and make the gameplay new and innovative instead of THE SAME THING EVERY YEAR also on a side note if you need more evidence there are madden 20 logos in madden 21 and the same with madden 20 there are madden 19 logos in madden 20 good day #NFLDROPEA… Expand
  3. DeVito8704
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    The NFL seriously needs to stop allowing EA to make anymore of these fraudulent games. EA is one of the slimiest companies of all time and they are TERRIBLE for gaming. I wish gamers would just grow a spine and boycott EVERYTHING EA.
  4. Seventh414
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    Esse jogo é o mesmo do ano passado não mudou nada,na verdade veio muito mais bugado,além de tudo esse jogo é um cassino como fifa,não recomendo esse jogo,mais é claro que vai ter otario para comprar essa merda
  5. YouWereAMistake
    Sep 10, 2020
    0
    Copy and paste. Needs to focus on fixing the issues plaguing the game every release instead of releasing new garbage that nobody asked for.
  6. Mdan1424
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well what can I say, I am completely disappointed by the turn out of Madded 21. I saw so much potential from many years back, like create a team possibly coming back, or franchise actually letting you design a stadium and uniforms like 2K does in its NBA Series. Might I add that, they are far superior then Electronic Arts when it comes to sports games. EA has completely dropped the ball on this game, just rereleasing Madden 20 with new rosters and one new game mode called The Yard. The yard is sort of a backyard football type of vibe where you play to earn credits. Which in turn you can use to buy gear for your character. When I played a few games, which mind you were not easy, I noticed I would only get a few hundred credits here or there. Now not to worry, because EA has brought in microtransactions to save the day! Making all the clothing that is actually desirable completely out of range for the casual player to actually get anything worth while, EA expects you to pay for Credits which in turn you can use to buy your favorite article of clothing. It's mostly just a Cash Grab for EA, just like the past few years have been with every Madden game released from Madden 13 forward. Another "new" mode, which is just a rebrand career mode, is Face of the Franchise. Face of the Franchise isn't bad, but it honestly just feels rebadged from last year, some of the most crucial parts of your career, like choosing your new position, isnt even voice acted. Now they did try to take a step forward with you continuing your career after the draft. But it has you skipping alot of your games throughout your career. The most I've ever played in one Season is 4 games, two of them against your rival, and then two in the playoffs. Honestly it's just thrown together last minute and isn't really worth picking up if this is the mode you are after.

    Ultimate team is again the main focus of the game, mainly because EA wants you to buy packs to improve your team. Trust me when I say this, its exactly like Madden 20, but with new paint splashed around everywhere. They really want you to be in this mode, because they want your money more then your satisfaction, and honestly, after being ignored for years by EA, they dont deserve it.

    I'm not going to go into detail about Franchise mode, mainly because it's exactly the same as last year. Nothing has changed in Franchise mode except for the paint scheme.

    Gameplay is the same as last year, with some improvements that I can say have taken my frustrations away. Everyone knows about being sacked even though you threw the ball to your receiver. They finally added a throw out of sack animation to the same, and that has relieved alot of frustration from playing the game for me. It's just the first release so there are alot of glitches, as to be expected, but they didnt do alot to fix them in Madden 20, so I dont expect those to go away anytime soon in 21.

    Honestly, this game let me down, there was some positive, but alot, and I mean ALOT, of negatives in Madden 21. I'm giving this game a 1 out of 10, because it was just rebadged from Madden 20, 19, 18, 17, yeah you get the picture. I wont be buying another Madden game again. If 2K gets rights to start making NFL Simulation games, you best be sure, I'll be over there trying to get my hands on that copy.    … Expand
  7. Mkfm
    Oct 4, 2020
    0
    Genuinely the worst madden I have ever played. Madden has been garbage since 2008 and I believe it’s so unfair that EA has a monopoly over the NFL games. It’s so stupid and I hope to god the NFL terminates trot contract with EA. They put zero effort into making football games and they are only in it for the money. It’s all scripted and based off animations not skill.
  8. RCHANCE
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    Terrible game. Worst Madden so far. Y'all don't even try no more. Selling the same game every year
  9. Chaijman
    Jul 9, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I didn't like the game. EA is being lazy af and is just putting out carbon copies of madden 20 for madden 21, and same for madden 20 they made which is basically the same as maddem 19. At least in my professional gaming opinion of 20+ years… Expand
  10. jelie
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Another year of absolute garbage. I've been fed up with Madden for years. it is great to see fellow gamers finally speak out on how far EA and this game has fallen. There have been zero positive changes for quite some time in any of actual football focused game modes. My favorite mode was Franchise which has clearly been ignored by developers. I hope all the finally wakes up the NFL toAnother year of absolute garbage. I've been fed up with Madden for years. it is great to see fellow gamers finally speak out on how far EA and this game has fallen. There have been zero positive changes for quite some time in any of actual football focused game modes. My favorite mode was Franchise which has clearly been ignored by developers. I hope all the finally wakes up the NFL to drop their agreement with EA and find a developer who would actually care about producing a good product for fans of the sport.… Expand
  11. Tybucks
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    Somehow they had madden 21, but also somehow made it **** I don't know how in gods green earth they managed to do that, but they did.
  12. osjones
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    this game is horrible just a reskin with the same modes and nothing new to franchise
  13. KrispyKremer
    Dec 30, 2020
    0
    Madden NFL 21 is a terrible game for many reasons. The game is shallow, with 89 features from older games completely absent, the gameplay is awful, bugs and glitches are everywhere, and yet the game still sells thanks to an exclusive NFL simulation license, game changers/mut streamers promoting the game, and "madden simps". It's a bad game with a perfect storm of chaos allowing it to beMadden NFL 21 is a terrible game for many reasons. The game is shallow, with 89 features from older games completely absent, the gameplay is awful, bugs and glitches are everywhere, and yet the game still sells thanks to an exclusive NFL simulation license, game changers/mut streamers promoting the game, and "madden simps". It's a bad game with a perfect storm of chaos allowing it to be successful. It's a scam. ESPN NFL 2k5 a game that wa made 15 years ago blows this game out of the water. Madden 12 was the last good madden game and EA sports just pumps out the same game as a cash grab every year.… Expand
  14. WhatADik
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    Same old trash I can't stand this game the gameplay is boring and stale #NFLDropEA
  15. Kaydn
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    0 reason to play this garbage so 0 is the score I give it. Just absolutely despicable trash. #NFLdropEA
  16. AlNU
    Nov 10, 2020
    0
    Absolute disgrace. Worse than last year at full price. EA just doesn't care. No news there. NFL should do EA's exclusivity, because this is **** bad.
  17. usmc
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Ea needs to go. Its not funny no more. Its time we all stand up to these ****
  18. V_sampaio
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    A NFL precisa cancelar o contrato com a EA em benefício da sua própria imagem!
  19. Josh28
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    Just terrible, can’t describe it in any other way. There is honestly no point in even buying it
  20. YOZZed
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    Same game every time. EA has to STOP. The game's just terrible literally copy and paste. Can't they just hire good devs with all of that money?
  21. stumpfuqr
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    It truly amazes me how EA can release the same basic game each year, recycling 95% of the game; the mediocre graphics, bizarre player models, same old load screens; and yet at the same time continually find all new ways to break the game and frustrate it's users. Of course, they keep all the old bugs that they have never bothered fixing as well. There's a reason you find EA at the bottomIt truly amazes me how EA can release the same basic game each year, recycling 95% of the game; the mediocre graphics, bizarre player models, same old load screens; and yet at the same time continually find all new ways to break the game and frustrate it's users. Of course, they keep all the old bugs that they have never bothered fixing as well. There's a reason you find EA at the bottom of any AAA Game Dev rankings. They release buggy, crappy software, an don't care. That's their MO. I've been playing Madden on and off since SNES. Just once, I would like to buy Madden, install it, and have it run properly. Hell, decently. Once in my STINKING FREAKIN LIFE. JUST. ONCE. Just like the last 4 or 5 versions, there are errors everywhere. Squads still doesn't work, which sucks since me and my buddy buy this to play together, and we can't because apparently EA is too busy selling loot boxes to fix a problem half the community has been screaming about for 2 years. There is a stutter/glitch where it drops frames every 60 seconds or so, everything freezees, stutters, and glitches, which is really helpful in the middle of a play. The yard markers/field markings aren't there about 1 out of 5 games. There's a glitch with the QB throwing on his own. Just throws it. Why not. No point talking about franchise mode, they literally cut/copied and pasted it in for the 3rd year in a row. Literally. Not. A. Single. Change. Wanna play against someone online? Good luck, will it work, will the servers crash, who knows, it's a mystery. They added a new play mode called The Yard which is supposed to be like NBA street ball, it's interesting for like 5 minutes, just a stupid mode, and is basically there to.... you guessed it, sell you more stuff. Face of the Franchise is a colossal waste of time they could have spent just fixing their broken game. I could go on, but let's just say, this game is a mess. A total mess. This should never have gotten past beta.
    These aren't games. They are vehicles to seperate you from your money. As they take more and more control away from the user and force more and more crap in the game, the more disconnected I feel from anything going on in front of me. They just don't care about anything except selling packs. Funny how those never glitch out. Go figure. If you want to play some video game football, and don't use Ultimate team mode, just track down a version a few years old (18 or 19) for 1/4 of the price, really it's about the same damn game, absolutely no point in plunking money down for this POS unless you really like handing EA hundreds of dollars for mediocre rewards. So frustrating. EA has an exclusive license with the NFL. This game is gold proof that that competition is necessary in business otherwise you get, well, the disaster that is Madden. This is the only EA product i ever buy because I really, really want to have a football game on PS4. I pray to every god under the stars that someone, anyone, makes one and we can jettison this horrid, glitchy piece of trash once and for all.    … Expand
  22. svensenk86
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    the first Madden since years I did not buy, I have tried it at a friends place, but yeah as said before, same same same same same....I want to have a proper career mode again, miss that feeling leading my franchise over the years, but it is the same since 10 years it feels like...I do not buy it just for some online games, with MUT this game costs at the end 500 EUR when you want tothe first Madden since years I did not buy, I have tried it at a friends place, but yeah as said before, same same same same same....I want to have a proper career mode again, miss that feeling leading my franchise over the years, but it is the same since 10 years it feels like...I do not buy it just for some online games, with MUT this game costs at the end 500 EUR when you want to compete with other dudes. The sad thing is, finally a Ravens player is on the cover again, but this is not a reason to buy it. Too bad where this series went, it was EA`s flagship in the past, now it is just a sad story...… Expand
  23. Michaelsp007
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    Don't waste your money. Make EA be better. They won't get better till we refuse to buy the same reskin since madden 13
  24. mannylovescooch
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Just the same **** every year #FIXFRANCHISE #NFLDROPEA **** trashhhhhhhhhhhhh
  25. Colt4569
    Sep 30, 2020
    0
    If you buy this game, and you love it, you're too easy to please. If you hate it, you might be dumb. These games don't get any better! Don't buy the next one!
  26. Dukedahouse
    Feb 19, 2021
    0
    Unbelievably horrid. EA just doesn’t care anymore. You can tell because every Madden is just the same as last years. Madden NFL 21 is no exception. Where do I even start with this one? The graphics couldn’t pass for a PS2 game, it is glitchy beyond belief, the ratings are horribly inaccurate, Face of the Franchise’s voice acting and writing are laughable, and the games emulation ofUnbelievably horrid. EA just doesn’t care anymore. You can tell because every Madden is just the same as last years. Madden NFL 21 is no exception. Where do I even start with this one? The graphics couldn’t pass for a PS2 game, it is glitchy beyond belief, the ratings are horribly inaccurate, Face of the Franchise’s voice acting and writing are laughable, and the games emulation of football is insanely unrealistic. EA has just given up at this point. There are better Madden games on the GameCube and PS2 than this one on the PS5! This game is not worth a penny. There are better fan games that emulate football! On mobile devices! Retro bowl is a retro-style game and is much more enjoyable and realistic than madden. And it’s free on your phone! Now that they’ve extended the exclusive right deal with the NFL, they’ll continue scamming millions of people making the same $60 piece of Garbage they do every year. I bought this game on a discount for $20 and I feel robbed. I’m never giving a penny to EA until they bother putting even the slightest bit of effort into the game.… Expand
  27. neukend
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    At this point the NFL License to EA can't be more valuable than making a good football game. NFL, stop this already! Let anyone compete to make an NFL game. There's no competition, which makes this game more awful every year.
  28. Crissss
    Aug 30, 2020
    0
    Game play is so so so so so so stale to the point where after 2 mins of playing I got pissed and deleted the game bc I wasted 60 bucks on a piece of burning **** forged by the **** at EA. I would get more satisfaction burning 60 bucks and im sure you will to
  29. Akamyab
    Sep 8, 2021
    0
    Another giant pile of garbage by EA, I can’t wait till they lose this license.
  30. DrZombie
    Sep 1, 2020
    0
    Everything wrong with modern gaming, recycled/reused assets (models, animations, cut scenes, etc) next to no improvements compared to older iterations + constant removal of options and features, complete lack of polish, and on top of that, predatory and shameless micro transactions.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 29
  3. Negative: 2 out of 29
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Oct 8, 2020
    40
    Madden NFL 21 is another blatant recycling of last year’s edition of the „simulation“ of the American football. Sadly, most of the modes remained the same. Gameplay received a few minor tweaks, and in the end it still persists as a cash grab not worth anybody’s time.
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  2. LevelUp
    Sep 14, 2020
    70
    Madden NFL says goodbye to a generation with more questions than answers and with an uncertain perspective on what may happen in the years to come.
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  3. Impulsegamer
    Sep 9, 2020
    70
    For NFL diehards, there remains hundreds of gaming hours at your disposal in Madden 21. These same diehards – much like players of EA’s NHL and Sony’s The Show – will be left with the impression they’ve played this game before, however.
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