Madden NFL 22

 Xbox Series X
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0.6

Overwhelming dislike- based on 334 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 334
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 334
  3. Negative: 314 out of 334
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  1. DzmitryBoston
    Aug 13, 2022
    2
    Download. Delete. Repeat again next year. Same crap over and over. Don't bother.
  2. N1ghtSky
    Jun 13, 2022
    0
    Ea treats the pc like it its worse than their prized next gen consoles. Can't even write a full review till we get all the features.
  3. OwenRothenberg
    Apr 7, 2022
    0
    A $60 roster update with worse receivers and better cornerbacks. Every pass is a pick. The commentators are the same as Madden 17. The franchise mode is the same as years before. There are no features like creating a team or creating a play. The animations are cheesy and the graphics engine is dated. DO NOT BUY.
  4. MutedEternal
    Apr 6, 2022
    0
    It only gets worse the more they make this game. It's too animation reliant, no real physics, no real control. And good luck trying to outsmart a CPU team on the Harder difficulties. Game is trash and always will be
  5. REDMAN_GAMING
    Mar 30, 2022
    0
    the worst game i have ever played, a truly awful experience, ea deserves to lose all its money

    franchise mode is worse then it was before now that the new scouting is out because in the offseason your scouting can mess up your teams money, you might think its more of a money managment thing but madden 22 lacks real managment of money madden 22 has the worst gameplay of any football    the worst game i have ever played, a truly awful experience, ea deserves to lose all its money

    franchise mode is worse then it was before now that the new scouting is out because in the offseason your scouting can mess up your teams money, you might think its more of a money managment thing but madden 22 lacks real managment of money

    madden 22 has the worst gameplay of any football game and every update adds more glitches

    madden 22 is completly awful at everything it dose

    i dont want ea to fix their game i want ea to stop making games    … Expand
  6. Kingcellus
    Sep 25, 2021
    5
    I’m 15 so I only realized madden was getting pretty bad when madden 21 came out I was a ea play subscriber and franchise was bugging out like crazy.but since madden 17 they started to not give a **** about us. but madden 22 on next Gen is way more realistic they just have to fix the glitches and put in more freaking animations I’ve literally seen the same animations for too many yearsI’m 15 so I only realized madden was getting pretty bad when madden 21 came out I was a ea play subscriber and franchise was bugging out like crazy.but since madden 17 they started to not give a **** about us. but madden 22 on next Gen is way more realistic they just have to fix the glitches and put in more freaking animations I’ve literally seen the same animations for too many years This gets an 8 because i only really care about gameplay and franchise and both of those are significantly better then previous years in my opinion.

    UPDATE: this game is slightly better then madden 21    … Expand
  7. Calirado2
    Mar 19, 2022
    0
    EA sucks. You guys don't give a **** about your customers. I hope everyone for EA gets slapped by God.
  8. Slazzo
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    This is by far the worst Madden game I’ve ever played. Thankfully, I didn’t waste my money buying the game and instead downloaded it from the game pass. The biggest issue is how unrealistic the player movements are, mainly with how a defensive player can leap into the air and intercept a quarterback even if they’ve been facing away from him and shouldn’t be able to know exactly where theThis is by far the worst Madden game I’ve ever played. Thankfully, I didn’t waste my money buying the game and instead downloaded it from the game pass. The biggest issue is how unrealistic the player movements are, mainly with how a defensive player can leap into the air and intercept a quarterback even if they’ve been facing away from him and shouldn’t be able to know exactly where the ball is. Another issue is literally every player having the same body; if it’s a lineman - just widen the belly and make the ankles bigger. Franchise mode is more boring than it has ever been. I can’t count how many times I’ve restarted a franchise because the stats and game results being the most unrealistic imaginable. You’d think as being a literal monopoly to the NFL, you’d be able to at least make the game functional and realistic. That’s not the case here. I yearn for the day that EA either loses the rights to NFL football games or they go bankrupt. That can’t happen as long as 40 year old dads and moms getting it for their 12 year olds get in the way.… Expand
  9. gasmasquerade
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    stuttering garbage game. I would usually make a joke about how the fps turned into spf, but here the game would freeze for minutes. Before you ask yes I do have the recommended specs
  10. dafunkk
    Feb 25, 2022
    0
    Right off the bat -- "Can EA have you information?" No. "But you'll miss out on this ultimate team pack!" No. "Are you sure?" Smh...

    Bad AI. Boring gameplay. Less control of offensive and defensive audibles than when this franchise used to be good. Next to no custom options for Franchise mode. Repetitive and tired commentary. Way too many interruptions. Ads, everywhere. So many adds.    Right off the bat -- "Can EA have you information?" No. "But you'll miss out on this ultimate team pack!" No. "Are you sure?" Smh...

    Bad AI. Boring gameplay. Less control of offensive and defensive audibles than when this franchise used to be good. Next to no custom options for Franchise mode. Repetitive and tired commentary. Way too many interruptions. Ads, everywhere. So many adds. Drink more Gatorade.

    I got this game for free on Game Pass and it still feels like it cost too much. 0/10, hot garbage, better off playing an older (Pre 2018) Madden and just customizing the rosters.    … Expand
  11. illviticus
    Feb 21, 2022
    0
    I haven't played a Madden title in over 5 years. I should have kept it that way. Characters feel like they have no weight to them as they skate all over an ice rink. It is mostly noticeable on defense. The dependency of animation based gameplay is way too noticeable as well.

    With gameplay out of the way, the presentation is a cluster of spam ads. The only real way i can put it. The    I haven't played a Madden title in over 5 years. I should have kept it that way. Characters feel like they have no weight to them as they skate all over an ice rink. It is mostly noticeable on defense. The dependency of animation based gameplay is way too noticeable as well.

    With gameplay out of the way, the presentation is a cluster of spam ads. The only real way i can put it. The Ultimate Team is now at the forefront of the game as the main mode, a mode i could care less for and won't touch if you paid me. It is not real football, just a pay to win gimmick they can recycle every season. I'd be more open to this mode if they didn't do a hard reset on everyone's progress each year.

    This game is suffering mostly from having an unrealistic archaic release expectation of seasonal releases in a much more modern time of just constantly updating ONE game. We are online now. Some people, like myself, have been buying digital only for over a decade. If they were allowed to have one Madden game that they consistently updated and perhaps charged a smaller fee for the roster updates it would make sense. Considering they already have paid microtransactions in a full priced game I have no idea why this idea hasn't been brought up yet. Not to mention, the past two years they have been literally giving the game away via social media and other means due to widely poor reception. This franchise is practically begging for a free to play model.

    Lastly, if you made it this far the Face of the Franchise mode I just could not stomach. Maybe it is because I am getting older and cannot relate, or maybe it is because EA is out of touch and think this is what "kids these days" do. Every cutscene I tried to sit through was literally just you and your buds trying to make Tik Toks out of everything you were doing. Everything said was very cringe worthy and made me feel second hand embarrassment to the point I'd end up skipping the scenes entirely. Also the NIKE sponsorship is so baked into this game that they basically turn you into the player you could never have been without their institute you show up to and get schooled by. Its so ridiculous it is insulting.

    Needless to say I played my college game and realized how much of a decline this franchise has made even in 5 years. I miss the gameplay and feel of the titles from 2008 if I am being honest. I believe APF 2k8 probably had the best sense of weight and smart player AI that I can truly remember. Unfortunate people are stuck with nonsense football titles like this one.

    Please do better EA, for the love of the game and out of respect to the genius who was John Madden.    … Expand
  12. Hisamurai
    Feb 20, 2022
    2
    Graphics are good but that’s it, everything else about the game is bad. When you throw the to your wide receiver, they doesn’t go for the ball at all. But the defender just automatically goes for it… it should be the other way around. Game is awful.
  13. Firegoodell
    Feb 15, 2022
    0
    I used to be a diehard madden fan from 07-17. The game has somehow gotten even worse from when I stopped playing. It’s so sad. I would play everyday if madden even put out a half decent game.
  14. mikchicken
    Feb 9, 2022
    0
    Animations still dont respect physics, franchise mode is still incredibly bland missing features from years ago. It seems as if every year EA is only wrried about making the MUT experience more fun which is BS to the madden players out there that want a true simulation football game. NFL needs to get out of this exclusivity contract with EA and allow competition back in the marketplace.
  15. BeastMode12
    Jan 29, 2022
    3
    Animation Based, awful gameplay and lacking the features that games from 10+ years ago had.
  16. Mikee1976
    Jan 23, 2022
    2
    Bought the newest Madden (22) because of the promise of an updated Franchise experience, Franchise is why I play. But the game play is so crappy and unrealistic that it just ruins the game. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I won’t ever buy another Madden game. As an example, I was playing the Jaguars and up by 21 points when all of a sudden their passing offense becomes UNSTOPPABLE.Bought the newest Madden (22) because of the promise of an updated Franchise experience, Franchise is why I play. But the game play is so crappy and unrealistic that it just ruins the game. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I won’t ever buy another Madden game. As an example, I was playing the Jaguars and up by 21 points when all of a sudden their passing offense becomes UNSTOPPABLE. Three straight drives they shred my defense, including one play where a small rookie receiver runs over a stacked MLB and a CB for a TD. Almost no incompletions. Meanwhile, my top 3 WRs suddenly can’t hang on to a single pass that comes their way. It happens in every version of the game for the past few years, but this is just blatantly ridiculous and I am done dealing with it. The game is no longer fun because of this, and the music gets worse every year. The music might even be worse than the gameplay, which is really saying something…..and I haven’t even gotten into the glitches….this game is straight up garbage.… Expand
  17. ecrentrop
    Jan 3, 2022
    0
    Very animation dependent game. As a lover of franchise mode, it was nice to see the well overdue makeover, however even with that there are still issues with it. Load times are not what they were hyped up to be. There aren’t real coordinators, there’s no longer the easy push down on right stick to change characters (if you like to control multiple teams like me) like you used to, contractVery animation dependent game. As a lover of franchise mode, it was nice to see the well overdue makeover, however even with that there are still issues with it. Load times are not what they were hyped up to be. There aren’t real coordinators, there’s no longer the easy push down on right stick to change characters (if you like to control multiple teams like me) like you used to, contract lengths are still unable to be changed for mid season free agents, I could go on and on. Sure they are little things, but easy things to fix. You can tell when you load into the main menu that their main focus is Ultimate Team. They advertise every new promotion they have and the micro transactions are what they make their profit on. Which sucks for people that play ultimate team for the challenge of building a team without using real money. All EA wants is your money and they know they can put out a borderline mediocre game every year and fans will buy it because 1. They’re the only option, and 2. They have so many online influencers promoting their game as something worth the $70 price tag. It is not. If the NFL opened up their license to all developers, EA would lose a lot of sales for Madden because people have been begging for a fresh start for YEARS. The only thing this game has going for it over any Pre-Madden 12 game, is the graphics. You take these graphics and slap them over Madden 12 with some updated rosters, this game would be amazing. But EA doesn’t seem to see it that way. It’s a shame really because until the NFL realizes that this game has sucked for years, this is what we are stuck with.… Expand
  18. ColeScrim13
    Dec 13, 2021
    0
    An improvement from last year but still worse than Madden 04 made in 2003 that costs less than a dollar while this horrible game still costs $60 #NFLdropEA
  19. danger22jmb
    Dec 13, 2021
    2
    Honest review time! Next Gen, huh? So as a Madden player since the very beginning, Madden 22 is better than Madden 98! Its also better than Madden 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 which the majority of new player only remember. The graphics are what you should expect from a modern system, i like the momentum meter and the game day atmosphere. Now the bad, defensive logic is terrible, the bugsHonest review time! Next Gen, huh? So as a Madden player since the very beginning, Madden 22 is better than Madden 98! Its also better than Madden 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 which the majority of new player only remember. The graphics are what you should expect from a modern system, i like the momentum meter and the game day atmosphere. Now the bad, defensive logic is terrible, the bugs are awful, the game consistently freezes, the controls to the game are laggy meaning you hit "x" the game does not register it right away, the scenarios are horrible, i had a player want to retire because my undefeated teams wasnt winning, the logic is terrible, had the Lions draft a QB even though the QB they drafted the previous year won OROTY and the skill tree i didnt update simmed through the season and still won the super bowl! Showing it actually means NOTHING! Over all I do think this game is an improvement over the last five years, however the last five years were horrible games too. This game is trash, bottom line! its just a more polished turn than in the last few years. As a Madden game it is definitely not nearly as good as any Madden made from 2008-2012 which were like the golden years of the game.… Expand
  20. LuCk3y
    Dec 9, 2021
    0
    dooooooooooooooooooooo dooooooooooooooooo game. Damn those are spoilers oops sorry.
  21. alspearman21
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    This game is so garbage do not waste your money or your time nothing has been fixed for about 10 years this will be the last Madame that I spend my money on it’s getting ridiculous how the players just defy logic and physics somebody’s dudes have a speed rating of 50 and throw the ball in the next thing you know they’re able to defend a receiver that has a speed rating of 90 the weather atThis game is so garbage do not waste your money or your time nothing has been fixed for about 10 years this will be the last Madame that I spend my money on it’s getting ridiculous how the players just defy logic and physics somebody’s dudes have a speed rating of 50 and throw the ball in the next thing you know they’re able to defend a receiver that has a speed rating of 90 the weather at these people use these glitch defenses that never get fixed we’re down distance in personnel don’t matter whatever they put them on a defense it’s just gonna happen because of the preprogrammed animations some of these passes somebody’s passes they get intercepted are beyond physics they move faster than the boulders which is impossible.… Expand
  22. CoochieCakes
    Nov 11, 2021
    0
    robo cop the remake (2014) made a better franchise mode than madden nfl 22.
  23. Cullenjk
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    Madden 22 is an absolute joke of a Football simulation game. I want to like this game, I really do; I've been playing Madden every year since 2005 and unfortunately, this is probably my last unless something major happens.

    EA has decided to double and triple down on the absolutely broken system of relying on animation triggering rather than creating an actual physics-based engine. Size    Madden 22 is an absolute joke of a Football simulation game. I want to like this game, I really do; I've been playing Madden every year since 2005 and unfortunately, this is probably my last unless something major happens.

    EA has decided to double and triple down on the absolutely broken system of relying on animation triggering rather than creating an actual physics-based engine. Size and weight mean absolutely nothing and to make matters worse some animations can cause the ball to teleport just so it can finish. Players will start flipping through the air well before contact has been made on a contested-catch, the list can go on and on. There is not one thing about this game that gives an authentic NFL feel.

    They hyped up a major franchise mode update after completely neglecting it for years and yet even after delaying the release for a whole month it still sucks! The actions are far more tedious, you get less information, less control, and ultimately a worse experience.

    I have honestly never been more disappointed in a game in my life; EA needs to either get their act together or they need to lose their exclusive rights. It's actually unbelievable how we have a less immersive game, a far clunkier, and ultimately worse game than the product they were putting out in the early 2000's.    … Expand
  24. Kobe8-24
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    got about... 2 hours of annoying and trash gameplay, and 2 more hours of just bugs, glitches, the game just not working, servers not loading, rainbow men, and more, I'm surprised that EA doesn't do a Bethesda and say it's a feature, this game is unplayable, franchise has no depth, online modes crash, MUT is a casino disguised as a gamemode for CHILDREN, Face of the Franchise is a jokegot about... 2 hours of annoying and trash gameplay, and 2 more hours of just bugs, glitches, the game just not working, servers not loading, rainbow men, and more, I'm surprised that EA doesn't do a Bethesda and say it's a feature, this game is unplayable, franchise has no depth, online modes crash, MUT is a casino disguised as a gamemode for CHILDREN, Face of the Franchise is a joke compared to Madden games from 17 years ago, in fact, you can even say that about franchise mode. Please bless us with competition in the market 2k, please.… Expand
  25. Nathanaw89
    Oct 25, 2021
    0
    I don’t have to say much at all. This is the worst Madden game ever. EA out did themselves on this one. The NFL should revoke the license so we can enjoy a way better NFL simulation from a way better company.
  26. MiggyXP
    Oct 16, 2021
    0
    The game is literally unplayable. Crashes my Xbox every time I’ve tried playing.
  27. Shanmily
    Oct 13, 2021
    0
    Garbage game. Filled with bugs. I specifically bought it for franchise mode but the franchise mode frequently crashes. 2k needs to make football games again!!!
  28. JT97
    Sep 30, 2021
    0
    Terrible. No logic in the game whatsoever. Just got a refund for it yesterday.
  29. Ryananthony14
    Sep 29, 2021
    3
    It’s sad to see how far this franchise has fallen. It’s like the game is still under development and in the early stages but they released it anyways. Bugs, freezing, wacky animations, poor and unrealistic gameplay. Franchise mode is weak again, Face of the Franchise is corny and boring, and FUT is all about profits for EA Sports.

    Some of the graphics look decent, that’s about it.    It’s sad to see how far this franchise has fallen. It’s like the game is still under development and in the early stages but they released it anyways. Bugs, freezing, wacky animations, poor and unrealistic gameplay. Franchise mode is weak again, Face of the Franchise is corny and boring, and FUT is all about profits for EA Sports.

    Some of the graphics look decent, that’s about it. Hopefully things are fixed for next year, but haven’t we said that for 10 years now?    … Expand
  30. OzzJackdaniels
    Aug 20, 2021
    0
    The graphics are beautiful on next gen. Gameplay is slightly better. I’m afraid this is the best EA can do with this engine. It’s always going to be buggy no matter how nice it looks and what they implement. New interface looks decent and some improvement to franchise. Long way to go before they have the same depth other sports games have. Face of the franchise and the yard are a waste ofThe graphics are beautiful on next gen. Gameplay is slightly better. I’m afraid this is the best EA can do with this engine. It’s always going to be buggy no matter how nice it looks and what they implement. New interface looks decent and some improvement to franchise. Long way to go before they have the same depth other sports games have. Face of the franchise and the yard are a waste of resources. Ultimate team is an even bigger cash grab this year. It’s pay to win. Wait for the game to be free to play if you have gamepass. Or buy it on sale. Not worth $70. And ultimate team isn’t worth your time or money. Update It’s worst then I thought. Franchise doesn’t work. Modes that no one plays get updates while franchise is ignored yet again. Worst madden ever released. If they didn’t have the exclusive rights madden would become nba live.… Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Xbox Tavern
    Sep 20, 2021
    63
    Madden 22 is the next year’s instalment on the franchise and I feel it’s gone back a step. Yes, it looks graphically better, but otherwise it’s really not that much different to previous instalments. The career mode is a roll-forward from previous years, as are the achievements. EA could do so much more with the Madden franchise and it’s a shame they haven’t executed it as well as I’d hope.
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  2. Generación Xbox
    Sep 15, 2021
    77
    With new features and additions to existing game modes Madden 22 can be a wonderful touchdown for the IP veterans.
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  3. Everyeye.it
    Sep 13, 2021
    70
    For those who have not played Madden NFL for a few years, the new episode may be the right opportunity to start over. The Franchise mode has been rearranged and the direction taken seems to be the right one, while the gameplay, waiting for the adjustments in the secondary, is appreciated for a renewed physics in the inertia of the players' movements and for an AI that in more than one opportunity surprised us positively. The magic of the new generation has been little seen for now: Madden NFL 22 is still a good game to watch even if it was legitimate to expect something more. In general, our advice is to wait for EA Tiburon to fix bugs and glitches: time is up and the season has just started.
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