About a month into madden 26- thoughts?

Curious, thinking of buying the game or waiting until thanksgiving

It’s ok. Gameplay is kinda meh. Defense is basically a coin toss every drive. Player movement is improved. Packs are atrocious. Every game feels like the same game just on repeat. I think it is better than last year but that’s an extremely low bar.

xXcGilmer18Xx said:

It’s ok. Gameplay is kinda meh. Defense is basically a coin toss every drive. Player movement is improved. Packs are atrocious. Every game feels like the same game just on repeat. I think it is better than last year but that’s an extremely low bar.

perfectly put

Packs and content is very mid. I actually like the gameplay this year though. Games are typically close, i can run a nice balanced game and dont run into much cheese

xXcGilmer18Xx said:

It’s ok. Gameplay is kinda meh. Defense is basically a coin toss every drive. Player movement is improved. Packs are atrocious. Every game feels like the same game just on repeat. I think it is better than last year but that’s an extremely low bar.

So player movement is better.

What about Pass/Run blocking? Secure Protector became essential towards the end.

Coverage Man/Zone? Universal Coverage didn't fix this.

Physics? O-line couldn't block DB's. 

Defensive awareness or play recognition adjustments? You could run the same few plays all game, no AI adjustments.

Pass drops/catching? Big issue and KO's made it worse.

One v One  tackling? Impossible to stop the run towards the end.

Passing without Abilities? Try playing without Deadeye.

These were all issues last year and they were all addressed with Abilities and baked-on X-factors, but playing the game in Franchise mode was nearly impossible.

started off good, you may want to wait til november.

im learning a new playbook, so i suck BUT....there's no certainty you can even get the ball accurately to wide open players with some of the game coding

xXcGilmer18Xx said:

It’s ok. Gameplay is kinda meh. Defense is basically a coin toss every drive. Player movement is improved. Packs are atrocious. Every game feels like the same game just on repeat. I think it is better than last year but that’s an extremely low bar.

this

game was elite on launch day and for a few days, been declining pretty bad since

Cowboyssuck said:

Curious, thinking of buying the game or waiting until thanksgiving

It’s a lot better than Madden 25, but still not worth $90. Still a lot of bugs, issues, and general annoyance. I would wait until the game goes on sale during Black Friday.