Josh Allen is the cover athlete for this year’s annual installment of EA’s Madden franchise. That’s a big deal for a rising young star who has helped turn the Buffalo Bills from perennial doormat to Super Bowl contender.
But it’s not the honor it once was, because the game itself has become yet another product of EA’s broken assembly line. Each year, the company pumps out a new game and extolls the virtues of all the changes its made. And each year the gameplay is roughly the same, the career and general manager modes underwhelm and, despite the hype, a bunch of us long for the days of the Sega Dreamcast and NFL2K.
