EA does it again.
EA does the bare minimum to get people to think they've tried and improve the game.
The menus look different and the animations look cool for the menus. But all it does is trick you into thinking that the game is improved drastically.
It's not to say that the game hasn't improved. It did. But when EA makes tiny updates to the game and releases it as a $60 dollar game every year. It shows that they don't care about the player base. They only care when the fans get angry and add little things to get them to calm down, and the cycle keeps repeating.
Madden NFL 20 gets a "story mode" and it's about as bare bones as it gets. Madden NFL 06, a game that was created back in 2005 and it was the first year they had "NFL Superstars" mode had more content than "Face of the Franchise". You can only play as a QB when in Madden NFL 06 you could be a **** kicker or punter if you wanted to; and the big kick in the balls is after the cutscenes and fluff stuff is done you get booted to franchise and back to the boring "career mode" that Madden has had for the past couple games.
Franchise continues to get only marginal changes. UI is changed to again think they actually made drastic changes to the mode. The one big thing they hyped up about is the **** Pro Bowl. A game that no one cares and the players don't care.
Of course Ultimate Team is the main focus for EA because that's their cash cow. They put all the updates into it. I don't care about Ultimate Team, neither do a lot of people; but morons keep buying the stupid packs that will become irrelevant once the next Madden game happens. It's about the equivalent of burning money.
Gameplay is still...playable. Being an animation driven football game still sucks compared to a physics driven football game, but at least I can find some sort of fun with just the gameplay.
The gameplay is the only reason why the score is as high as a 3. Without the gameplay being playable this game would've been a 0 or a 1.
Maybe one day we might get a proper NFL game not made by greedy companies that don't care about the product they put out.