Madden Research Paper

The Madden football game is the most popular and currently only console football game and the game itself does a lot to measure up to the real thing, but there are some things that hinder it for achieving an almost virtual reality form of the game of football. Madden is a video game franchise that has been around for twenty-nine years and counting. When the first iteration of this game was released it was originally called “John Madden football” for the Hall of fame coach that it sponsored. Produced by EA (Electronic Arts) the madden games are released annually and each year that it is released the game keeps improving and improving. EA has exclusive rights to make NFL branded football games and to use the teams, stadiums, players and their likenesses, and just about anything that can be digitized into a playable format. But, the only …show more content…
Madden gives you a sense of paramountcy over everything going on in the game. In reality what you see on a field is a combination of many different coaches styles and opinions. Coaches on the sideline have to constantly communicate to maintain some sort of flow or consistency. While in madden it is you whom is making all the decisions not a bunch of different people trying to agree on what play or scheme to run. The game of madden also allows you to see the whole field from above whilst while playing you only have your line of sight and instinct to go off of when playing. The most obvious difference is the lack of physical exertion needed to play madden compared to an actual practice or game situation. Coaches also have to watch film and come up with a gameplan on how to deal with a certain team or player. Coaches can not just put their players on a field and hope to get them to do what they’re supposed to do, they have to work with them and show them techniques on how to do their job