'Madden 10': Five Things to Know

[djnemo65]

We'll see how this new dramatic gap in player ratings works out. I tell you this though - they had better have fixed franchise mode if they are going to do something like this. As it is now, drafted players almost never climb above 90, and anyone taken after the third round rarely cracks 80. Thus, after 10 or so franchise seasons, you are left with a league with a few 38 year old 98 rated players, and then a bunch of pretty much the same guy.

This has been a problem in every madden for 360. It's obviously something they haven't addressed. Every year people complain and they do nothing. Moreover, this innovation, while perhaps enhancing online play where you are only using a team for one game, threatens to exacerbate already existing problems with franchise mode by further widening the gap between real guys and the scrubs the computer generates.

I've just got a hunch they haven't changed anything in franchise mode for the fifth consecutive year and it's going to be a mess. Every year I see innovations in the game which, while impressive, are only geared towards online play.