Late last month Eli put on his Speculation Spectacles (those are a thing) and thought he sensed something was up with a new Madden release on mobile, given that Madden Social was pulled from the App Store and the service was being shuttered and the fact that EA let out a little snippet of info basically stating that a new mobile Madden game was on the horizon. Well, the speculation was accurate as Madden NFL 25 has apparently soft-launched in the Canadian App Store.
It definitely looks like this iteration of Madden on mobile is more of a full-fledged game than the Social versions, but it still seems like it’s got some weird free-to-play-isms happening. Like, you’ll form your team by picking players from packs of cards or you can pick some up in the “Auction House," which will be interesting to see how that whole thing works.
There’s also Solo Challenges which are exclusive to the mobile version as well as turn-based Head-2-Head matches, which could be extremely cool. We’ll poke around in this Canadian version of Madden NFL 25 to see what it’s all about, but if you’re in Canada or you have access to a Canadian App Store account go nuts and give the free download a try with the link below. You can also read impressions in our forums, and more than likely we’ll see the worldwide release of Madden on mobile alongside the console versions next week.
Canadian App Store Link: Madden NFL 25, Free (Universal)
Sweet! Time to DL RR!
Asphalt 8 all the way!
Still, EA 💩= pass
It's heartbreaking, isn't it? I give Firemint tons of credit for a game that's 90% spot on. To have the Mobile Division at EA ruin the experience of everything they get their hands on is pernicious mischief. Yet as TA CEO E.H. tells us, EA is raking in the cash to the point where mobile division profits are propping up the company as a whole. Aside from not downloading any of their products, regardless of genre, what are we to do?
This is the only thing we (the gamer) can do, just refusing to download their greedy freemium trash.
Who says we need to -do- anything? Support the good stuff you like, and don't spend any money on the bad. Publishers and Developers get the message when some of their products sell better than others. A "protester" who refuses to buy anything with a certain company's name on it is no better than a "fanboy" who'll gobble up everything their favorite dev puts out, regardless of quality.
Normally I would tend to agree with you but I'm talking about one Division of a larger company.
Not one game from EA this year hasn't been sullied buy their scheme. IAP is just the tip of the iceberg. Through metrics, socialization data and straight-up watching how you play their sole strategy entails coercing micropayments as often as they can, from as many users as they can. What that does to a particular game or a particular developer is not one of their concerns.
Put another way, would you stand for a word processor that charged you by the blank page? If not, why should gamers?
As beautiful as this game is. It's soooooo damn boring. It's really just a grinding game now.
Loool they're already scared??
Yay more cars I can't get unless I spend a lot of money
Cool but EA already ruined the series, plus Asphalt 8 is out....
It's still a great game, unfortunately EA got their hands on it. I'm cringing on what they will do to Madden 14 !
I already got hands on the new madden and you will absolutely hate it
RR2 was a fantastic game as everyone knows. I was hyped about RR3, once they went freemium I just saw disappointment. However even after all the talk about iAP they still seem to be doing pretty well for themselves. So people out there are splashing the cash. Hate to see what RR4 will be like
Hooray! Yet more cars that, even with purchases, I'm 40+ placings away from even being able to unlock.
This game has IAP so wrong when it pitches me sale items that I have no option to buy even with real $.
Trashed this trash months ago.
I'm looking forward to driving the '67 Cobra, but these cars definitely feel out of place in the game. Much like the original Chargers, they are basically limited to their own series because I guess they don't fit in with any other cars in the game.
It's even more painfully evident when you consider the game's recent addition of PR ratings. The '71 Challenger and the '69 Charger have PR ratings of 0.2 and 1.9, respectively. Considering the other recent -- and useless -- addition of the Chevy Cobalt has a PR rating of 3.7 puts it into perspective, I think.
Sadly, I missed out on my only chance to get the '66 Cobra at a discount since I only recently played through the V8 Naturals series. When I got the update, the car was just available as the 4th car in that series.