Madden NFL Football

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Madden NFL Football
Madden 3DS logo.jpg
Logo for Madden NFL Football
Developer(s) EA North Carolina
Publisher(s) EA Sports
Series Madden NFL
Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • NA: March 22, 2011
  • EU: March 25, 2011
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player
multiplayer

Madden NFL Football (sometimes mislabeled as Madden NFL 3D [1] ) is a 2011 sports video game developed by EA North Carolina and published by EA Sports for the Nintendo 3DS. [2] [3] First images of the game were shown by IGN in February 2011. [4] The game was released as a launch title for the Nintendo 3DS on March 22, 2011, in North America (whereas the release date had been scheduled for March 27, at first [5] ).

Contents

Features

The game inherits features from past Madden games. Other than the traditional 11-on-11, the game also features a 5-on-5 mode, returning from Madden NFL 09 All-Play on the Wii. The 5-on-5 mode can also be used in Season Mode. [6] The game also features GameFlow, a feature from Madden NFL 11 where the AI automatically selects the play depending on the game situation. [7] Players also can select whether or not to include GameFlow, or play with an arcade version. Standard versions are also available. [8] From Madden NFL 10 , also from the Wii, is Spotlight Moment, where the game goes into slow motion whenever a critical event occurs. [9] [10] Also from the Wii games, players can Call Your Shots, where players press the Y button to call their own routes for the receivers. [11]

Reception

The game was met with very mixed to negative reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 50%, [12] while Metacritic gave it 49 out of 100. [13]

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