When I concluded my review of Madden 17, I challenged Electronic Arts to make something worth coming back year after year. It’s not that I don’t like football video games, it’s that I don’t like paying $60 year after year for the same football video game with minor improvements. Given the little improvements year after year, it feels more and more baffling why Madden isn’t just a $20 update (answer: people buy it for $60). This year it actually attempts to make you think that things under the hood are changed.
First is its much touted Frostbite Engine.