![]() Add all of that up plus the absurd time it takes to execute a play (especially on the higher difficulty settings) and you’ve got yourself one heck of a frustrating football experience. It only serves to make passing more difficult, and hinders Madden’s offensive game rather than enhance it. I understand the realistic purpose of this new feature but it just doesn’t work here. The vision cone will always be facing straight ahead after the snap giving the defence the obvious signal to rush the QB for an easy sack. The QB Vision is also a problem during certain plays, for example: draw plays. ![]() However, with the QB Vision turned off, you’re basically playing Madden 05, so why bother with 06’s £39.99 price tag when you can get 05 for half the price? Option 2: flick the analogue stick left and right to move the cone around and confuse the defence before passing to the receiver to make the play. Option 1: Toss the ball to a player outside of the vision cone, causing either an interception, or the most frequent scenario, an overthrown ball (and when I mean overthrown, I mean nowhere near the receiver). The problem here is that as soon as you move the vision cone over to an open receiver, the defence will quickly scramble over to that player in an attempt to intercept the football, leaving you with only a few options. Then toss the ball and pray that the defence hasn’t read your play already. The QB Vision works like this: As soon as the ball is snapped, a vision cone will appear over the field, which you can move towards any receiver with the right analogue stick. Well, if the passing game wasn’t broke before, with the inclusion of QB Vision, it sure is now. Instead of focusing on its defence, EA chose to concentrate on improving Madden’s offensive game – more specifically – the passing game, which has been left relatively untouched because, and I swore I would never use this clichè in a review, if it aint broke, don’t fix it. Don’t get me wrong, Madden is Madden and will always be a quality football franchise, but if there were one year you absolutely had to skip out on, it would have to be 2006. I’ll give credit to EA for managing to pump out a solid grid-iron experience every year for the past decade, but we all knew it would happen – the series would eventually fumble (There, I’ve reached my one-clichèd-pun-per-review quota). The latest entry, Madden 06, is home to a number of additions that fall into that “looked better on paper” category, with the most notable feature-gone-awry being the QB Vision, which I’ll get to shortly. With the competition gone and the next generation drawing ever so near, EA Sports has gotten lazy – or rather, decided to experiment with its beloved franchise. For the most part, this trend has continued throughout the years, hence why Madden is a million seller despite stiff competition from the NFL 2K series and its bargain price (which ceases to exist now thanks to EA’s acquisition of the NFL license). ![]() Every year Madden comes back with a fresh new take on the sport and every year we’re treated with an innovation of some sort that enhances the football experience.
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