Madden NFL 12

Madden NFL 12 Review

For better or worse, Madden NFL on Wii has made numerous, significant changes to its formula over the last few years. It evolves significantly each year, which is more than the other versions of Madden can say. But for Madden NFL 12, EA Tiburon improved a few of the features, without adding anything new. For the first time, Madden on Wii just feels like a roster update. Not to say that Madden NFL 12 is a bad game, it's actually pretty good. In fact it improves on a lot of aspects from last year. Madden NFL 12 still features the more stylistic, simplified approach to football, with both 5vs5 and 11vs11 modes, as well as a Franchise mode that feels like Madden mixed with a SimCity. However, the experience feels fundamentally the same. On the improvement front, you can finally play Madden with the Classic Controller, making it feel more like its counterpart on the 360 and PS3. For those of you that liked waggling the Wii Remote to catch, or using the pointer to make passes, those controls stay intact. The rest of us, though, now have a non-motion based alternative control scheme. Franchise mode got beefed up a bit with some new features.