CCC: I'm going to go ahead and get something out of the way right now: I do not play yearly sports games every year. To put it more simply, I do not rush out to buy the latest new franchise title to compare how many hairs Aaron Rodgers has on his chin from year to year. This doesn't mean, however, that I don't want to play each and every yearly incarnation in the many sports titles I love.
The thing about yearly sports titles is that everyone wants them. They are like a collective trading card game; whenever a new set comes out, even if the new feature is only something small and trivial, people have to have it. Like a gambling obsession, the Madden series always has something up its sleeve to make you want more. Hell, without Madden, I doubt so many people would be into the Fantasy Football league. After all, Madden gives you an opportunity to craft your fantasies of football like no one else.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "This is the sixth entry in a series of articles I’m writing that will look at all of the games available in a particular genre on the Vita. The articles will highlight all Vita-native games, as well as any backwards-compatible PSP and PS1 titles that can be downloaded in English (i.e. from the EU or NA stores), and will include some commentary on how well those games run on Vita and whether they fill any missing gaps in the library."
In many ways, this past console generation was a brutal one for sports video games. While other genres flourished, sports gamers were subjected to an irreversible thinning of the herd, losing MLB 2K, 2K Sports football, NHL 2K, both NCAA basketball franchises, and seeing arcade sports games all but vanish. Competition, which breeds innovation, is weaker than ever. But that’s not to say some standout games didn’t arrive as well.
TG writes: Want to know who's going to win Sunday's big game? I'll tell you. It's not going to be the Broncos or the Seahawks. It's going to be John Madden.
Who ever wrote this must live in Denver. I know it's Legal there now but don't smoke too much. It may cause insanity.
