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Originally Posted by FatherMukada
Just wanted to see if anyone else here is into using sports sims for purely a "franchise" type experience, it's all I get them for. Was thinking of picking up the new Madden, but is it the best of the year from just a franchise mode point of view? How about for hockey, baseball and basketball? Especially in baseball I can't find one I really like on X-Box and ended up using OOTP baseball on the PC this year, which is great but without graphics.
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I have both Madden 2005 and ESPN 2k5 (though I haven't even opened ESPN yet, too busy playing Madden). I'm very happy with the new Maddne franchise mode. 1st round picks are no longer overvalued in trades like they used to be - you have to give up players and picks to get a quality player from another team. I'm not quite as sold on the new player signing system - it makes it very difficult to keep good backups, as a good number of quality backups get upset about not playing. The new newspaper system is nice, as is the email system. The player ratings will get VERY high very quickly at first, and will get really high (for your team that is) if you play all your regular season games. One thing I've noticed is that after a good number of years of franchise play there seems to be a lot of players rated around 90 overall, with few 95+ rated (fewer than the games default rosters include, anyways) players. The only exception to this rule is quarterbacks and fullbacks - they seem to go up and stay up rating wise.
I've heard that ESPN has more options for injury rehabilitation than madden does, but I always turn injuries off so I couldn't comment on those features.