As we hope you are aware today, 3rd February, is Super Bowl Sunday and will see either the Baltimore Ravens or San Francisco 49ers crowned Super Bowl XLVII champions, in America’s biggest sporting event! No matter who you are supporting, or if you are going to play video games instead, here is a special blog post featuring American Football games. Time to eat some football shaped Oreos.
Madden NFL 13
This video game has been talked about a lot recently in the sporting world, this is because people are looking at this game to predict a winner for today’s event. Featured on the TIME website as number one for “Super Bowl XLVII: 9 Wacky Ways of Predicting the Winner”
Madden NFL 13 – Ravens
“This annual bellwether is played not on the gridiron, but on the couch. The Madden gurus pitted the two teams against each other, in a game of Madden 13on an Xbox 360. Final score? Ravens 27, 49ers 24. Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco was crowned MVP after completing 70% of his passes and tossing two touchdowns. Sure, it’s just a video game but it’s a painstakingly accurate one: Madden’s simulation has successfully predicted seven out of the last nine Super Bowls, and came within two points of predicting the exact final score of Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.”
Of course we will see how accurate this is tonight but right now it’s time to focus on the Madden NFL 13 game itself. To see the final few seconds of this gameplay see the video clip at the end of this post.
Madden is available in stores now for Xbox 360, PS3, Vita, Wii, Wii U, Madden NFL 13 Social is also available on iPhone, iPad and Facebook. This is very good news for all Vita gamers as Madden NFL 13 is the first Madden game to be released on the PlayStation Vita, as well as this it is also the first game in the series to have Kinect support for Xbox gamers.
With a player capacity of 1-4, and online multi-player capacity of 2-6. This game redefines its previous, with an all new game design and, new pass-ready system and improved play action. This game has set out to entice us, especially if you have played a Madden game before. This game also features a new read and react defensive AI system which is the most intelligent pass defense to date, Madden NFL 13. This game has some impressive real style virtual frame work. This game certainly has come along way since it was first released in 1989.
IGN quote;
“Madden NFL 13 revolutionizes the way sports video game career modes are played with Connected Careers—a completely new and fully connected universe defined by deep gameplay, unique storylines and social integration. The game continues to evolve the sport sim experience with cutting-edge Infinity Engine technology, revolutionary Connected Careers and a complete audio and visual overhaul that delivers best in class presentation.”
Madden 13 Game Cover
Cover Art
On the game cover we see a very realistic looking Calvin Johnson, known to many as Detroit Lions wide receiver.
John Madden Football 1989
Pre 1993 the EA Sports American football video game series was known as John Madden Football. Named after pro footballer and Super Bowl winning coach, John Madden.
Game play footage Madden ’89
Super Bowl 2013 Predictions: Ravens vs. 49ers in Super Bowl 47
Sources;
IGN (2012) Madden NFL 13 (PlayStation 3). [online] Available at: http://uk.ign.com/games/madden-nfl-13/ps3-128098 [Accessed: 3 Feb 2013].
Unknown. (2013) TIME. [online] Available at: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/29/super-bowl-2013-9-wacky-ways-of-predicting-the-winner/#ixzz2JpXpgO3V [Accessed: 3 Feb 2013].
YouTube (2013) Super Bowl 2013 Predictions: Ravens vs. 49ers in Super Bowl 47. [online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3WWFpzbhX5o#! [Accessed: 3 Feb 2013].
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