{"id":4031,"date":"2012-08-29T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2012-08-29T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:53:10","slug":"madden-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/08\/29\/madden-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed.  Many moons ago I would have written a few pre anticipating Madden release articles, and of course the obligatory \u201cit\u2019s shipped!\u201d an \u201cit\u2019s out of delivery!\u201d and a \u201cMadden has arrived\u201d articles.  Then I would have put in a few games and posted some early impressions.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, Madden 13 (PS3) arrived late in the day; in fact I was out at the soccer fields coaching my 10 year-old son\u2019s team when UPS or FedEx (I didn\u2019t bother to check which one; yet again another sign of the times) threw the package along with the Ratchet & Clank Collection on the front door.<\/p>\n<p>For now I decided to pass on the Vita game.  I\u2019m sure I will enjoy it, but honestly there is only a limited amount of time I have for gaming, much less playing football games.  Case in point, I\u2019m actually putting NCAA 13 up on eBay this weekend.  I figure the Vita version can wait.<\/p>\n<p>I sent a few minutes with Madden Ultimate Team (MUT), which is sort of my hidden passion, which I try to avoid as much as possible so I do not inadvertently throw chunks of money at virtual football cards.  Unless I am missing something, it looks like EA has decided to start your team anew.  I had a couple of rookie cards carry over from MUT 12 based on preordering Madden 13.  And I have 5 rewards packs.  I was too tired to see if my coins carried over, and I didn\u2019t open the packs because I know my boys would like to see what cards I received.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped back to the main menu and I played one quick game; first impressions were that graphics look much better and the new physics engine was convincing.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone interested, I setup a calvertgames community (search calvertgames or CG).  Feel free to join.  I\u2019m not really much of an online gamer which means I will probably not push for the Platinum this year, but at least wanted to create a community for my boys and their friends.<\/p>\n<p>More to come later; just in time for Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed. Many moons ago I would have written a few pre anticipating Madden release articles, and of course the obligatory \u201cit\u2019s shipped!\u201d an \u201cit\u2019s out of delivery!\u201d and a \u201cMadden has arrived\u201d articles. Then I would have put in a few games and posted some early impressions. First of all, Madden 13 (PS3) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/08\/29\/madden-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,9],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}