re: NCAA FOOTBALL IS IN MADDEN 18

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Those experiences are largely built around playing through a particular sport’s regular season; games in the schedule are interspersed with cutscenes. That’s not how Madden 18’s story mode works. “All of the games within Longshot, none of them are the main character playing a 2017 NFL schedule,” Young explained in an interview with Polygon this week. “This is a story about getting to the NFL.”

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“Our philosophy [with Longshot] was a playable movie, versus, like, a career mode with cutscenes,” he said.

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Devin and Colt both start at the Regional Combines, and they eventually get an opportunity to start on a path toward the NFL. Longshot runs from there up to the NFL Draft — no further.

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Longshot brings in some features that longtime Madden fans will recall, like training minigames...to include quick-time events and branching dialogue choices...seven-on-seven training drills without pads, and flashbacks to high school games.

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