Every July, NCAA comes out to wet our appetites for football and every August, Madden delivers the full featured thrill of the virtual gridiron.  In other words, NCAA is always the appetizer to the main course that is Madden.  Yet something strange has happened in 2010, NCAA ’11 stepped on the scene and was greeted with much praise from gamers and critics alike.  Everyone used the new NCAA game as a baseline for how great Madden would be this year, since for years NCAA has always been one step behind its big brother.   So it would’ve seemed to everyone that since NCAA was so good this year, that surely Madden would be the best iteration that we’ve had this generation.  Madden ’11 arrived a month later with a loud and thunderous…..thud.  What could have possibly gone wrong?  After all, the two games are both developed by Tiburon, albeit two different design teams, and sharing some of the same “new” technology/features (locomotion, run blocking, etc.) for the first time that I can remember.

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