Madden NFL 22 Review: 4 Ups & 5 Downs

3. MUT Is Still MUT

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Madden Ultimate Team didn't get a ton of changes this year. The mode is arguably easier to get into than it used to be, but it won't lure in those who view the whole exercise as a microtransaction-heavy slog that's only trying to prize open the pursestrings and get players to spend even more cash.

EA are pretty brazen about this.

The whole Madden suite is geared towards getting you onto MUT. Invasive pop-ups litter the main menus, and they come across as the gaming equivalent of buying a meal at a restaurant and having to pick carefully-placed pieces of cardboard advertising for other courses off before eating. That, as you'd imagine, is tiresome.

Enjoying the product you've already bought should be enough. EA don't need to pop their heads round the door during other modes and effectively say, 'Hey, glad you're having fun, but have you thought about giving Ultimate Team a go?'. Or, at least, they shouldn't do that.

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