Card-based Madden Ultimate Team mode coming in January

ya know, not really a horrible idea...

Madden meets Pokemon?!?

I guess it's perfect for the fantasy football players. My only question is do the cards last longer than 1 season?

They did this with UEFA Champions League soccer game a couple years ago, it was actually a lot of fun

There's an MLB card game. I see no reason this can't work.

Brett Favre, I choose you!

they used to have the card games in madden, so I don't see why this is such a HUGE shock.

This sounds awesome. I always liked collecting Madden cards back in the day. This is kind of a combination of that and the Fantasy Challenge mode that had on PS2 in 08. (Maybe 09 and 10, too... I jumped ship for ps3 at that point.)

Is this an in game monetary system for winning games/acheivements or is this a "here is my credit card number" system?

The reason I ask is the Y option on the bottom of the screen "Add Coins".

they did this with FIFA 09 (last year) and it was a LOTTTT of fun. In fifa you actually played the game with the players you collect. it wasn't like a simmed game or anything silly. It also makes them TONS of money as they'll probably sell the packs for either in- game points earned by playing OR for MS points.

it was quite annoying because the gold packs in fifa were $1 or 5000 points. Playing very well you could get 700-1000 points per game, but a game took around 10 min and you had to buy contract cards to make sure your players kept playing for you, so that would end up costing you some of the coins when you played.

So basically it was about 1hour for 5000 points or $1. A lot of people chose the $1 method, including myself a couple of times.

What do you get when you cross Madden with Pokemon? Here's Michael Vick with the answer...

why you gotta hate, joystiiq?
this looks cool..

This is exactly what ea did to FIFA 09 with ultimate team mode and man i spent a crap load of money on these cards on FIFA. Not so exited this is the first year i didn't buy a madden game and I'm standing my ground on that.