![]() ![]() Last year’s game suffered from frame rate issues on consoles. It’s a polished, impressive package-so much so that when my eight-year-old daughter wandered in while the game was introducing my team’s offense, she was utterly convinced I was watching a real NFL matchup, not playing a game. Cuts to stats and live gameplay analysis occur between snaps. After a game-changing play, Madden 19 oftentimes flows naturally into a replay while the commentators share something unique about that particular player. Madden 19 excels at truly feeling like an NFL broadcast between plays, leaning on clever camera angles and far more natural, responsive commentary than what was available when I last played Madden a decade ago. The overall presentation of the game deserves particular praise. Madden 19 on PC is the definitive way to play. No, it’s not the prettiest game ever released, and I’ve encountered some of the series’ long-standing camera oddities and clipping issues, but you’ve never seen an NFL game this beautiful. Once you’re ready for kickoff, Madden 19 looks gorgeous on the PC if you’ve got enough firepower to throw at it. EA also gets bonus points for letting the scroll wheel change camera angles, too. ![]() It takes a bit of practice to wrap your head around the scheme, but once you do, the virtual thumbsticks emulate the range of movement and pressure-sensitive speed of physical joysticks pretty effectively. (Think of a safety creeping toward the line of scrimmage pre-snap.) Move the mouse farther and players pick up speed. When you slowly move the mouse just a little bit, the player you’re controlling saunters in the same direction. It appears as a small circle in the right corner of the screen, with an arrow inside pointing toward a direction. WASD controls can’t mimic the pressure-sensitive nuance of a controller’s thumbsticks, so rather than tying movement to the keyboard, Madden 19 includes a “virtual thumbstick” managed by your mouse. The keyboard and mouse controls hold up surprisingly well after a bit of practice. You can see the virtual thumbstick to the right of the quarterback in this image. ![]() But the lack of HDR support is a bummer considering that a post-launch patch added the feature to last year’s Madden 18 on consoles. The windows modes are limited to full-screen or windowed, for example-no borderless for you! The basics you’d expect are all present and accounted for, though, including support for 4K resolutions, V-Sync, and 30-fps, 60-fps, or uncapped frame rates. Madden 19 gives you control over a decent amount of graphics options for a sports game, though it’s far from extensive. Madden 18 suffered from some frame rate issues on the consoles, but Madden 19 on modern PC hardware doesn’t whatsoever. Yes, I said 4K resolution and 90 frames per second. I’ve been playing at 4K resolution on an AMD Ryzen 1800X ($240 on Amazon) and an EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2 ($750 on Amazon) and the frame rate usually hovers around 90 fps during on the field action. That level of hardware will match the console experience, EA says, though like with most PC games, ramping up the horsepower can push the game even further. CPU: Core i3-4350, FX-4330, or equivalentĮA’s recommended specs are largely similar, but boost the GPU requirements to the equivalent of a GeForce GTX 670 or Radeon R9 270X.GPU: GeForce GTX 660, Radeon RX 460, or equivalent. ![]()
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