Gamers can use collectible cards to decide which is the best

Mar 2, 2015 22:46 GMT  ·  By

The National Football League season might be over, but the development team at EA Sports is working hard to keep the player community engaged with the title in the long term, with a new event for the Ultimate Team mode designed around teams created by ESPN experts Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo and players like Rob Gronkowski, Jeremy Maclin and Demaryius Thomas.

The official line-ups for their teams are now live and gamers will have to vote on their favorites after evaluating the players they have chosen, so that in the end a team and its coach emerge victorious.

In order to vote, gamers will have to use Collectible Cards for Ultimate Team for Madden NFL 15 that can be added to one of five sets.

They are gained by logging in for the first time when the vote is active and by playing some Solo Challenges.

Once the voting ends, gamers will be able to log in so that they get a bonus player chosen from the team that was the most popular.

The official announcement adds, "The NFL player coaches will be calling in to SVP & Russillo on ESPN Radio throughout the contest to campaign for votes. Each day, they’ll be discussing the vote and providing exclusive voting result updates."

The Madden NFL 15 site has a full list of all the included players for all five teams, and fans of the game will certainly spend hours debating which choices are the best in both the game and the real world.

The future of the American football sim is linked to events and content drops

EA Sports is at the moment also adding more players to the Ultimate Team mode, with weekly initiatives linked to Rookies, positional players and Legends.

The company needs to introduce more choices for players in order to make sure that they continue to play the American football sim even if there are no real world matches to motivate them.

A new title in the Madden series will probably be launched as usual in late August and the first details about its mechanics and core concepts will be introduced in time for the E3 2015 event.

Ultimate Team will be one of the main game modes to get upgrades, given how popular it has been for the past few months.

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