This game is terrible. The AI for the game controlled players is ...
936248
This game is terrible.  The AI for the game controlled players is so horrific that it's not worth playing.  I hope 15 is better but I'll never know because I won't waste another dollar on this franchise.
22437
I've played 2K the past 7 years (and Live before that), and this year is a major disappointment.  AI issues are still a major problem and yet again they've failed to ship the game with realistic game settings.  You can adjust the settings to actually make sense, but that should NOT be something the customer has to do.  Did they even play this game before shipping it out?

Another reviewer had it right - they paid way too much attention to presentation rather than substance.  The visuals and player likenesses are incredible, but once you get past the pretty cover it's the same BS all over again.

In short, you can make this game right by playing with settings (same as with previous years).  The main reason behind the low rating is that the customer is forced to do their job for them.  If it was just a matter of changing one thing then it would be acceptable.  However you will have to adjust EVERYTHING to make the game at least somewhat realistic.
2993606
I'm going to get straight to the point on why I stopped playing this game after 5 hours: the military aspect of the game is poorly developed.

The player can create a general and assign forces to his army.  Building an army takes time and resources.  Once the army is assembled you can attack your enemy.  Unfortunately, the player has no control over the battle and the outcome.  What's frustrating is that you can't figure out how to have an advantage over a battle.  Meaning that you can have 15 professional units attack a village guarded by 5 militia, and have your army completely wiped out.

At one point, I decided to save the game right before a battle and rerun the battle multiple times.  The outcomes where drastically different every time, which leads me to believe that the calculations behind the battle decision are either screwed up or are completely random.  This is insanely frustrating.
2263923
AI is horrendous and the game is not as advertised. The battles are still fun though, even if they're easy.
2832974
The game doesn't provide a lot of guidance, as the previous reviewer stated, but worse, the AI doesn't work well - it doesn't stop vehicles to allow planes to go by (what -they can't see a 747 bearing down on them?), and the screen layout pulls out plane data - required to board and fuel the plane, but the data blocks the view of critical parts of the game - and when clicking on certain functions, it actually activates the link behind the box being clicked to pull up another map screen.  Really, really poorly thought out - it might be fun if some of the problems were corrected, but I couldn't get past the problems.
3337389
Even after reading all the "mediocre rating" reviews of gaming sites, I still opted to try it. Dumb move. Even on the easiest setting, while prone, while above them, they were shooting/killing before I even saw them. The AI is just too skewed in the enemy's favor. They see you when they shouldn't and they never miss...EVER. Just as the reviews said, imagine that.

So you can believe the ones that say this is a great game or you can believe the game testers at Gamespot, etc that have panned it for its terrible AI. Just don't say you weren't warned.
2208551
All this game has is graphics, and that's about it. The controls are horrible, and the gameplay is even worse. It kinda felt like I was watching pee-wee football while playing this game. I must say I was highly disappointed with this game,judging by the excellent job EA did with previous years of the Madden series. Trust me save yourself the money and do not rent or buy this game.
3644032
This game sucks, its as foolish as those people who play video games on a computer, here is why.

1. Frame rate is terrible drops from 30 fps to 5 fps all the time, its like trying to play GTA 5 on the Atari 2600
2. No good music, they have your generic zombie music. No Eminem or Taylor swift or nothing
3. Poor geometry, If you love falling through geometry and getting stuck then you are going to love this game
4. Short night time, in this game it is only night time for like 3 mins. I am not kidding!
5. Zombies transform at night which is okay and all but last time i checked, zombies go to sleep at night not turn into stronger variants.
6. This game has sluggish movements similar to Dead island ( The game they are stealing from)
7. Unlikeable characters, Just like dead island, the people in the game are only here for the sole purpose of bossing you around.
8. Graphics aren't that good
9. Limited guns and bullets, so you are force to use a blunt weapon all the time
10. Lag
700909
This game is awesome as i stated. But i totally agree the AI in this game is terrible.
THIS GAME SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED IF YOU INTEND TO PLAY ONLINE WITH FRIENDS OR THE ONLINE COMMUNITY!

Gun customization is great and on a nice T.V. this game is beautiful

Overall a good buy over the other games out right now.
853790
I was totally shocked that Sony released this game to the public.

It is buggy, AI is ridiculous.  This game took 4 years apparently.  Although it looks they spent 6months on this game.

The graphics remind me of dreamcast graphics.  The gameplay is well below par.

I expected a Halo killer, and I got a bat and ball game instead.

I would possibly rent this before wasting money on such rubbish.

A total let down for PS2 fans.  I will now place my hopes on GT
221098
I am now in the middle of a complex, wide-ranging attack with a close order of battle in the late stages of a game. The stupid software in this game insists on jerking me around all over the map with its own ideas about what moves should be scheduled next instead of the ones I want to make to keep track of what I'm doing where. And the moment I do something, it jerks me away to somewhere irrelevant so that I can't gauge effects. In addition, despite the powerful computer on which I'm playing, the time required between turns is exasperatingly long, long, long. In other words, this game is slow, clumsy, and badly ordered as it becomes more complex. I'm very disappointed. I've been routinely playing Civilization games for maybe 25 years, but this might just be the end of it. Dammit.
854873
This game is absolutely abysmal and a complete embarrassment to the technical capabilities of the PSMove. A Wii game would play better than this.

When you see a brand new game utilizing brand new tech, the mere fact that it has been marked down to $19.99 is an instant red flag, and this game is a perfect example of that.

The motion tracking is so bad that it is almost impossible to accurately hit the ball/birdie/what-have-you. You also have no control over where your character moves other than attempting to point the Move controller in the same direction as the arrow under your character's feet.

Do not buy this game. It is awful, it is infuriating and it is not worth $1, much less $19-$50.

Do yourself a favor and spend your money on Sports Champions instead, likely the BEST motion-controlled game EVER to date.
2229393
The graphics are laughable, the enemy AI is rediculous and the game itself is nothing like the game that has been advertised for the past six years. I am willing to bet that given six years a group of highly trained monkeys could make a better game. This honestly should not happen in 2013, by now the standards for video game quality have been set, and this just laughs in the face of all of them. I am only giving it 2 stars because it was technically a game and i was just barely able to play through the bug ridden campaign. But i must say, what a waste of 45 dollars, never again gearbox.
2625537
Players are not different enough cause you only get Tiger.
I dislike how putting is done.
Too many arcade elements for a "sim" game.
CPU AI is not worth playing against.
186598
This is very difficult to play and not very realistic. The announcers suck and the movements of the players aren't lifelike. The run like they have to poop and throw like they are throwing for the first time. Madden has steadily gone down hill the past few years. There needs to be another competitor to compete with them because madden is getting way to cocky. They are making no improvements and you are basically buying the same game every year. Although they add a bunch of "new" stuff, it makes the game worse.

I would pass on this one
1648190
Terrible character control. Stiff and non-intuitive. The game is scary because you can't move. The horror is trying to play. It's the only game I haven't finished in years.
1601406
I would say $5 woud be too much to pay for this. The whole thing plays terrible. The pathing is awful. It doesn't feel like your even playing a military game. They could change the bradleys to dragons and the rpgs to elves with ballistas and the game would still play the same (it would be crappy). The victory conditions make no sense. There are victory locations on the map, but the game ends when a large enough percent of the either sides force are destroyed. This means if you take no casualties and inflict %90 casualties on the enemy you will loose if you are not sitting right on the victory locations at the exact moment your enemies force falls below this threshold. Even if there is still 30 minutes on the clock. So in other wards don't kill too many enemies unless you are sitting right on top of the victory locations (just like in real life where both sides stop fighting no matter what when either side has less than 20 percent of their original force they then go home and count up the flags to determine the battles winner, right?) Talk about poor game design. Even the modern Combat Mission game is better than this, and im not a big fan of it. They try to sell you this game by saying its used by the military to train soldiers. I guess the military wastes all kinds of money. I find it hard to believe anyone would benfit from playing this game. Its awful don't buy it. Don't just refrain from buying it, send the publisher a profanity laced email for having the audacity to attempt to sell it to you.