Madden 2013: Connected Careers Is Worthy Addition to Hit Video Game Franchise

Even more than the Thursday night game that kicks off the season, fans know that the NFL season has started when they get their hands on the newest copy of Madden.

The first thing anyone wants to do is get a look at new features that are added, and this year's has one of the most important to come along in years. 

Connected Careers has been presented to fans as a way to immerse yourself in the game whenever you want, even if you aren't near your video game system. 

The EA Sports website describes the feature as living "the dream—whenever you want, wherever you want in a fully interactive, social, and connected online experience."

We live in a world of social connectivity, so it is only natural that EA Sports would want to take advantage of the situation. 

What Connected Careers does is takes that idea and breaks down all the doors. You have the ability to take control of a current, former or created player and play their entire career. You are in control of everything that happens to this virtual player, which makes it a huge change. 

EA Sports has used legendary teams and players in past iterations of the game, but never do you get to handle the career arc for them. It is usually just a collection of talent that you can play in a singular game with no real depth or substance. 

By adding this new game mode, EA Sports is giving fans something truly unique and special to give this a different feel to a game franchise that is so popular it doesn't have to change anything to sell truckloads of copies. 

Several features that EA Sports have introduced to the franchise have a long and lasting impact on future iterations of the game. Things like the Hit Stick changed the way the game is being played. 

Connected Careers, while not a feature directly involving gameplay, is a mode that can change things for the better, just as Hit Stick did in 2005. 

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