Madden NFL 13
| Madden NFL 13 | |
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Cover art featuring Calvin Johnson Jr.
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| Developer(s) | EA Tiburon |
| Publisher(s) | EA Sports |
| Composer(s) | Colin O'Malley |
| Series | Madden NFL |
| Engine | Infinity |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita Wii Wii U Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
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Single-player Multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PS3) 83.57% (X360) 83.49% (Wii U) 75.30% (Wii) 72.50% (Vita) 63.33% |
| Metacritic | (PS3) 83/100 (X360) 81/100 (Wii U) 75/100 (Wii) 73/100 (Vita) 63/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 8/10 |
| EGM | 8/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 8.25/10 |
| Game Revolution |   |
| GameSpot | 7.5/10 (Vita) 5.5/10 |
| GameTrailers | 8.2/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 9/10 (Wii U) 8.3/10 (Vita) 6/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Nintendo Power | (Wii U) 8/10 (Wii) 6.5/10 |
| OXM (US) | 7.5/10 |
| Polygon | 8/10 |
| PSM | (PS3) 9/10 (Vita) 7/10 |
Madden NFL 13 is an American football video game based on the National Football League, published by EA Sports and developed by EA Tiburon. EA's Chief Creative Officer, Richard Hilleman, said that defense would receive various changes in mechanics and controls, one of the first known changes in the game. Part of the Madden NFL series, the game was released in 2012. For the first time in the series, the game was officially released in Brazil, due to the explosive growth of the sport in the country. The relocation process was removed for Madden 13.
A 64-player fan vote tournament to determine the cover athlete began on March 7, 2012. The vote-in round matched up a pair of teammates from each of the 32 NFL teams, the winners of which were seeded in a 32-player bracket. The cover features Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions.
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After the success of the Madden NFL 12 cover vote, EA Sports again teamed up with ESPN's fan polling show SportsNation to bring the tournament back for this year's installment. The tournament began with a 64-player vote-in round, during which fans were able to select from two players representing each NFL team. The teammates went head-to-head in a voting competition to see which player would qualify for the actual tournament bracket. By the end of the 64-player vote-in round, the number of competitors was cut down to 32 players, with one player from each team. Due to offseason player movement, however, the New York Jets and New England Patriots began the tournament with two players, while the Denver Broncos and St. Louis Rams were unrepresented. This occurred because during the vote-in round (March 7–21) Tim Tebow was traded by the Broncos to the Jets after Denver acquired Peyton Manning, and Brandon Lloyd left the Rams to sign with the Patriots. Both Tebow and Lloyd, who had previously been teammates in Denver, were eliminated in the first round. The initial bracket featured 3 players who had previously appeared on the cover of Madden (no player has been featured twice): Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints (11), Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers (10), and Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals (who appeared with Polamalu on the cover of 10). Fitzgerald eliminated Polamalu in the first round, while Brees was eliminated by the Ravens' Ray Rice in the second round.
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