[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Farzin

I'm guessing you haven't heard. I just discovered this today when I turned on my PS3.


Your being given football cards of players. All players are consisted of backups. The only Chiefs player I have is CB Mike Richardson. At the start, you are given a free set of cards. I also got former Chiefs, Michael Bennett (pretty damn good against backups) and Jordan Black.

No one will receive a Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Jared Allen, Brett Favre, or Randy Moss type of card at the beginning. You are also given an offensive and defensive playbook, along with a home stadium, away and home jerseys and a head coach (I was unfortunate enough to get Tom Cable, but the 49ers playbook has been good for me.)

Once you have the football cards you have to win games. If you play online against other real players and win and perform well, you'll get lots of coins, depending on how well you do.

You can use the coins to buy a set of cards. You can also spend them on "special offers." The first special offer release is Jerome Harrison for his monster game VS KC. I had enough coins to buy him (his rating on Ultimate Madden is a 98) with a high speed. Since most teams have crappy players on defense, Harrison recently rushed over 400 yards against an Ultimate Madden team. There are only 162 cards of Harrison remaining on the PS3 version. Jamaal Charles will be the next "special offer" card for his performance vs Denver. His card is worth 1000 coins. Derrick Johnson will be a week after Charles for his week 17 MVP performance (which is what the description says for DJ.) A week after DJ, Brian Cushing comes out for his DROY. After him, it's Percy Harvin for his OROY.

Pretty fun overall. Like I said earlier, I just hate the contracts.

Do you only get coins for winning games against online opponents?

Does the game cost anything to start?