 24 superstar mode. Electronic Arts took a page out of 2K's playbook this year. The League is basically my career and Showdown is basically parked. So they really didn't just take a page out of the book, it kind of plagiarized the whole thing. But I'm not complaining because this is an amazing step in the right direction. So you can create your superstar in the League. You can be a quarterback, a half back, a wide receiver, a linebacker, or a DB. You can upgrade your skills, upgrade your attributes, attach abilities, X-Fackers. And then you can take that player into Showdown, the new 3V3 mode. If you're interested in seeing the career mode aspect of this, I'm doing a full career mode on MMG Live. I'll link that video at the end of this, but for now, we're gonna play Showdown. So I'm a 77 overall half back. Obviously I've got some work to do to upgrade that, but I still think it's more than enough. It's honestly very straightforward. 3V3, first one to 21 points wins. So if I wanted to be quarterback, I'd only be a 70 overall, but if I choose rowing back, I'm a 77. Obviously I'm still not a very good coverage DB. The two players you get paired up with are random generated mind, just Lamar and Jaylen Ramsey. I don't mind that at all. Got a cover. Oh shit. I'm manning up his guy and he completely torched me. Does he juke here? Oh yep, I knew it was coming. Go work, go work. He's gonna motion over. He's a lot taller than me though. He's a lot taller than me. Oh, I see the route. I'm there. Good defense, good defense. That's audible to zone. I can actually switch off too. I can use their Jaylen Ramsey if I choose. I'm gonna do that. Much better DB than 5'11 Matthew Maher. Right down the stripe. I got the IMT. If you get a lateral touchdown, you get an additional point as well and you get two for the interception. That's a great start for us. Let's try and get open here. I'm gonna run a nice little corner out. Got his ass. Is that a tutty? On the first play? Go, damn. I got rock. Trying to dive in there, but we're so close. That's audible to a run play. We're just trying to make a move here. Let's go. Damn, dog shit. We can't sell, right? Yes, sir. The Maher feeds me. And we're in. Wait for the selly. Wait for the selly. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Boom, that's a strike, baby. Who do you think you are? I am. In career mode, you can actually change like your animations, your celebrations, literally just like 2K, which I think is awesome. Gonna go for the two point attempt here. The more points you want, the deeper back you gotta go. Lamar is just gonna throw a check down out route. Let's have a little situational awareness, Lamar. Uh-oh, uh-oh, I'm torched. Oh, thank God he didn't throw that. I'm gonna go on Jaylen Ramsey here. Let my boy play his own. He'll probably throw to himself underneath. Good tackle, Jaylen Ramsey. No. It's great defense. I almost got a pick. Lock up, lock up, lock up, lock up. Hey! How's it? Let's get a pitch so Ramsey can block. No, yes! Oh my God, and Lamar is gonna house it. That was out of nonsense. But it worked out. Let's go, baby. Ooh! Never mind. Lamar just gave up two potentially more. If we can't tackle him, no, he's fast. Yo. It's only a one point steal though. We'll be all right. I'm manned up on him. I don't like that too much. Ooh! Dude, boxing him right now, hard. Let's see if he goes left side wheel route. Let's try and pick it. I think he's gonna, yes. I knew he would. Lamar checks down. It's fourth and goal. Then he's got no hope. It's over, man. Let's just go deep with Jalen to be smart here. Actually, let's just go get the QB. Works for me. 18 to three. We get in the end zone. It's ball game. It's not fun not being quarterback though because they'll do some questionable stuff here. I just wanna make sure Lamar gets me the ball, you know? Come on, Lamar. Where the hell are you throwing that? Damn, well, there's the issue of being the running back. 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Go to rocketmoney.com forward slash mmg or click the link in the top of description to get started for free or you can unlock even more features with premium. That's rocketmoney.com forward slash mmg to get started for free. Get your money right and enjoy the rest of the video. Here we go. Got a big route here. He's manned up on me. He's got to try and cover this. Hey, no! Damn it, I had him. Feed me, feed me. Best. Back to Lamar. What? He took the pitch. Oh my God, am I gonna sell an 18 point lead? I'm there! Oh! Clutch! Clutchlark! The pitch! And that's 21 if we go! Let's go! Oh my God. Felix Madden is the player of the game. How? I don't want to hear it, man. I don't want to hear it. Mahir was the player of the game. Now the other really cool thing is the experience is actually cross modes. So I was level 10 previously in career mode or superstar, whatever you want to call it. And I just earned experience, skill points and cred in career mode for my performance here. I think one of my biggest issues with EA in previous modes is there was no reason to play them. Like superstar care was really cool but there were no usable rewards. The good thing about showdown here is every time I play well, my actual career mode player is getting an upgrade. So I'm gonna stick to it. This time I'm actually gonna play as quarterback. I don't know how this will work. I've got a Justin Jefferson and a Jaylen Ramsey. The other good thing about career mode is they give you a base 70 overall in every single step. So even though I'm a running back, I still have 70 throw accuracy short, mid and deep, 70 throw on the run. So at least I can like technically play a quarterback even though I'm not a quarterback. Ovo, Bob's running QB as well. He's just gonna take off, isn't he? Oh, I like that. I like that. Justin Jefferson gets up for an early two. How's it? How's it? We'll get another one. Come on. I'm gonna start to this ball game. Going for the three point conversion here. I'm just gonna chuck a bomb. Justin Jefferson. Jesus. He's getting flooded already. This game just started. 3XP, baby. Get there. Oh my God, an interception. Justin Jefferson just covered two people by himself. I didn't do any of that. Can I take off? Like if there's no blitz, can I just take off? Fuck it, wee ball. Horrible pass. I suppose I'm not a quarterback, right? Just take the check down. Nice work, Jefferson. Dude, look at all the hot routes you can give. Look at this. We're just fucking making routes up. Let's go deep cross right. I think that post route's gonna come over nicely. Ooh, it's a great pickup. It's nice for my teammate grade but we don't get anything there. He's got the dig open. Big hit. Let's go, baby. Damn. Corner out, corner out, corner out. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Ah, let's go. Stiffed it out. Got a house this. Great blocks. Go, go. God damn, I'm slower. What? I'm not a stamina. Damn, I really shouldn't be that slow. Can I keep through that? Oh, I can't take off. They can blitz, but I can't take off. Get in there, Jefferson. He's not in. He's so close, but he's not in. I'm gonna try the run. I'm gonna run the ball to Justin Jefferson. It's a ball play goal. But he's in. And it's all over. That's all she wrote. Hey, the team's silly too. 21-0, a clean sweep. Get on the move, baby. Justin Jefferson playing the game. No question. A rushing touchdown and a pick six for the wide receiver, only in showdown. And I'm getting a serious amount of XP from this. 1,200 XP? Holy shit, that's actually so good. Dude, I'll play in five minute quarter games. Takes about 20, 25 minutes a game. And I was getting roughly maybe six or 700 experience a game. Damn. Let's run it back, boys. We got Derwin and Justin Jefferson. He goes for the pitch. Oh my God. He pitched it back through the end zone. Oh my God. What a loser. All right, opening drive. Let's laser this slant route. Great throw. Let's just keep getting that teammate great up, right? He's going press man coverage. Does he see the wheel? He does a little late. And Justin Jefferson's in. Let's go. Great work, great work. I'm gonna go for the three point conversion and I'm just gonna air mail Justin Jefferson. He actually has a chance. Very good chance. Oh, he flopped it. Damn. That's Tyree to kill that DB too. That's a bummer. He wants this. Oh my, I guess I'm a running back. I won't catch everything, but damn, that should be an interception. I'm on that. I'm just gonna go with the handoff. Does he pitch it back? When he gets close, he does. Definitely expected that. Can't pitch now. Just gotta take your L. No L to take. Shifty. See like if that's a good ball, I get that too. Does he go with the handoff pitch? What are you doing? What? What? What are you really doing? You just had a touchdown. What are you doing? Bro, I thought he was gonna get me with that. Idiot. Good. Post route. Hang on to it, Justin Jefferson. Beautiful work. I'm just gonna go with the wheel. I'm gonna try his little, I'm gonna try his little strat here. Oh, don't need it. Big two, Jefferson. Oh, that was a nasty touchdown. We should go for one here because if we get this and then another touchdown, it's ball game. See that slant's open. It should clear. Oh my God. He's just, he's out of here. He's had enough. PC players, am I right? Or dig? Or nothing? Jefferson's got it. Pitchback. Oh, what a pitch. Darwin with daylight. We get extra bonus points because of the pitch. That was a 10 points touchdown. He's gonna quit. Dude, I wonder though, for him, Rage quitting here, turning off his Xbox, PC, whatever. Does that glitch out my XP? See, he definitely just shut his shit off. 25 points, though. I really hope that doesn't take away all those stats I got. Cause I played one hell of a game right there. I think that really did just fuck me over. Wow, I really think that took away all my rewards. That's really shitty. That's really shitty. How does EA not have like a fail-save mechanism for that? Or even like, you should have some form of default XP for a rage quit, right? Am I wrong? Did I get XP for that? I don't think I did. All right, let's try another one. He's gonna throw, oh my God. He got leveled. Still caught it though. Let's see what he goes for. Just a little stop and pop. I think he's looking hell of a ball too long. I don't know what he was going for there, but I like the idea I suppose. Ooh, that's a pretty, it would have been a nice route. If we weren't there, we gotta get the pitch touched on though. Whoa! Another fumble. It's my ball. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. I'm not gonna pretend like I do. I'm gonna try that post. It's a little aggressive. Oh, it's a bad ball. I gotta make this tackle though. Gotta make the tackle. No, yes. Good tackle, huge. I'm no QB. I can't laser that post. Does he pitch it? Damn, I kind of expected him to pitch it. Oh, shit. I was following him, but it was a corner route. Damn it. He's going for two. Pitch it back. Yes. Let's go. Let's go. What a play call. It'll be, it'll be a multi. Yes. We get extra points for that touchdown. Ooh, nasty play call. All right, let's go. Justin Jefferson across the middle here. Ooh, got his ass. Got his ass. The delay cross. A one point lead because of that. Let's go. Heave's went down field, big hit. I wonder if he's gonna hit stick fumble. Oh, he had that, but he can throw again, can he? Shit. Ooh. I'm just gonna stay in my zone. Shit, I said I was gonna stay in my zone. And I didn't let it all. Touchdown, he wins. So this doesn't matter too much. Damn, nice route. 18 to 11. Yeah, that didn't matter too much. If I get another pitch back touchdown though, I do win. I got time. It's a nice completion. I would have liked to pitch that. Let's hit the angle and then pitch this back. Yes. Pitch it, pitch it. Yes. Oh my God. Oh my God. That's game. That's game. Is it? It should be 21, right? Oh no. Wait, what? Okay, I don't understand the scoring anymore. Who cares though? If I get the two-point, it's game. I gotta get this though. I'm looking for CD lamb. Fuck it. Let's go. Right at him. Got it. Oh my God. What a win. Oh, that was massive. Let's go. Playing the game once again. Justin Jefferson. So my rank is going up. I assume that's my rank for showdown mode. Player grade determines how much XP I got. Gotta be plus, so I won't get as much as I wanted. Getting close here to level 12. 15, 15 XP for the how. See, honestly, if you rage quit though, you yourself are losing a ton of rewards because none of these rewards depended on me winning. In fact, I think literally none of them. There is no additional rewards for winning. All my rewards came from simply playing. So this is how the reward system works. As you tear up, you get these rewards here. That blue currency called cred can be used in the career mode section to buy animations and think about like VC for 2K really. But based on my tier gives me more rewards so I can unlock pants, jersey, and a helmet for this mode as I keep leveling up. That's really dope. All right, let's get one final really good game here. I'm motivated to continue to level up my player. Although, honestly, there is a big advantage to being quarterback, I'd say. If your CPU is throwing bummy passes, definitely puts you in a bad spot. I'm not gonna lie, I'm typing something here, but I don't know what just happened. Dr. Doofenschmerz just got a toddy on me. That was an MM casual moment right there. I was not aware of the game had already started. All right, you know what? I like it, a deficit. A chance to actually lose one of these games. Ooh, great route. This guy knows what's up. I'm just gonna go to Tyreek. I'll take the pitch here. Got some daylight. Oh, he switches on and switches off in showdown? What, hey, you know what? There's real rewards here. I can't be mad at anybody for playing their hard out. What I do like though is having Tyreek kill. That's a real nice advantage just for how fast he is. Might be able to just take people right over the top. Ooh, I got him. Oh, 70 throw on the run for the laser? Wait a minute. Nice rebuttal, nice rebuttal points right there. We needed that. I gotta take this. Doesn't look very open, but I got a little lucky there. Good to see that there's no penalties either. Cause Jam Ramsey definitely stepped out of bounds. He's gonna go just be patient. Oh, shit, shit. He's whooping my ass. Is he using his guy? I'm there, Tyree. Through a red part of the side. Oh, Tyreek kills, not exactly known for his defense. I gotta get a turnover somehow. Oh, I knew it. Way to sniff it out. And I'm just going, Ramsey, damn it. I gotta take that all the way. Should have pitched it. I'm just gonna send Tyreek to the end zone. Should be faster than his my player. Oh yeah, touchdown. Let's go. That's why having Tyreek is huge. Oh, I didn't throw the best ball. Cause I'm not a QB. Okay, we're gonna go to Tyreek, get in there. What the fuck? I didn't even need to do that, but we got extra points off of that. I think I was the X button. I held X to dive, but since he hadn't crossed the line of scrimmage, it threw it. Oh my God. Wait a minute. I have a chance to win right now. We get this, I win. I just gotta go airmail Tyreekill. Or I guess to whoever he doesn't guard. Yeah, Tyreekill. Let's go. Oh my God. Oh my God. Let's go. Monster come back. I'm so glad we played one more. I can't top that. 69 pass yards. This is the greatest fucking game ever. I can't, I can't record another one. I can't record at our showdown. There's to get any better than this. So out of the gameplay we just did, there was a 45 minute recording. I leveled up twice and I got two skill points out of that. Not to mention I also ranked up in showdown. This is a really fun, efficient way to continue your superstar mode. That's so cool. All right, boys. I said can't top that. It was an awesome game. Love you guys. Thanks for watching as always and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.