Barry Sanders selected for Madden NFL 25 cover

First details about annual sports game also released

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 - 11:13am EST

Electronic Arts and ESPN have announced that after six rounds and 40 million votes, Barry Sanders was selected as the cover athlete for Madden NFL 25.

The results were revealed during a 1 hour primetime special on SportsNation on ESPN 2 last night, when Old School bracket champion Barry Sanders defeated New School bracket winner Adrian Peterson by taking 58% of the final vote.

During his run to the cover, Sanders triumphed over Ray Lewis, Marcus Allen, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. Sanders’ win marks the first athlete ever to appear on back-to-back covers after sharing the NCAA Football 13 box with Robert Griffin III last year. This also marks the first time players from the same team have secured consecutive covers as Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson, Jr. appeared on the cover of Madden NFL 13.

Year two of the Infinity Engine brings both a more polished physics simulation and introduces the new Force Impact System. Power moves including the Hit Stick, trucking, dive tackle and stiff-arm have been redesigned. Infinity Engine 2 also introduces a suite of new features and improvements, including hard run cutting for more natural changes of direction, user-controlled stumble recovery, improved run blocking, new post-play logic and more.

Madden NFL 25 will be available on August 27, 2013 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.