The 17 official referees have been already scanned for the game

Sep 28, 2012 09:49 GMT  ·  By

Two sources that are close to the development team already working on Madden NFL 14 have revealed that the new game in the series will include official likenesses for the game referees.

One of the sources says that EA Sports has already scanned the faces of the officials and that their faces will be important as the team aims to make calls and explanations a bigger part of the game in Madden NFL 14.

The 17 regular game referees will be able to appear in penalty and in pre-game cinematics and the developers aim to offer more variety for gamers.

Ed Hochuli, a well-known referee, has been used as the template for the generic official since 2006 when it comes to physique, but he has never been referred by name in a game and his face is never shown.

Madden NFL 13 has just been released and EA Sports will probably only start offering information on the next game in the series early in 2013.