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Madden NFL 08 Review (continued)
More User Submitted Madden NFL 08 Reviews
Date: 2007-11-12
Game of the Year compared to Madden 07 :)
This game is insanely awesome compared to last year's. I'm sort of new to the Madden series (playing since madden 06), but i think i've seen my share of good and bad maddens. Well anyway, let's start with the good things about this game. You can play as a newly drafted rookie in superstar. DEFINITE plus. You can fully customize a created team and make stadiums, which 07 lacked. Many people like front office mode in Franchise because you can scout players and even relocate your team to various places in North America. On rosters you can edit any player's abilities to make them really bad or good. Weapons is really cool because you can make mismatches to get big plays. Graphics have been totally redone compared to 07 weird lookin graphics. Gameplay is so much smoother! Animations make for a lot better experience. Now for the cons. First, and most importantly, no madden, still that same annoying radio guy. There are less logos to use for created teams.
Date: 2007-10-26
another huge piece crap
ok the 360 maddens have been hard turds so heres why
06 AI was stupid and game was slow and boring
07 it was better but i would rather play with my a##
08 i was happy thil it started freezing up in year 2 or franchize so don't buy ea's crap fest that is madden
Date: 2007-10-21
Steps backward counter the meager improvements
I'm a pretty dedicated franchise mode player, so I'll just list what's changed in 08 for better and for worse for somebody like me.
Improvements:
1. Gameplay - Tackling, running, and receiving are improved. Playcalling has changed, allowing for play selection by formation, by type of play, by recently called, or by asking Madden. This throws you off at first, but you grow to accept it.
2. Style - The menus and backgrounds are sleeker, but definitely not easier to use.
3. Features - Weapons system differentiates great players by individual strengths, even allowing some defenders to read plays. More skill ratings this year are nice (all the old ones plus, for example, elusiveness, catch-in-traffic, stiff arm, route running, pursuit, etc.)
Steps backward:
1. Menus - I liked the old menu options and features. One small annoyance you find in the 2k series that has made its way into Madden this year is that when trying to make trades, once you select the players, if the trade doesn't work out and you back out to try to set up a trade with the next team, the menu defaults back to the Bears (1st alphabetical team). This is a small thing, but really obnoxious when you have to try to remember who the last team you tried was, then scroll all the way up to the next one. Also, the in-game audio and visual options are gone, so no turning on the blue line of scrimmage (you miss it more than you'd think), and no camera options. Normally the default cam is fine, but in 08 I can never see my wide receivers (even with my widescreen TV), so it would have been nice to be able to move the camera back to a wider view. AI sliders aren't available from your franchise mode menu, but I finally found them buried in the main menu, and, strangely, in the in-game pause menu.
2. Gameplay - Too many fumbles and interceptions, as everyone is saying. Now that I found the AI sliders, I turned down INTs and CPU defensive awareness (no fumbling/ball carrying slider), but I still have, in week 15, 27 INTs versus 23 TDs. Next most INTs in the league: Chris Simms with 13. Passing is a joke, for several resons. First, speed ratings seem to have almost no effect, at least for receivers, because I can't get mine to outrun ANYBODY on deep routes. I mean, they're practically JOGGING the routes. Second, as in previous Maddens, it's hard to put any touch on the ball when passing, especially short and medium passes; it's either a bullet or a rainbow. This makes it hard, for example, to get the ball to a tight end about 15 yards downfield over the heads of the linebackers, who can pick it off in mid-flight even if they're nowhere near as deep as the TE. Third, defenders still fight a lot harder to get to passes than your receivers do, since they seem to be the only ones actually paying attention to the pass. Fourth, it's hard to get the QB to do route-based passing. He throws based on what the receiver is doing at the moment instead of based on what the route dictates. Even with "precision passing" (haha), you can rarely get the QB to get the ball out in front of the receivers so they can catch in stride. Especially on long passes, the ball is often thrown at the receiver's hip. It's too easy for defenders who are behind your guys to knock down or pick off passes that should have been out of reach. In-game offensive line play sucks. In 07, linemen with decent strength would end up with like 13 pancakes a game, but now I'm lucky if more than one of my O-linemen get any pancakes. My best lineman has 4 pancakes on the season; most of the rest of the league's starters have between 40 and 80. Remember, this is week 15.
3. Experience - The retarded newspaper and email updates from 07 should have been vastly improved, not abandoned. It would have been satisfying to read about your overachieving franchise in the papers, or to get realistic emails from the coach and players reacting to last week's game. Same goes for the scouting report on the next opponent -- should have been improved instead of cut out. Michaels and Madden no longer announce the game, just a boring radio play-by-play guy. No color commentary = less immersive feel. Player ratings no longer improve during the season and only change very little in the off-season, and there's no more training camp to do it manually. So how do your young players get better? I haven't been able to figure that one out yet.
I'm mostly disappointed (I want to change my star rating to 2 and the fun rating to 1). If EA could have kept some of the features of previous versions with this one's improvements, and fixed the passing, 08 might have been great. Instead, EA continues to show an uncanny ability to tweak their game toward merely different instead of tweaking it closer to perfection.
Date: 2007-10-20
too many glitches
I bought game a couple of days ago and was impressed with the gameplay and the grafics in exhibition mode but once i began franchise mode it all went down hill. along with managing rosters there were minor freezes where i played around with the button and reconnected the controller and some how got it to work but by the time i made it to year 2 the game froze in before i could get the opening kickoff. Extremly upset did research online to find out about tons of glitches and complaints and ea removing such complaints from thier forums. the only good news is the are releasing patches the bad is that the patches have bugs as well meaning i wasted 60 buck don't buy.
Date: 2007-10-19
The Greatest Football Game Ever !!!!
After playing madden 08, It's a must have and is better than ever.The Franchise Mode is more depth build a dynasty that will last a lifetime, and the online experience is the ultimate challenge for any gamer. I hd this game for nearly a month and I could not put it down. The mini-games are designed to help you during fierce online competition or a friendly game against friends. Some players are equipped with weapon atrributes such as Cannon Arm (M.Vick), Big hitter (Shawn Merriman) and Accurate & smart QB (Tom Brady & Peyton Manning). If you love Madden Footbal you will love this new edition. Enjoy (Gamertag: Dukeboi78)
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