Next Gen Madden isnt chaulk full of the freatures we are all used to but then again it didnt need to be.

User Rating: 8.9 | Madden NFL 06 X360
By BigMo16 | Review Date:
For those of you that have been fortunate enough to get your hands on an advanced copy of MADDEN 06 and find an XBOX 360 in your city that was able to let you play it, you were in for a treat. This new MADDEN is by far the best looking madden to date, compared to this entire list of tltles that were to ship with the launch of the 360. Very few of them were titles built exclusively for the 360. With most of the games having been originally planned for one of the previous consoles such as Call of Duty on the PC or Perfect Dark on the XBOX, it would have been very easy for EA to fallow in those foot steps and put a little polish to their already finished game and pump it on to shelves for a wapping 60 dollars. Now this would have been a move EA usually makes, and probably a smart one as far as making dollars goes. But since their last generation of football titles show little or now growth in the technology department, I think EA thought it wiser to start from the ground up. Now EA's continual inability to improve there game wasnt a problem as long as us football simulation fans could still pick up our copy of ESPN NFL 2kwhatever. But that option wasnt available last year, in fact it wont be available for a while. So there was EA, the sports juggernaut wtih the licence to the NFL its players and its teams, and there was us, the fans. One problem, there werent as many fans of madden as EA had hoped. In fact when EA shipped MADDEN 06 for the current gen consoles they couldnt wait to pick up the piece of the market left vaccant by Take 2 sports, the makere of the ESPN titles. But they didnt, sales were down and this new madden didnt satisfy like Football fans had hoped, party cause it was pretty much the same game as 05 with just a few new features, this has been EA
's M.O. as of late. Now I say all of that because what EA did for their next gen football game was smart. They decided that since their last ploy at picking up additional fans in the football gaming market didnt work maybe they should put some effort forth this time, and they did. This new madden is great, even though it isnt a large step in the next gen direction, it is the right one. I have heard people complain about how this is gone and that is gone, and you khow what they are right it would have been great to have a better franchise mode, create a player or the ability to challenge plays, BUT EA would most likely not have been able to show the LOYAL football SIMULATION style fans that they have a game for both the arcader and themselves. That is exactly what EA did with this. They showed us what happens when you actually put work into a game insted of just tinkering with last years modle and they showed us that they are committed to taking madden in a new direction. Even if it means pissing off some old fans who are gonna get the game anyway, so they can offer the new fans an olive branch of peace. When you play this game you can see they spent all of thier time and energy making this new MADDEN exactly that...NEW. Its a solid foundation for the future and i think worth picking up. Because while it doesnt compare to the current gen as far as depth in the features department goes, it more than swallows the previous games when it comes to the depth of the actual game on the field. It plays great, looks great, sounds great and smells great. Ok so maybe it doesnt smell great, but it could ( Hint HInt EA). If i can be real about it though, Im not upset at everything EA left out, nd you shouldnt be either. Im impressed at all they put into it. And believe me ive talked with many a folks who agree that EA took the hint by all the fans of football and decided to stop jerking us around and give us what we want...A game that FINALY feels like football.

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