[QUOTE="Scarface_tm431"][QUOTE="Matt2556"]

1) Its EA, what do you expect?

2) Its a sports game, what do you expect?

3) You wasted your money.

Matt2556

Wow your points 1 & 2 really made it known how much you pay attention to games

Thats biased. In professional football, i can see your point. EA does own exclusive rights to the NFL. But there's Arena league, and Street versions aswell. None of which I like.

I play sports games for the depth. And in Madden, the greatest depth you can get from it is the franchise portion of the game. And when that is rendered virtually useless by a glitch, you're missing a good chunk of the game itself and it's an unfinished product.

1) Its EA, what do you expect?

2) Its a sports game, what do you expect?

3) You wasted your money.

Matt2556

1) A better product. It hasn't ALWAYS dished out shoddy, untested and unfinished material

2) A...better....review? possibly stating the mentioned bugs that render the game useless. that's the point

3) Possibly.

I'm not going to lie, before I buy every game that sits in my library right now, I scout Gamespot reviews first and foremost. I believe most of them to be dead on, if not from the critic, then from the Users who rate the games themselves.

So before I went out and purchased Madden 2008 for the 360, I cited a review of 8.5 from one of Gamespot's critics. Fantastic. I had my doubts that this years version was going to blow just as much as last years because of bug issues. So I go out and purchase the game.

Now, I don't know if a lot of you are huge fans of the madden franchise, but for the past 6 years I have purchased every new release and have been satisfied. But this years version is a travisty.

I can overlook the graphical glitches. A game is still playable with graphical glitches. But when you can't even complete more than 4 seasons in franchise mode because of a huge glitch in the free agent and rookie system, that makes the game UNPLAYABLE. I quote

" The major complaint from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consumers is that in Franchise mode, when a team drops a player for whatever reason, he does not reenter the game through free agency, but rather, disappears. Over the period of two or three seasons, which amounts to playing about 40 games, the player pool becomes so slim that the mode can no longer continue."

My question is two-fold:

How in the hell does an unplayable game result in a score of 8.5??

How in fiery hell does EA get away with charging $60 for an unplayable game??

[QUOTE="Nonam3gamer"]

The Anwser is: VEI doesn't make any sense and you are assuming that it works in a logical way.

It does not.

DealRogers

lol, why??

It's designed for retail computer salesman to sell computers to stupid people :)

well it didnt work.

left it on last night, and it stopped at 26%. so i split the hard drive by 26% and tried quick formatting it. It gave me the same error "Check connections, SCSI blah blah blah"

Im thinking i just need a new hard drive. really REALLY lame.

very smart idea.

i'll let it run tonight, and see if it stops at 27% again. but that was a pretty nice lightbulb lol

The operating system is completely gone, so there's no way to boot up

and i have NO clue how to seperate a "bad" sector and make it a seperate partition. lol

198? Gosh how much pr0n sites did he go to?mattpunkgd

i know right?

For some reason it does not allow me to do a "quick" format. it tells me to "Make sure drive is switched on and properly connected to your computer. If the disk is a SCSI make sure SCSI devices are properly terminated. Must select different partition."

But when i select a different option it begins formatting. Soooo clueless