Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Electronic Arts - Electronic Arts
Xbox 360
Release date: 2008-08-12
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Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Date undefinedSo far one of the best of the Madden games ever made the best part is the your skill level play.
it also fun playing some old school Madden to realize how far we have gone.
Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Date undefinedFirst off, I'd like to say that it is getting old every game manufacturer putting out something, adding little trinkets like an eight-ball keychain, adding a couple of extra features, and calling it a "collector's edition."
EA Sports did an awesome job when they released Madden 05 and its "Collector's Edition." They did an awesome job adding the interviews and showing the progression all the way from the beginning of Madden to the then current generation and even including THREE different versions of Madden. Since then, I've been duped into buying the 07 collector's edition and this one. The "extra" disc is okay, but it doesn't warrant really being called an "extra" disc. I will review Head Coach 09 right now before I review Madden. :YAWN!!! I tried to play, and even made it through one game. Yawn. Anyway. On to the game..
CONS:
1. Way too much information on the screen prior to the snap. After a few games, I've gotten the preplay options down fairly well. I do hit the right stick, but it still does pop up every so often during the game.
2. While I do appreciate the attempt at commentary upgrade from prior versions, Cris Collinsworth is rather dull, and the next time i have to hear him say, "The joy about the NFL is watching qbs throw the ball, and WRs catching the ball." My, how insightful. Worse yet, "the tight end is like a pacifier." comment. enough!!! I feel at times that eugene levy is doing the play by play
2a. if Tom Hammond mentions one more frickin' time that today's game is brought to me by EA Sports, i will Elvis my TV and shoot it.
3. Bring Madden back into his own game.
4. bring back the all the officials, not just the referee, and the chain gang.
5. when i challenge a play, let me know what I'm challenging first. I hate challenging a catch on the sidelines, b/c the guy looked like he was out of bounds, but when I challenge, it challenges the spot of the ball.
6. every so often, Cris will go to show me a backtrack, the logo will come up, and w/o pressing anything, it will disappear and go back to normal gameplay w/o doing squat.
7. the td celebrations are a nice touch, but only make them available only after a cool TD like an INT ran back, or a kickoff, not when I QB sneak from a yard out with the game already in the bag.
PROS:
1. gameplay and graphics are awesome.
2. they brought back the option to allow the cpu to play itself if you are bored and just want to watch.
3. the ability to bluff your plays. when i play humans, the main one i play against tends to watch my play.
4. If I lose a challenge, the salt isn't rubbed into the wound anymore by showing me the scoreboard graphic of "TIME OUT." It's a little subtler now.
It took a little bit for this game to grow on me for some reason. I do at least enjoy playing the 93 version. I must be dumb b/c i don't know where all these extra plays are supposed to be. This is probably a partial wish list for next year, but at least attach the field goal nets to something instead of casper the friendly ghost raising them. bring back the chain gang, and the ability to truly squib quick. it would also be nice if they would put up a sports ticker at the bottom like on the ps1 with ongoing scores of the other games going on when you are playing on the ea sports ticker. It's too bad that they can't throw in real time scores as well.
overall, the game is an improvement over the past two incarnations of madden for the xbox 360, but it really didn't live up to the hype that this game was getting. the box mentions 85 new features, but i've yet to find 20. That being said, i do enjoy playing it.
Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Date undefinedFreezes all the time. In the second year of my franchise on Madden, I can no longer train my players. Even before this, I couldn't play two consecutive games in my franchise or else it would freeze. Online games drop all the time. I assumed the 08 problems would be on the top of EA's priority list with 09, but they weren't. In fact, it's gotten worse. What EA does should be illegal. It probably is.
