Knee jerk review on Madden 2007

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Knee jerk review on Madden 2007

By Adam Myers ⋅ August 23, 2006 ⋅

Madden Cover I obtained the latest release of Madden Football, just like I do every year. Some would say that is slightly pathetic - and a part of me can agree - pandering to whatever EA Sports decrees as being worthy of $50 and new box art. However, good news and good times, I have begun to see the light that most other gamers have already touched upon - Madden 2007 is the latest in a long line of customer milking by Electronic Arts. What do I mean? How about this:

Graphics and gameplay are pretty much the same as always. No upgrades.
Too much spam on the screen now. You can hardly see the field with all of the damn control pop up screens.
They changed the kicking which didn’t make it better or worse.
Superstar mode is still dumb and a complete waste of time.
Loading times at the “trade block” screen and others take way too long
New run controls are basically the same. The new blocking mode is lame, you are better off controlling the RB than a blocker
Reggie Bush is pretty much unstoppable not unlike Vick was a few years back, or Jerry Rice and Walter Payton in the classic TecmoBowl series. His speed, acceleration, agility, catch, run, etc are all pretty close to 99.
You can edit players attributes, so you can fix what you don’t agree with, which is nice
The same glitches that drove you nuts on the previous version weren’t fixed
In franchise mode you can do a better job with scouting the combine, as well as workout players before drafting them, which is a nice touch

And yet, I’ll still lose countless hours to the game. Maybe next year will be different?

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