as a fan of nfl i think its just my obligation to play the game...played it, not really impressed.
this is my first madden so i dont have much background about the series.at first i thought it was ok, but as you play along you'll notice some glitches of this game.the handle of the game was cool (keyboard's a little awkward) the only catch is that the ai is very stupid and you'll get a perfect season easily.the only good team that seems to be really smart is Indianapolis colt's but other team you can beat with almost 30 points margin.even if you increase the ability of the ai the difference is hardly noticeable.
I cant comment on the online since i'm on dialup so all my games against human is on lan.
you'll notice the glitches of this game when you go up against human.since your buddy play's smart and daring the two of you probably gonna get 100 plus points combined at the end. scoring in this game is really easy. i think the main reason of this is that the star players are all overrated. Like tomlinson he seems to be overly good on gaining yards after contact that we dubbed him oilman coz he seem to have oil in his body that defenders cant seem to get hold of him.
tomlinson i can swallow but long passing yards i cant. when we're playing lan the score could get really high simply because we can get 2 play touchdown even if you started in your own 20 yard. it's incredibly easy to have you 50 yards pass be completed even if there's a man coverage on the receiver.play as greenbay and you'll see what i mean.hot route jennings just vertical start the play then pass.incredibly almost no amount of coverage can defeat this play.i was playing steelers then with ike talyor covering jennings i put double coverage on him and make my coverage prevent (all defense except the linemen fall back to cover possible receiver). incredibly jennings outrun taylor and the other defender plus the safety.this happens atleast once every position of greenbay.even when i;m on offense i just let hines ward go forward a little bit then pass almost completed every time.
because of super offense, being on the defense is really annoying specially when plays like the one mentioned happen every time.
this passing issue on long yards makes the whole thing almost feels like designed not to challenge the user but only to make them feel good which after a while when you realize it , it suddenly becomes dull and boring. the term "rubber band ai" always come to mind.
it could have been better if there's a better handle on the defense.
on the technical issue, the graphics is good but not so compared to third generation console,but at least the game is stable and the loading time is short.overall the pc version somewhat feels like a rushed job.its like a man in ea sport just yelled at someone to make a pc version, reproduce it then shipped to buyers without really consideration of what the reaction of those people would be.its like those Christmas lights that did not go through quality control, its very good to the eye at first but as time goes it will break loose and you'll realized that it's not really worth it.