Same old Madden.

User Rating: 5 | Madden NFL 08 PC
I guess I'm like everyone else. I thought that maybe we'd see some fixes and some new stuff in this game and it would keep the interest alive another year. Didn't happen.

I had these fantasies that they would enhance the franchise mode with things like 3-way trades, multiple franchise ownership, recruiting across the globe, "seeding" players in the upcoming draft and so on. If I sit around for a few hours and think about it, I can envision quite a new gaming experience. I wonder why the people who do this for a living at EA don't go through the same process.

And I thought maybe they would fix all the annoying gameplay issues like the bouncing menus and the lack of a QB slide key for the PC version.

But alas, none of that happened. The only "improvement" that I can detect is the loss of the Tony Bruno show. Thank god for that. The interface is WORSE than last year, which was worse than the previous and so on. I get repetitive stress in my hand, after only a couple hours of playing, from struggling with the slippery, bouncing menus in Franchise Mode. I'm mainly a Franchise Mode player, but I did check out the Career Mode, and it's still as unplayable this year as last. The only improvement is that they did away with the weird genetic experiment of selecting your parents. Madden still does the color announcing in Franchise, however he's gone in Career Mode. By the way, I still can't understand why they don't give you optional camera views in Career Mode. I just can't play that helmet-cam view and I'd like to go widescreen like I do in Franchise. But I don't think anyone at EA has even thought of giving options.

I don't think anyone at EA really cares what PC gamers would like to see in this game, to tell you the truth. It's all about the XBox nowadays.

My analysis of this game is pretty the same as everyone else's - it's Madden 07 with a few cosmetic changes. It's hard to believe that EA has the chutzpah to charge us full price for a patch upgrade.

Aren't we all glad that EA has no competitors in this genre? Yeah right.