Release Date:
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Game Platform:
PS2, Xbox, GameCube, DS
Its ba-a-a-ck! Kiss the rest of your summer (and your loved ones) goodbye and get ready to spend all your waking hours indoors, sitting next to a giant bag of Fritos, agonizing over 43 blitz packages. (Dont worry, Bill Belichick is doing the exact same thing.) Every new version of Madden has its own set of improvements, and this year the designers tweaked the passing game, letting quarterbacks with great field presence see their receivers better
and those named A.J. Feeley dig their own graves at halftime. But as far as added realism goes, thats a drop in the Gatorade bucket. The all-new Superstar mode lets you create a player (even selecting his parents DNA!) and follow his career, from the Senior Bowl, to signing with a scumbag agent, to getting caught at the airport with a prosthetic dong and dried urine. (OK, there are no drug tests, but you can take an IQ test and get minor roles in action movies.) And this year Madden isnt just the best game in townafter locking up an exclusivity agreement with the NFL, its literally the only game in town. As if you needed another reason to fork over 50 bucks