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Madden 08, shockingly, has glitches
Grapefruit Juice | 12:52 PM on 08.13.2007 8 comments


From the kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/229150.html

1.) Everyone is constantly turning the ball over. I played against my friend David four times — as the New Orleans Saints vs. the Chicago Bears — and we each fumbled and threw interceptions as if we were newbies. We’re not.
Then I played a solo match against the computer. Both my team and the other team — the Tennessee Titans vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — fumbled and threw pick-offs four times.
That’s eight interceptions in a 20-minute ballgame of five-minute quarters. This is wildly unacceptable.
One time I dove to the ground without any defensive guy hitting me, and I fumbled while falling peacefully to the ground.

2.) If you are running with the ball, you can press a button to do a lateral. But if you accidentally press this button when there’s no teammate around you (fairly easy to do), you fumble. How stupid.

3.) There is a great “protect” button you can press. It makes you wrap both hands around the football while you’re running. This should keep you from fumbling. Yet I was jogging as a big fullback in open field toward a touchdown, with the “protect” button on, and a tiny little safety guy pushed me once.
I fumbled.

4.) When a new series of downs begins for my offense, I’m given just over 20 seconds to scan through my plays, pick one, rush to the line of scrimmage, and snap the ball. This is absurd.

5.)(mine)

[i]Not that it matters, youve either drank the kool-aid or not, and no amount of glitches(08 apparently), rip-offs(06, 07), or complacency(05-08) will deter you. So, start your hondas, turn up the Limp Bizkit, and turn your ball caps around, the roster update arrives at midnight!. BTW is EA still using those cheerleader pics from 03?



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Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2007 13:13
Justice
That's what you get for buying the game in the first place!

Seriously haven't you seen that NBA Live 07 glitches video

EA don't care about the actual games, they just care about the franchises as wholes and of course "teh monayz"
bloodylip's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2007 13:25
bloodylip
Regarding (2), I say that's no glitch. Sounds perfectly acceptable to combat people spamming the lateral button.

Regarding (4), it seems a little short. Isn't the play clock usually 30 seconds or so? Either way, STFUAJPG.
Grapefruit Juice's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2007 13:34
Grapefruit Juice
play clock is actually 40 sec.
kadosho's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2007 14:19
kadosho
I can just imagine my friend from AllGames, Scot Rubin will be screaming in his sleep. "Why da bugs!" "Why!!" Um, yeah he probably would do that. *and is a dedicated Madden fan, believe me, hardcore to the bone.

Honestly its frustrating to hear, even a football game can't escape in-game bugs like this. And alot of these plays are just simple tasks. How does Tiburon manage to f'up so easliy? We know its a timed release before the games start. But c'mon balance this stuff out before it hits shelves..

So next time, we'll have an unplayable game for $50. Wonderful. Thanks EA! (the game's not quite here yet!)
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