Comments on: Hands-On Preview: Madden 09 (Eating Crow)

By: Chad Lakkis

Chad Lakkis — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:07:28 +0000

Thanks 2k Lover. Glad you enjoyed the preview.

I downloaded the demo myself this afternoon. It’s pretty short but gives you enough time to set up your Madden IQ with the Virtual Trainer and then throws you into some situational football.

You will be pitted against arguably the hardest team to beat in the NFL, the New England Patriots, with 1:30 left in the 4th of the Super Bowl.

I may take the IQ test again and play poorly just so that it makes it a little easier to move the ball against them. Right now I am having a hard time getting a first down. :)

If you download it let me know what you think.

Chad-

By: 2k Lover

2k Lover — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:38:46 +0000

After reading this preview, I will at least download the demo now. I have stuck to playing ESPN 2K5 and APF 2K8 for the past two years, so it would be nice to have a current football game I can enjoy.

I’m still skeptical, but this preview was one actually worth reading (instead of it being just another mindless feature list like so many other magazines do–this gets to the nitty-gritty).

By: Dolphins

Dolphins — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:35:28 +0000

madden 07 on ps3 would stutter and it felt like you had no control over your players, like going for an INT you’d have to jump so early cuz the guy would be so slow to perform the task….and yea the PS3 controls are terrible, i see alot of long time PS madden fans with the same problem, i hope they fixed it so you can use the classic madden 05 controls everyone on playstation have become so familiar with, i bought it for ps2 last year cuz i figured id rather give up the graphics for way better gameplay…im gonna wait a day or 2 and check some reviews out because if they havent changed it im stickin with the ps2 version, at least they got a TV broadcast back, that radio announcer was just the worst

By: J Williams

J Williams — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:52:21 +0000

Thanks for the review of the game. I totally denounced Madden on PS3 last year because of the controls and the lack of there of….

Do this year’s version allow you to change the controls to Madden 05, or other schemes? Thanks in advance

By: Chad Lakkis

Chad Lakkis — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:40:14 +0000

Thanks dmac. Glad to have you as a reader.

By: dmac

dmac — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:42:58 +0000

nice write up man, and congrats on the company. I found that last years madden was way to “cartoony” ina way, so I stuck it out with NCAA 08 and that game was amazing. Looking forward to other posts

By: Gunny Highway

Gunny Highway — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:59:38 +0000

Wow, if people do a search on Ripten for Madden, you will see many a comment from me stating how I will never play a madden game again. This preview gives me hope.

Lets hope Chad is right and there is a football game we will be proud to play again.