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Padre’s Campus Legend: Part 10
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 As I mentioned previously the Campus Legend career of Pasta Padre will continue throughout his Junior season with the possibility of a Senior season. Since he'll be carried over into Madden's Superstar Mode, it's a good idea to keep following along to have the full history. Continue on for the full second half of Padre's sophomore year. (more…)...
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Gamedaily’s take on the NBA 2K8 event
The impressions from Gamedaily regarding NBA 2K8 were interesting. As opposed to the majority of the sites that attended the recent media event, Gamedaily didn't just talk about the new dunk contest but they actually shared their opinion of what it meant in the big picture. They were disappointed that 2K didn't actually show off the game, which is what most people had hoped or expected going in. You can read their impressions in full here. NBA Live 08 is already a great sports game, an...
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Reports from NHL 08 Community Day
The EA Sports NHL 08 Community event took place on 7/27. I've collected some of the sites that have reported back on the event and linked to them below. I will update the list as they are posted. 5W-G: 10 new screenshots, Full Impressions, Analysis of the event ConsoleSports (registration required): Community Day update thread The Breakaway: Community Day update thread ...
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New Madden blog: “Things you won’t see on the back of the box”
In a new blog on the official Madden 08 site, Producer Ian Cummings goes over some of the less publicized aspects of Madden 08 and displays examples in a video. The topics touched on are team specific celebrations, bad weather jukes, short yardage play-action, defender fakeout logic, and "Mario running" fixes. You can check out the full blog posting here. This is another really good blog from the Madden team showcasing things in the game that may generally be glossed over by the media sites ...
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NBA Live 08 Chris Paul screenshots
EA Sports has released a handful of new screens featuring Chris Paul from NBA Live 08. Paul is the cover athlete for NBA 2K8, so of course it is sure to draw a reaction. After seeing the disappointing screenshots released for 2K8 (and that is especially so with the two showing Paul) EA has come out and presented their own version of him for direct comparison. Click the thumbnails below to view the images full size. ...
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Highlight clip contest winner
Congrats to the winner of the NCAA Football 08 highlight clip contest. Clip #2 came through in a narrow victory over #1. The Penn State INT to forced fumble to return for TD was unique enough to beat out the great Miami TD run. He'll have the choice between NBA Street: Homecourt on the PS3 or Def Jam: Icon on the 360. Check back to the site in the near future for another contest! ...
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Reviewers don’t actually bother with online play
I've stated this before in write-ups, but media site reviewers don't bother to fully evaluate the online modes of sports titles. Whether it be due to having to push out reviews before the game actually releases or just a lack of caring about it, clearly it is the one area that is routinely ignored for sports games. Issues such as the distance based lag in EA Sports titles and the broken leagues in 2K titles never have been mentioned in the past. Some games may even end up with noth...
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Screenshot comparison: NBA Live 08 vs NBA 2K8
I went ahead and placed an NBA Live 08 screenshot side-by-side with each of the five new NBA 2K8 screens. I didn't use the dunk contest ones from 2K8 since there is nothing comparable from Live in terms of the environment. I attempted to find two that were at least close to matching up. Both games are set to come out on the same day (October 2nd) so they should be in similar states of development. Before anyone makes the comment, obviously screens don't determine which game will end up b...
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