Archive for the ‘Madden’ Category
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OF Week One In The Books
The first week of the Official Pastapadre Madden 10 Online Franchise is now complete. It was a big success with 15/16 games being played. We ended up going with 11 minute quarters and 15 second accelerated clock which has produced realistic scores and stats. The biggest issue that has been discovered is there was nothing put into place to deal with the inevitable disconnects that will happen on occasion. Essentially you have a couple options when it does. Replay the game taking into consi...
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PP Online Franchise About To Begin
The Pastapadre Madden 10 Online Franchise has been taking shape over the last two weeks. Free agents have now been dispersed through a lottery and waiver process and a handful of trades have been completed. Philadelphia has been by far the most active having made multiple trades leading up to the start of the season. With how well the game has been playing online, especially after the adjustment yesterday to match the default online and offline game speed of "slow", it is exciting to get ...
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How Good Are Favre and Vick in Madden 10?
Yesterday brought about the much heralded additions of Michael Vick and Brett Favre to Madden 10. The ratings are out there (Vick - Favre) but how effective they are in the game can not always be determined by looking at ratings. Continue on for analysis of the two players while user controlled and CPU simmed. (more…)...
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Madden 10 Roster Update #2 Details
Here are the full details of the roster update released for Madden 10 earlier this morning. This is the second update since the game has been released and includes the high profile additions of Brett Favre to the Vikings and Michael Vick to the Eagles. At this point it is unknown if updates will continue each week through the preseason or if the next one will come after the rosters are finalized for the regular season. Continue on for a look at all the changes in this update. (more&helli...
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Madden 10 Brett Favre Ratings
As reported earlier Brett Favre will be included in the Madden 10 roster update that is scheduled to go out tomorrow 8/19. Having him already created and ready to go surely accelerated the process allowing him to sneak into the update even though his signing today came as a surprise. The question becomes what QB has been removed from the roster, which will likely be John David Booty. Above is one of the first images of Favre in the game with more found in the screenshot gallery. Meanwhile...
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Brett Favre Joining the Vikings
When Brett Favre announced his retirement my immediate reaction was I didn't buy it, and that certainly was a sentiment shared by others. Of course his un-retirement has yet again come to fruition as Brett Favre will be signing with the Minnesota Vikings today. Obviously this is a big boost to the team in Madden 10. They already have a great running game and explosive wide receivers. Now they'll upgrade from the 69 rated Sage Rosenfels and 67 rated Tavaris Jackson to someone with a big ar...
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Madden 10 Michael Vick Ratings
EA Sports has released the initial ratings for Michael Vick now that he is being added in via roster update to Madden 10 on Wednesday August 19th. Given that Vick will be able to showcase himself in the final two preseason games there is some opportunity to see his ratings adjusted based on his performance in those. After that though there will be a period of time (up to six games) where he will not be active so they will be locked in. Personally I think he arrives a little overrated cons...
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Madden NFL 10 Coverage Wrap-Up
Madden 10 is now officially out so it'd be great to hear some more general impressions and reaction from those of you playing the game now. Over the last week I've put together prerelease coverage which you can find the links to below in case you missed any of it. Going forward I'll have more about Online Franchise as we get into the mode and see how it all plays out. Also of note the next roster update will come on Wednesday August 19th and will see the arrival of Michael Vick on the Eagles...
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