Archive for the ‘Madden’ Category
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NBA Live 08 Kevin Garnett screenshots
EA Sports has released six screens from NBA Live 08 featuring Kevin Garnett on the Boston Celtics in his new #5 jersey. Click the thumbnails below for the full size images. ...
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Madden Community Event set for August 9th
The Madden 08 Community Event will officially take place August 8-10th at the Tiburon studio in Orlando. The time with the game will be spent on Thursday the 9th as the other two are travel days. For myself that accounts for a big chunk of time considering there couldn't be much further of a flight within the contiguous states than Seattle to Orlando while connecting through California. As opposed to past community events where there was more significant amount of time before the...
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Madden 08 opening video
Below is apparently the video that will play as Madden 08 loads up. Hard not to get psyched while watching. However I found myself more excited for the actual upcoming NFL season than Madden since it seemed to be more centered on real footage than game footage. ...
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Closer look at Create-A-Stadium and Superstar mode
IGN has posted two new Madden 08 articles. One details the stadium creator, and the other goes over Superstar mode. Superstar is very similar to NCAA Football's Campus Legend mode although it has one element that is specific to Madden. The use of "weapons" in the game and working your player towards acquiring them. I do find IGN's assertion that Superstar was the "best thing about Madden 07" to be puzzling. While the concept was great, the horrible camera a...
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What does the KG trade mean to the basketball games?
With the news now official, Kevin Garnett is a Celtic. He has been traded to Boston in exchange for Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff along with his expiring contract and two first round picks. Combining Garnett with Paul Pierce and Ray Allen in Boston is going to make for an exciting trio. This amounts to a huge swing in terms of how both teams will be viewed in the basketball games. I'll be doing power rankings in relation to how good every team should be in NBA L...
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Madden video going over technical enhancements
Gametrailers has posted a new video that has producers for Madden 08 discussing different improvements to the game on the technical side as well as new gameplay footage to go along with it. Some of the topics discussed include control responsiveness, branching animations, mid-air collisions, collision detection, gang tackling, AI, and fatigue. This was one of the more impressive videos put out for the game this year. Not only in hearing about all of the improvements and additions but also ho...
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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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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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