Madden 09 Marks 20 Years of Digital Football
It's Madden day, the most anticipated day of the year for many gaming sports fans, when the latest installment of the hugely popular NFL game is released for just about every gaming platform out there -- even the aged PlayStation 2. With publisher EA's lock on the NFL license, it's basically the only game in town, and with no competition, it gets only incrementally better and better every year. This year's edition, 'Madden 09,' follows that trend by delivering a little more polish here (improved graphics) and a few extra features there (the ability to retry plays), but hardly anything groundbreaking. Here's a roundup of the reviews we've seen posted thus-far.
- Gamespot loves the improved graphics and the backtrack feature that lets you rewind a play and try it again, but laments the disappointing online league play.
- IGN echoes most of those comments, indicating there isn't all that much new here.
- 1UP is rather more positive, gushing that the game is "so visually impressive that it's likely to stick in your system all season long."
For more on Madden 09, check out the coverage at Joystiq.
