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1.3.2004

Just when you thought Madden 2004 had the world cornered in the franchise mode, they raise the bar once again. New this year is the owner mode which adds a completely new dimension to the game. As the owner, you can set prices for tickets, parking, concessions, and football related products (hats, shirts, and the like). To help boost interest in your team, you can spend advertising dollars on the radio and television, or in print or on billboards. You can also lobby for a new stadium at the expense of taxpayers. The game provides feedback to your actions; graphs are shown on a weekly and yearly frequency that chart things like fan interest, attendance, income, and more.All the financial data affects the bottom line of your organization. Overall, the owner mode is a wonderful addition. Another new feature is “playmaker” control which gives additional control over the flow of the game.Aside from the new features of the game, Madden 2004 packs in all the traditional joys. The depth of the franchise mode where you control player management is there, as is the huge playbook selection. If managing a team is too cumbersome for you, the game offers the usual modes of play - single games, season, situation, tournament, and the skills based training camp mode. Once you move down through the game menus you'll find gameplay tweaks for anything you can think of. Unfortunately you will have to play with the sliders a bit to find a game that suits your tastes. Penalties are called too infrequently on the default settings, and even when maxxed out some are never called. You can also adjust the characteristics of the players. Just about everything is discussed in the manual, though some advanced moves are only explained in either the pre-game pop-ups or “Madden 101” section of the game.There really isn't much bad with the game. If there are complaints, they would center on penalties, perceived AI cheating, and the lack of online play. The penalty calling is odd. After the first few games I wasn't getting any penalties so I bumped all the penalties to the maximum. Then I was getting too many facemask penalties. I've knocked those sliders down, but I still don't get a good mix of interference, roughing, or motion calls despite those sliders pegged to the maximum setting. On cheating by the CPU, every so often you'll swear the CPU gets a huge gain, an opportune penalty call, or some other freak occurrence to continue its drive or stymie yours. You really see this in the mini camp game situations. Finally, the lack of online play is inexcusable. The EA corporate line on the Xbox is no online play. That's unfortunate for the Xbox consumer.Whoever says EA always rests on its laurels hasn't taken a look at Madden 2004. The game has improved secondary play and a new owner mode giving you even more control over the finances of the team. And don't forget the new playmaker control. The advanced controls let you take unprecedented control of virtually every aspect of the game. With it the running game is improved and the defense rises to a new level. All this boils down to one great football game.
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27.12.2004

the reason i played this game over 2005 is because it is the last game which has the great triad of 49ers, Garcia, Owens and hearst!Can i just say one thing, many of the reviewers of this game slate the defending controls of this game. Well, yes it is true defending in this game is a case of button bashing but, hey if you don't like it just select the defencive play and sit back and watch the computer defend for you. It is that simple. Although you may not get the best experience of the game by doing that you'll still be able to win your matches. thats what i've done and i haven't lost superbowl for 5 years!The game is great, no denying that John Madden is the daddy when it comes to virtual NFL.I've played NFL Fever, and ESPN Football, and both are more arcadey and not simulation. This game offers a franchise mode, where you get to control every aspect of the team. You can edit the team kit, the players, and the plays. but what makes this different to any other NFL Game? well what about create a stadium, or relocating say San Francisco 49ers to Los Angeles to create Los Angeles Centurians??The graphics are superb just as you'll expect from an XBox game. The sound is emence though does suffer when compared to ESPN. And one small thing, the commentators can count! How many times have you played a game and have won by 70 odd points only for the commentators to say something like "the home team win by a huge devisit"??Overall this game is a 90 yard touchdown pass from Garcia to Owens, compared to a 50 yard punt by Lafleur like other american football games.
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9.10.2003

As a long time fan and player of the John Madden series, I was initially very pleased with the presentation and game play of 2004 and although it bares many resemblences to 03, it is still a quality game. My main gripe with the console version of Madden is that the AI of the defence is very poor allowing far too many Ooooohh Yeeeaaahh!! plays to happen. Even with the AI turned up full, the awareness of the defence is still poor when compared with the PC version. For the novice or arcade gamer this is an excellent game , however very frustrating for serious fans.

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