Madden NFL 08 - PlayStation 2

Almost every year Madden gets better and better. Included in this years title, there were two new game modes: fantasy challenge and a game mode to improve your skills. I was really excited to play fantasy challenge and it was worth the excitement. In this game mode you have the option to pick you favorite team and either have a mini fantasy draft, or use the current roster. For a long story short...this gamemode is worth playing as soon you get the game..(unless you want to continue superstar mode). The game mode to improve your skills is 100 times better than regular, boring practice. If you are new to the game or just want to get better, the rushing drill will shurley tune your skills in that area the most. Unfortunately I did not get to play this game alot. This is now a warning to Potential Madden Buyers for the PS2 and has the older PS2 model (bulky, and the big kind) of the PS2. Madden 08 CRASHED my PS2 (older model). I called Sony Cutomer Support and gave them all the imformation about the game and the PS2. Later they said a few people had called in earlier and said the same thing. They all were playing Madden 08, had the older version of the PS2, and a couple weeks later the system crashed. So all im saying is BEWARE... Besides this, Madden is a great football game besides that the gameplay looks and feel the same. Oh yeah I almost forgot to mention that a new feature called player icon helps you identify your key players on the team from the average, helps you indentify the men from the boys, the elite from the scrubs.... well you get the point! Use this to know player's strengths and weakenesses. There are also BRAND NEW teams to unlock. Theese include the Decievers...a team who cheats to get an advantage and sometimes they could go for it on 5th down! (yes I mean 5th down!), and there are other teams with special advantages but Im not going to give that away. Overall, Madden 2008 is a great game to buy. It is a much better buy than All Pro Football 2008. But staying on topic you should really get this game.

I've been playing Madden since the early 90's, so it really wasn't a stretch to think that I would buy Madden '08 when it came out. I will admit, this ritual has lost some luster for me over the years. If you caught me five years ago I would have been camping outside the store at midnight, but now I'm a bit less enthusiastic. Maybe I'm just getting older. The game itself is as solid as ever. If it ain't broke, don't fix it and Madden is certainly good at that. Over the years they have experimented with all aspects of the game and they have kept the good and tossed the bad. Fine tuning for so many years has created an outstanding game year to year and '08 is no exception. They have many excellent game modes, including some new ones this year that allow you to control your create a charatcer deeper into the game than ever before. Since my forte is the Franchise mode, I'll focus mainly on that. The 30 year Madden franchise mode is maybe one of the top 5 inventions of my generation. It's incredibly detailed and addicting and if you know football, it makes it all the more impressive. One of the best additions to this years Franchise mode is the ability in the offseason to have two shots at Free Agents, once before the NFL draft and once after. So if you don't get the linebacker you were hoping for in the draft, you can pick up a stopgap in the free agent pool. A lot of times drafting a younger player allows teams to cut a high priced veteran. I welcome those veterans and round out my squad. The trading is a lot more fair and the game just has that sense that you're playing someone as opposed to a machine that you can manipulate and take advantage of. All in all Madden is what it's always been, tremendous.

Madden 08 is a wonderful and fun game to play. Madden has tons of new and fun features to choose from, The all new fantasy chalendge lets you creath a rookie, or choose a rookie from the 2007 draft. You can make him a legend and have fun doing it. The graphics of 08 are really well done. it doesn't look like a video game sometimes. It looks so real. The game play is also better than in the past. Its much more smoother and realistic. The only bad thing about the game is the season mode. Its just like last year. If you were to get any game to play, get Madden 08! I did and I'm not disapointed!!!

The Madden series continues to amaze me... Each year I think to myself, "can this next Madden really be that much better then the last?" And each time, the answer is yes! Madden 08 supplies us with the football gameplay we all have grown to love. Now we new features such as a the Superstar mode, I find it hard to run out of new things to do in this game. The graphics are, as usual, very nice, and the gameplay is quite smooth. It only makes me wonder, what will they do next year? Im sure they wont let us down then either. Buy Madden 08, you wont be disappointed.

I love the madden games they just get better and better each year. there is always something new to look forward to for the next year. this year they didnt really add any new features. they even got ride of the NFLstreet moves. over all i still love this game.

Madden '08 for Playstation 2 failed to impress me. Don't get me wrong its a good game, but it is almost identical to '07. The biggest difference is the rosters, but if that really bothers you, you could just upgrade the rosters on '07. I think, that with ps3 out, they just arent putting as much effort into the ps2 games. So, I wouldn't recommend buying this. I just don't see it as worth spending so much money on. If anything, you should probably upgrade systems because they will just continue to make lackluster games for the now outdated system.

this game is better then i thought it would be the tackles are great and the new hit stick is cool so i give this game 4 stars

This is a must buy if you love football. I love the new features of the superstar, franchise, and the fantasy challenge.