Madden NFL 08 - PlayStation 3

I decided to boycot Madden games when they took the rights to the NFL from the other game companies and if I hadn't received this as a birthday gift from my girlfriend, I wouldn't have given it a chance. I've been playing it everyday since the 14th of August. I absolutely love the juke stick/hit stick as it makes running so much easier. In actuality, I like every aspect of the gameplay. It's really easy to pick up on the controls and audibles are quite easy to manage with the on-screen menus. The team introductions at the beginning of each game really gets you pumped to play. Did I mention graphics were pretty fine looking? Sure, they look better in the replays than they do during the actual plays, but the full capabilities of the PS3 haven't been discovered yet. I would have liked to see better pre-game, halftime, and post-game "shows". Or at least a weekly show covering the entire league. This is the only reason that I gave Madden 08 4 stars instead of 5. I'd definitely recommend football lovers to get this. Great job on EA's part!

After having purchased Madden on a next gen system for the first time this year i can safely say it's one of the best sports experiences I've had yet. But after having recently played the version for XBOX 360, I'm a bit disappointed that EA did not include 60 frames per second on the PS3 version as opposed to the 30 fps that it currently has. Besides that though, the gameplay is significantly better than any iteration of Madden yet. We're talking group tackles that look real, non-sketchy animations that have plagued previous versions, and the Icon feature adds some depth to the game. This years version expands of Franchise and Legend Mode which is a welcomed addition. Ultimately Madden will not disappoint if you're a sports gaming fan or football fan. A good pickup.

I've been a Madden fan since it was on the Genesis back in '90. I know my football and when I bought this Madden for the PS3, I was VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!! Yes, the graphics are good, but I've always been a gameplay type person. The game play isn't good and the frame rate is very slow. Everything is a half a second slow. You press "X" to throw to a wide receiver and a half a second later, he throws. By that time, the defense is in position. I don't like how the ball goes through a defenders hands and wrist when he's trying to knock a pass down. On a scale from 1-10, I give this game a 6.5...7 at the most. I played it on the 360, and it plays very smooth and has a very good frame rate. The PS3, in my opinion, is a better system, so I don't understand why the frame rate couldn't be better on the PS3. I took the game back and purchased Madden for the PS2, so Im happy for now. If you are a TRUE Madden expert, I wouldn't recommend this game.

I love Madden football. That in itself has made me buy the game since the 90's. It's still a good game, but weak for an PS3 game. Not much different than any other Madden PS2 game. Taking away the ability to watch my team play without my assistance is disappointing. I like the franchise control I have, but having to download the roster to keep it from freezing up is a hassle. Also, the more seasons you play the weaker the player rating becomes. IE, by the time I got to year 2017(I got a lot of time on my hands being disabled), there were no players that exceeded the 70's in the draft or free agency. Almost as if programmers were forced into quantity rather than quality. To me the PS3 Madden 08 is not worth the extra 10-20 dollars with the expectation of even a better year as has always been the case. It's still fun, but I'm not as happy as I hoped. Buy the PS2 version of Madden 08. Yesm, I own it too!

This game lives up to the whole "Madden Reputation" as in its the same game we've all come to love. But then again its the same ole madden we've been playin for years jus newer and better graphics. One of the things they hav fixxed in this years version is that the Bomb uptop to T.O. doesnt work anymore, but then again they also made this game a little too DEFENSE DOMINATED. Its fun to compete and talk trash to yours friends like you always do in your home madden games but thats all its really good for. After a while it gets borin and jus another game to put on ur shelf and brag about havin to your friends. Hopefully next year's versoin will hav some new things to kick it up a notch.

+excellent graphics, the uniforms are nicely colored to depict their real life counterparts uniforms, the SHINYNESS of the uniforms is a bitt too much but that doesnt matter. +excellent overall presentation, period. the menu's are easy to navigate, the team select screen is Very Attractive and everything is candy for the eyes. +the running game is great, its like real football when the RB pounds it up the middle for a pickup of 5, excellent job... -half the time i hiked the ball, i was tackled by 3 defensive linemen within a half of a second, it was as if my offensive line was not there at all :l -there is a glitch where if you throw the ball to a reciever and a defender sticks his hands infront of the ball to intercept it, the ball will GO THROUGH BOTH OF HIS HANDS AND WRISTS and into the hands of the reciever...and iv watched the replay and slowed it down enough to see the ball travel through both of the defenders hands/wrists....terrible. this glitch is actually in NCAA Football 2008 as well...but that glitch is farrr worse than this one. -some of the players movements are not realistic at all, they run like theyve got something stuck in their butts, very mechanical movement. -the sideline players and the crowd look terrible...especially for the 360, they could have done better than that... -as well as the faces of the players, theyre very Rock-like and do a poor job of capturing emotion. All-Pro 2k8 did an EXCELLENT job at this... this was a great rental but because of the ball traveling through hands glitch..and for the fact that im STILL playing NFL2K5 Religiously...and tampering with the idea of purchasing all pro 2k8 now that its only 30 bucks at wal-mart :l this game is an easy skip over. NOT THAT ITS NOT FUN...if youv got two players and you want to get a game going, this game is great for that...but in my opinion all-pro is graphicly and gameplay-wise a better game...as well as nfl2k5... great looking game though :)

This game is a great game. A must buy for the sports fans. BUT BUYERS BEWARE!!! This game is an offensive game. Defense is easy to pass on for the most part and hard to run on. I have been playing madden since '98 and loved it every year and this year is no different. The online play is good except for the kicking which is nothing new to the series. One thing i suggest for playing online is going to www.leaguedaddy.com and trying to find a league to play in. These leagues set up schedules, rankings, playoff systems. Its just like an actual NFL season. They do the same thing for NCAA.

I play madden alot for the ps3 and when a new game is coming out it is like christmas for me, but when i got this game a can easily say i was dissapointed. the graphics are great and the gameplay is great but the plays are complicated and i can barely see the playbook, and picking the formations was tough to figure out as well. Other things i dint like about this game is that there wasnt any good celebrating after a game. there was nothing that grabbed my eye. The super bowl game didnt even have any kind of differnt celebrations like the older games had. So yes the the gameplay was good but there just wasnt any other things in this game that really caught may attention or wanted me to play the game more.