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[Sho_Nuff82]

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THE BEST

The Madden Ambulance

Signature Style

Bribe the Ref

Passing Windows

The Wiimote

Create-a-Player

JumboTron Base Brawls

Franchise Mode

The "Duck Hunt" Dog

THE WORST

Unlockables

Play-By-Play Announcing

The Glowing Puck

Licensed Soundtracks

Exclusive Licenses

First-Person Football

Liquid AI

Isomotion

Create-a-Fan

Sweat

Some choice quotes:

Sure, he landed Randy Moss for two magic beans on the dollar. And yes, he's the architect behind pro football's only current dynasty. But so what? You could do a better job than New England Patriots vice president of player personnel Scott Pioli. And you know this because your Patriots squad features a backfield of LaDanian Tomlinson and Adrian Peterson, with Terrell Owens bookending Moss.

Create-a-player also deserves kudos for permitting you to conjure up the scrubs often left off in-game rosters -- how dare 2K Sports forget to include Roger Mason Jr. -- as well as incoming draft picks, the better to play with while anxiously awaiting next year's roster update game. As for the gamers who just have to re-create Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, year after year? They're covered, too. In sports gaming, it's always 1998 somewhere.

Farewell, old-school game pads: Not since Lawrence Taylor turned Joe Theismann's leg into a masterwork of nonrepresentational modern art has something sports-related been rendered so instantly obsolete. Oh, and don't get us started on the Wii Fit balance board.

Look, games are expensive. Life is short. Humans weren't meant to log more play hours than the dudes on "Madden Nation" in order to use Barry Sanders; no one, not even Guantanamo detainees, should have to win 10 races in a Honda Civic just to get a sniff of a hot Euro supercar. Heck, we drive a Honda Civic every day. "Gran Turismo" is our one fleeting chance to grab the wheel of something better.

Nothing embodies the most depressing trend of next-gen sports gaming -- graphics over game play, shiny normal-mapped paint whitewashing hoary, same ol' game engines -- more than the inexplicable emphasis on painstakingly modeled perspiration.

 

[bdoughty]

Yea another dumb list of opinions.

THE BEST

The Madden Ambulance - It was in the game for what two years or so? Innovation?

Signature Style

Bribe the Ref - What?

Passing Windows - At the time it was good

The Wiimote - :lol No comment

Create-a-Player

JumboTron Base Brawls - Eh?

Franchise Mode

The "Duck Hunt" Dog



THE WORST

Unlockables

Play-By-Play Announcing - What?

The Glowing Puck

Licensed Soundtracks

Exclusive Licenses

First-Person Football - Must be a Madden Fan - First Person football was good, not great but far from bad.

Liquid AI

Isomotion - Really?

Create-a-Fan

Sweat - How is this bad?



How the VIP system from 2Ksports is not on the GOOD list shows how BAD the list is.

 

[Gamecocks625]

The Wiimote - :lol No comment

Sweat - How is this bad?

Um...ok. BD, what happend to your head? :lol

 

[rollingstart]

I may hate on Fight Night from time to time, but they should have brought up analog punching controls.

 

[ggnoobIGN]

Bribe the Ref
A long-forgotten feature from "Mutant League Football" on the Sega Genesis -- what, you were thinking "NBA Live 07"? -- bribing the ref worked exactly like it sounds: Once per half, gamers could pay off the game official, who then would call bogus penalties on the other squad. Of course, the opposing team subsequently could call an audible to murder the dirty ref, good for a 5-yard penalty. Which, come to think of it, seems a little excessive.


:lol :lol :lol

 

[Ninja Scooter]

so sports games were better w/o play by play?

 

[DMczaf]

so sports games were better w/o play by play?

They better show Joe Montana's Sportstalk Football some more love!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnvs5B_8ISo