Madden 08 Features

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NEXT GEN

1. Editable Players
2. Co-op
3. Better physics (make weight a factor)
4. Real Gang Tackling
5. More announcers and better announcing.
6. Training Camp
7. Fantasy draft in Franchise mode
8. More celebrations TD / First Down / Sack
9. Pre-game halftime and Postgame shows.. Sportscenter- NFL live
10. Spectator Mode online
11. Hall of fame in franchise mode
12. Better records tracking and displaying.
13. Ring of honor and retired jerseys
14. Option to redo the draft and free agency at the start of a franchise
15. Better Draft classes
16. Option to have expansion teams join the league.
17. Player lock and color chooser for Co-op games (users pick the POSITION on offense and defense they want to start on and get to choose thier color from a spectrum and save it in a profile)
18. Custom playbooks and custom plays. (In Franchise too)
19. CPU vs CPU (played out where you can watch it) SIM
20. Online Franchises
21. Better Contracts with Incentive Bonuses and real NFL structure possibilities.
22. Create a team with a lot more options.
23. The AI overall needs improving as it always does.. in the follwing areas
    1. Coverage
    2. Play Calling
    3. Knowing when to try to kick FGS
    4. Clock management
    5. Blocking
24. Save Replays
25. Add more to the draft
26. Total customization of controls (and put slide and dive on different buttons)
27. Improve the no Huddle (more plays)
28. Cut to other games
29. Increase contract amounts faster (shouldn't take 5 minutes to max out a contract)

CURRENT GEN

1. Better physics (make weight a factor)
2. Real Gang Tackling
3. More announcers and better announcing.
4. More celebrations TD / First Down / Sack
5. Pre-game halftime and Postgame shows.. Sportscenter- NFL live
6. Spectator Mode online
7. Hall of fame in franchise mode
8. Better records tracking and displaying.
9. Ring of honor and retired jerseys
10. Option to redo the draft and free agency at the start of a franchise
11. Better Draft classes
12. Option to have expansion teams join the league.
13. Player lock and color chooser for Co-op games (users pick the POSITION on offense and defense they want to start on and get to choose thier color from a spectrum and save it in a profile)
14. Custom playbooks and custom plays. (In Franchise too)
15. Online Franchises
16. Better Contracts with Incentive Bonuses and real NFL structure possibilities.
17. More options for Create Teams (longer names more logos)
18. The AI overall needs improving as it always does.. in the follwing areas
    1. Coverage
    2. Play Calling
    3. Knowing when to try to kick FGS
    4. Clock management
    5. Blocking
19. Add more to the draft
20. Total customization of controls (and put slide and dive on different buttons)
21. Improve the no Huddle (more plays)
22. Cut to other games
23. Increase contract amounts faster (shouldn't take 5 minutes to max out a contract)

[U-be_the*judge]

Tall receivers out jumping smaller DBs

[Kevin71]

Originally Posted by U-be_the*judge

Tall receivers out jumping smaller DBs

I never seem to have a problem with this.

[lancelot]

I would like to see the create a playbook have more to it, such as creating play action plays, draw plays, block and release plays, and trick plays.

I would also like to be able to pursuade free agents to join your team with money more easily. Instead of sitting there for a half-hour waiting for the money to go up.

Another thing that would make the game more realistic is having players react differently to things. Such as trades, new coaches, and maybe just having off days and really good days.

A thing they could also improve on is making different players react to how practice went and if you dont do practice they don't do as well in the game.

Created playbooks/plays available for online play.

[jbrodie1111]

Custom leagues of more than 32 teams. I really want to use Created teams in a league setting with the NFL teams. If they are worried about the same players being use on different teams, simply increase the pool. The way I see it, if they can have enough room for all those players in the NCAA game, it seems they could do the same in Madden -- or do the game graphics stand in the way of this?

[Disturbed]

I want to see a defensive playbook that it totally build around the zone blitz scheme.

Of course allowing customized playbooks would fix this as well since I could just create my own.

[T.O.F.N.]

Originally Posted by jbrodie1111

Custom leagues of more than 32 teams. I really want to use Created teams in a league setting with the NFL teams. If they are worried about the same players being use on different teams, simply increase the pool. The way I see it, if they can have enough room for all those players in the NCAA game, it seems they could do the same in Madden -- or do the game graphics stand in the way of this?

NCAA Football is made to replicate NCAA Football.

Madden is made to replicate NFL. There are 32 teams in the NFL and some NFL Europe teams as well in a seperate league. I don't see why they would need more. 32 is enough for the NFL league, no need to add more.

...I wish Orlando would get a pro NFL team (

Who knows, maybe one day.

[coreyj2007]

i think madden2008 fore ps2,xbox,xbox360,ps3 they should make it posible to have big brake away play's that will keep you on your feet.what i mean by that is(ps2) a big brake away is when i do a power toss to the side that has just cb/& ss,i highlight stick the first guy & juke or highlight stick the second,& im gone fore a 30,40,50 yard run,come on,make play's more exsiting.man!!!!! I have to go but i will post the rest when i get back
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BRAKE AWAY & ECITEMENT

i think madden2008 fore ps2,xbox,xbox360,& ps3 should have better,and more exciting brake away play's,and should have them more often.LIKE ON NCAA they have that mommentum thing that make's you players play harder in certin situation,in madden2008 they should have something like a inpulse meter on every player that make them play harder fore a certin amount of time,that mean's they would run harder,hit harder,cut and juke better,cach ball that look inpossible to cach exe.,but keep it realistic,something like a ball carrier brakeing 7 tackle's in one play should happen like.....every blue moon,like when your in a franchise and your record is 10-5 or 9-6 & it's 4th quarter 2:00 min. left on the clock and your trailing behind 24-21,and you have to win to make the wild card or playoffs,you get my drift.
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MADDEN 2008 FOR(PS2,PS3,XBOX,XBOX360,GAME CUBE EXE.)

THE QB

i think the developers MADDEN 2008 shoud give the gamer's more controll over the ball carrier or who ever the gamer is at the time.i think they've been doing good whith that when it comes to the QB,with the percision passing,QB vission,being able to scramble out of the pocket,pump fakeing,throwing the ball out of bound's when thing's get to messed up,changing rout's at the line,slideing you protection,motioning player's,& pointing right where you want your wr to be if their rout was messed up after the ball is snaped,i think they've gave us gamer's pritty much complete controll over the QB and what the QB does,
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GIVING GAMER'S MORE CONTROLL
RB'S & WR'S

(I-BALL CONTROL) FOR THE RUNNINGBACK'S IN MADDEN2008

RUNNINGBACK'S-we want more than just 4 option's with the runningbak's(#1.highlight stick,#2.stiff arm,#3.the juke/spin.,#4.& the dubble cut).come on,give us more then that.insted of useing the triangle button fore covering up the ball,something the ball carrier should atumaticly do,they should use it fore something more useful,like,when you get tackled behind the first down line you can strech you'r arm's out before you'r knee's hit the ground to get the first down.also,as a runningback you should be able to reverse feild every so often,o and take away the poor brake tackle system,a runningback shoudn't go down because somebody barely grabed his shoe or tuches one of his leg's,this is the pro's man....if you cant brake thoe's kinda tackle's then you probly wouldn't make it to the pro's,so if they can make the brake tackle system more realistic that would be good.also they should give gamer's more freedome with the way they want to juke,insted of just a simple highlight stick,hop back,stiff arm,spin,juke left or juke right wich to me is repetitive and can get verry boring,they should put an(I-ball controll)where you can combined juke's together whatever way you want,,,well that's all that come's to mind right now at least,if something els come's up i'll post it

[CharioTitan]

Madden 2008 needs:
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Madden 2008 needs:

#1: For EA to stop recycling the same features and trying to make them seem new. For instance, the Lead Blocker feature is awfully similar to the Playmaker feature of Madden...05 (I think it was on 05). And the Highlight Stick really isn't much of an improvement at all, they added like two new RB animations to the previous list of RB moves and now it's a new feature? Gimme a break!!

#2: More Broken tackles. They added all these new moves for RBs but then they still get tackled just as easily as ever. If gang tackling is ever implemented (I mean BROUGHT BACK and then implemented), you would need more guys hitting the RB and not actually tackling him, so you could get pile ups of two, three guys to bring him down. I really don't know why they removed the few gang tackle animations they had in the first place.

#3: Better simulated stats. When u simulate, players don't play well. Linebackers will have like 50 tackles, that sucks. An average NFL linebacker puts up a good 80+ tackles a season. And defensive ends who have put up 10+ sacks for the last 5 years, will suddenly only put up like 6 sacks a season.

#4: More influence from coaches Coaches are really just a non-factor at this point in the game.

#5: I know this has already been mentioned, but for God's sake, give us a way to increase salaries faster!!! Do the people at EA not realize how much pro athlete's get paid nowadays?

[pimmyfresh]

they gotta fix sideline catches for the recievers. its once in a good while every time a reciever makes a proper sideline catch. either they dont attempt to keep their feet in bounds or they tip toe it but their already out of bounds...... o and i wanna see cornerbacks use the sideline to their advantage and guide reciever their.

[big hitter]

i think you should be able to change the appearance of your guy after you make him.
EX. hair,sleeves