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  Madden NFL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madden insisted that he would only give his endorsement to a game that was as close to real life football as possible.
When EA started to have NFL players on the cover of the Madden NFL games, some people speculate there was a "Madden curse" after noticing a pattern when Atlanta Falcons' star player, Michael Vick was injured during the 2003 preseason after appearing on the cover of Madden 2004.
The Madden NFL series each year is given annual updates that are generally small, sometimes a new feature or two, and updating the graphics slightly, all for the same $50 price as last year (now $60 on next-gen consoles).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madden_NFL_series   (1656 words)

  
 John Madden (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936 in Austin, Minnesota) is a former American football coach for the Oakland Raiders who later became a TV football announcer, author and commercial pitchman for various products and retail stores.
Madden became an assistant football coach for the Oakland Raiders in 1967.
Madden NFL is created at Electronic Arts Tiburon Studios in Orlando, Florida and consistently is one of the top selling games in North America every year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Madden_(football)   (961 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: National Football League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The NFL's greatest spurt in popularity came in the 1960s and 1970s, after the 1958 NFL Championship Game which went into overtime, and with the merger of the rival American Football League (1960-1969) which introduced major on- and off-the-field innovations that were eventually adopted by the NFL.
The 1958 NFL championship in New York -- considered by many to be the most-important game in the rise of the NFL -- drew record TV viewership and made national celebrities out of Unitas and his Baltimore Colts teammates.
Competitors of the Madden NFL series included ESPN NFL Football and NFL Blitz, However, in December 2004, EA signed an exclusive agreement with the NFL, meaning the Madden series would be the only franchise allowed to use NFL team and player names.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Football-League   (10424 words)

  
 Madden NFL series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Madden NFL is an American football video game produced by Electronic Arts (EA) aka EA Sports.
Madden insisted that he would only give his endorsement to a game that was as close to real life football aspossible.
The commentary is by John Madden teamed withhis regular broadcast partner, which meant Pat Summerall until heretired; the role is now filled by Al Michaels, John's regular broadcastpartner on Monday Night Football.
www.therfcc.org /madden-nfl-series-319165.html   (304 words)

  
 Review: Madden NFL 2000 (PC) -- Gaming Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In Madden Challenge mode, for instance, players are required to complete certain tasks(i.e., throw 3 TD's in a game, kick 5 field goals, sack the opponent's QB 2 times, etc.) in order to receive codes to unlock new features of the game (hidden teams, stadiums, and so forth).
Madden 2K continues this series' excellent statistical modeling, providing not only comprehensive stats between quarters, but, a full, press-box style report at the end of each game so players can evaluate their performance.
The Madden series has come a long way since its humble beginnings, and, has rested atop the football sim mountain for many years.
www.gamingvoice.com /gvmain/reviews/pc/madden2k.asp   (1063 words)

  
 National Football League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Although the NFL in 2004 is dominated at virtually every position by (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American athletes, that was not always the case.
Even after that, for many NFL teams the door would remain closed to fl (The position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team) quarterbacks through the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s.
The NFL Films presentation of this event in which the playing surface was referred to as "the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field" has been the source of endless imitation and parody.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/national_football_league.htm   (4134 words)

  
 GamingWorld X - Madden NFL 2004 Preview
In Madden NFL 2004, you can now quickly change parts of a play before and after the snap, courtesy of the commonly underused right analog stick on the Dual Shock 2.
Madden NFL 2004 alleviates this problem with a pivoting QB camera that always turns to keep the entire field in view when you approach the sidelines.
Madden NFL 2004 lets you tell the potential traders what you want; in essence, they come to you, and you save valuable time by not having to browse menus upon menus looking for a trader.
www.gamingworldx.com /gcn/MaddenNFL2004.shtml   (1432 words)

  
 Madden NFL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
EA has already released CGI renderings for Madden NFL 06, or Madden NFL: Next Generation as it is also known, which is scheduled to come out next year for the Xbox 360 next-generation gaming console from Microsoft.
The game is named after John Madden, a well-known football commentator and formerly a successful football coach during the 1970s.
The first NFL player to be on a Madden NFL cover was Eddie George of the Tennessee Titans, who graced the 2001 box.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Madden-NFL.htm   (817 words)

  
 3DAvenue.com - Gaming and tech, news and reviews
With limited television coverage of the NFL over here in Australia, Madden NFL has always been the means of my NFL fix, and each year I have been relatively pleased with the experience EA has offered.
If there is one series on the PC that has always been beyond industry standard in graphics when released, it is the Madden NFL series.
Madden NFL has always been a relatively complex game to master control wise, particularly if you are not an avid NFL gamer.
www.3davenue.com /index.php?mod=article&id=135   (1678 words)

  
 Madden NFL 2005 - TouchDS.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Madden video game series is one of the biggest sports franchises there is. If you have ever owned a console (beginning with the Sega Genesis or the SNES), and enjoy the game of American football, chances are that you have probably played a Madden NFL game.
Madden NFL 2005 for the Nintendo DS is a great game and offers up some great American Football gameplay for any fan.
Madden NFL 2005 gives you some remarkably good gameplay and many modes of play, which greatly adds to the experience.
www.touchds.com /forums/game-reviews/madden-nfl-2005-a-2247.html   (2390 words)

  
 Madden NFL footbal help
Madden NFL 2000 includes actual scaled player models based of their real-life counterparts.
Madden NFL 98 is the next edition from the previous Madden NFL 97 popular release.
Madden 98 includes a new feature the company calls Liquid AI which improves the knowledge and game play of the opposite computer player the player of the game may play.
www.computerhope.com /games/games/madden.htm   (179 words)

  
 PALGN 2005 :: Madden NFL 2006 Review
The biggest adjustment to the Madden franchise in 2006 is the new passing modes; QB Vision and Precision Passing.
Madden NFL has always been a decent looking title — it was one of the few games that actually looked “next-gen” back in 2001, with the release of the PlayStation 2.
As expected, John Madden and Al Michaels return to the commentary box, and once again provide a passable level of commentary, which tends to grate on your nerves after Madden points out the obvious for the 50th time in a match.
palgn.com.au /article.php?id=3173   (1606 words)

  
 John Madden (football)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John Earl Madden (born April 10 1936 in Austin Minnesota) is an American football coach who won the Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in the 1976 - 1977 season.
Madden has worked for three of four American broadcast television networks that have have had NFL broadcasts (CBS the Fox Network and more recently ABC).
Madden NFL is created at Electronic Tiburon Studios in Orlando Florida and consistently one of top selling every year.
www.freeglossary.com /John_Madden_%28football%29   (524 words)

  
 Madden NFL 2005 for DS Review - DS Madden NFL 2005 Review
Madden 2005 for the Nintendo DS: two screens, one stylus, lots of touchdowns.
Madden NFL 2005 makes decent use of the DS's other main hardware innovation--the stylus and touch screen.
Madden NFL 06 is a highly playable game of football, but in comparison with the leaps forward the franchise has made in previous years, 06 feels like a false start.
www.gamespot.com /ds/sports/maddennfl/review.html   (1179 words)

  
 Kids Domain - Review - Madden NFL 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With the exception of Sega's NFL 2K, which debuted on Dreamcast, the first of the 128-bit systems in 1999, Electronic Arts' Madden NFL series has always produced the best looking and best playing football videogames available to console gamers.
Madden NFL 2004 reaffirms the franchise's place at the top of the heap, sporting visuals that raise the bar for sports games as a whole, and some of the deepest play modes I've ever seen.
Players familiar with the series will land on their feet when they jump into Madden NFL 2004, adapting quickly to a control scheme that hasn't changed much since the Madden NFL 2003.
www.kidsdomain.com /reviews/product.php?pid=447   (450 words)

  
 Madden NFL series bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The National Football League series designed by EA Sports is known as the Madden NFL series.
The name of the series is derived from the name of John Madden, a leading sports commentator (currently on Monday Night Football).
He and Al Michaels are the commentators on the latest version, Madden NFL 2004, which is published on the PC, Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox, and Playstation 2 machines.
www.elexi.de /en/m/ma/madden_nfl_series.html   (289 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Madden NFL 2002 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With EA Sports' latest entry in the Madden NFL series for 2002, however, the company is attempting to bring back the fun console experience for computer gamers.
Madden NFL 2002 marks the thirteenth year of former Raiders' coach and football commentator John Madden's signature computer game series, dating back to the Apple II version in 1989.
Many of the game mechanics can be customized in the gameplay settings screen through a series of sliders, allowing you to adjust such elements as quarterback accuracy, pass knockdowns, punt accuracy, and tackling ability.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=mad2k2   (904 words)

  
 Madden NFL 2006 Preview - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
In light of all this, EA Sports is finally taking a look at an aspect of the Madden series that hasn't seen a significant upgrade in the past decade: the passing game.
After all, Madden NFL 2004 put a premium on defense with controls such as the defensive hit stick, so it's about time the developers took a look at the offensive game.
In Madden NFL 2006, the developers hope to change this by directly tying a quarterback's awareness rating to how he views the field through the QB vision system.
www.gamespot.com /ps2/sports/maddennfl2006/preview_6122221.html   (1033 words)

  
 AVault | PC | Madden NFL 2000 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Included in the box was a piece of paper showing all the cover art for every edition of the John Madden Football franchise that has been released, dating back to the series' earliest days, and I was taken aback by the scope of such a retrospective.
For those new to the series, Madden NFL is a simulation of professional football that allows you to take control of your favorite teams and players, take them into fully rendered stadiums in highly-detailed 3D, and run, pass, and plow your way to victory.
As the Madden series has evolved, it has made significant strides from simplified arcade gameplay to a complex, realistic representation of the way events play out on football fields across the country seventeen Sundays out of the year.
www.avault.com /reviews/review_temp.asp?game=madden2k   (1002 words)

  
 FIFA Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The FIFA Series is a popular series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by EA under the EA Sports label since late 1993, being one of the most profitable and well known video game franchises.
The indoor mode was not revived, the gameplay, although with increased fluidity, was generally frustrating, but the increasing number of websites dedicated to the game and a larger number of leagues (which came to a problem when the Portuguese League rights' owners tried to pull the game out of the shelves locally) ensured good sale.
Developers of the FIFA series made a complete overhaul of the game's engine for the 2006 installment of the game, asserting it has dramatically increased the control of play, having rewritten more than half the programming code for the game which was released in October 6, 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FIFA_Series   (2243 words)

  
 GamerFeed : Reviews : Microsoft : Madden NFL 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Madden NFL 2005 has hit the gaming gridiron and like an injured NFL superstar rehabbing during the off season, this game has been poked, prodded, tweaked, tested and improved.
Madden carries weight in NFL gaming circles and EA Sports should thank their lucky stars that they have had the coach on their side.
Madden NFL 2005 is my favorite NFL football game of the year and it sacks ESPN NFL 2K5 in the backfield for a loss.
microsoft.gamerfeed.com /gf/reviews/411   (1684 words)

  
 News: Madden NFL 2005 Trailers - GamersHell.com
In its 15th year and with close to 37 million copies sold, Madden NFL Football continues to dominate as the most popular football videogame franchise of all time with a combination of innovative new features and the most authentic football gameplay.
Madden NFL Football is currently displayed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame-the only videogame to receive this honor.
Madden NFL 2005 delivers unprecedented depth and upgrades, with hundreds of new animations, even more Franchise Mode additions, major enhancements to EA SPORTS online, and the ability to create your own NFL super fan in the all-new Create-A-Fan feature.
www.gamershell.com /news/14203.html   (915 words)

  
 IGN: Madden NFL 2002 Review
Career stats are kept for every player in the NFL during a franchise, including their real-life stats in every year they've played leading up to this upcoming 2001 season.
The first time one glances at Madden NFL 2002, most won't notice the differences between it and the 2001 version, but once you sit down and take a deeper look you'll soon find that there have been some improvements made across the board including some in key areas.
Which, depending on how you look at it is a pretty good feat in and of itself as Madden NFL 2001 was and still is an amazing graphical achievement that hasn't yet been equaled by any other developer of a next-generation football game.
ps2.ign.com /articles/166/166228p1.html   (2533 words)

  
 Madden NFL 06 - Nintendo GameCube - allCube.com
The MADDEN NFL series is back with MADDEN NFL 06, which includes everything fans love about the series while introducing new passing controls and a new mode.
MADDEN NFL 06 includes all the gameplay modes that fans have come to expect and enjoy from the series, such as franchise, quick play, owner mode, online play, and a handful of mini-games.
All in all, MADDEN NFL 06 includes everything players love about the series while completely revamping the passing system and adding a new gameplay mode.
www.allcube.com /pricesearch/description.asp?id=713538   (387 words)

  
 Madden NFL 2005 Preview for Xbox - Gamer-Talk.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ever since the release of Madden 2004, developers over at Tiburon have been working hard, spending endless hours coming up with innovative ideas to help make the series even better than it was last year.
Year in and year out, the Madden franchise always gets top honors in the video game football market, but they’ve always been able to top their previous efforts in the newest editions.
The first and most noticeable adjustment made to the Madden series is defensive play.
www.gamer-talk.net /preview125.html   (1347 words)

  
 Nintelligent Network | Madden NFL 06
The developers of the Madden series try every year to improve upon game controls, Aritificial Intelligence, and other extras such as character creation in an attempt to continue to make the franchise feel fresh to the gaming audience.
Their previous entry in the Madden series on the DS was generally well recieved, but most reviewers felt that it didn't fully live up to the high standards of the series.
We have 6 screenshots for Madden NFL 06.
www.nintelligent.net /game3856.php   (267 words)

  
 Madden NFL Series Games, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Madden Wishlist Offers the gamer an opportunity to submit ideas for the development of future Madden games.
Madden Nation Game news, leagues and forums (registration required to view).
Madden Xtreme Offers a forum and ladder rankings for members.
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