From: Electronic Arts Average Rating: Binding: Video Game ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: DVD-Video Label: Electronic Arts Model: 15879 Platform: Mac OS X Release Date: October 09, 2007
Features:
With the new Read and React System, new player skill icons identify on-field strengths and weaknesses, providing an immediate read on what your opponant is giving you. Quickly react to exploit weaknesses before every play.
Take on an army of tackling dummies in an all-new skill drills mini-game designed to teach you the game of football. A progressive learning system teaches you how to use game controls under pressure, while advanced and multiplayer modes allow you to refine your skills or challenge a friend.
All-new player moves, including auto-motion and low-hitting tackles, plus ultra-smooth gameplay provide the most realistic NFL gaming experience ever.
From game-winning touchdowns to 4th quarter goal line stands, enjoy every play in stunning 16 - 9 widescreen detail.
Product Description: Feel what it's like to be a field general making key personnel decisions on both sides of the ball during the game's biggest moments in Madden NFL 08. Quickly identify your strongest players on the field before every snap then move them into position to make game-changing momentum-altering plays. Play to your team's strengths by immediately reading your opponent's schemes and reacting to the action as soon as the ball is snapped. Create mismatches and exploit weaknesses as you read and react with Madden NFL 08.
Get the upgrades for the OS I purchased this game and initially was very disappointed. I have an IMAC 24 inch screen with the upgraded graphics card and 4G of ram, so I did not expect any issues. After downloading the patch for this game, i was still seeing crappy graphics and a weird green tint as well as almost like mirror reflections coming off the players. I then read on a blog that you also need to download the latest patch for the Leopard operating system to remove this particular problem. I was skeptical that this would help, but once I did this, I fired up the game again and everything worked perfectly. My only problem now is trying to learn the game all over again, as I previously played Madden 2002 on a Windows system. Quite a few changes since the version I am used to playing.
It's Madden The most annoying thing about Madden 08 is you've got to carry the blessed DVD around with you to launch the game. That's not a problem when you're at home, but if you travel and want to just kick back and do something mindless - DOH! You didn't bring the DVD, you can't play the game. Performance on a 2.2ghz MacBook Pro is good. I kill processor intensive tasks (like BOINC) before starting and have had no problems. Haven't seen any image distortions that I heard complaints about. And, it's running fine under Leopard, too. Overall, it's Madden. You get what you expect. The limited ability to create new plays is still annoying, but it's an arcade game, not a coaching simulator after all.
Awful display I have a Mac Pro with a 24" display. The game display is terrible! As another reviewer stated, the menu is garbled and some menu items can't be seen at all. How could this not be foreseen? And as far as I know, there is no fix to be had. I love Madden but don't buy this game until they fix everything.
Buggy Vaporware EA chose to port this to Mac themselves rather than give it to Aspyr. The inexperience shows. Fraudulently sold as an online game but online didn't work until a patch on Nov 22. EA should have tested it a lot more before it was released. Shame on Apple for selling it at Apple stores before it was ready - don't tell me no one ever tried it. After the first dozen patches, it could be lots of fun but disappointing for now.
Awful on new iMac I have a new 24' iMac and the program will not run. The text gets all garbled up so navigation is impossible. You can't even get a game started because the text is superimposed giberish. On the Apple site others report the same thing on iMacs. Really bad to release a program with such major flaws that it is unusable on the latest systems.
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