Madden 2008 Wish List

Submitted by James Munn on December 9, 2006 – 9:00 am11 Comments

BOOM! I’ve been removed from the purchase of football games since 2K’s unsportsmanlike exit from the genre. While Madden is a serviceable entry of football, none of the newest releases have even come close to NFL 2K5. Of course, everyone’s got a different idea of what a football game should be, I would just like to AT LEAST have online leagues. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

IGN.com has an interesting Madden ’08 wish list in preparation for 2K’s upcoming Legends football franchise. It’s a pretty extensive list and a few of them are no-brainers. As I mentioned, Online leagues are a glaring omission, as well as Home Field Advantage which is already in EA’s NCAA Football.

After seeing the list below, what do you think is the most important feature? Is there something not shown here that you’d like to see?

Everything Old is New Again: “

Matthew Mac

For NFL 2KXX to come back. But maybe I’m still just bitter…
James

They’re planning a 2K football game to be released this year, so we’ll see if your wish comes true.
Donald

I agree with everything that was said in this blog…but i also have suggestions of my own….
how about they should change the fact that slow corners cant keep up with burners such as steve smith or rand moss…and the 15 foot leap is rediculous. When ur the qb and running away from a defender the cpu automatically makes u stop running and if ur already in a throwing motion they make u stop throwing before ur even touched and that causes a terrible throw which could cost u the game…and the fact that ur defensive guys get pancaked every single play….or how about be magnetically sucked into a block…if im running away from a blocker my guy shouldnt turn around (by himself) and automatically get blocked and because of it too many cpu big plays happen….with the hitstick should come big hits right…well what about when im standing right next to the guy i wanna hit and my defender just dives face first to the ground (whats up with that)…there should be more kinds of hit sticks tackles depending on what angle u have on the ball carrier…well thats all i have for right now but i might be back with more….thnx
jj dunham

in the superstar mode they need to let you be able to purchase house, cars, clothes and jewerly.but nothing over the edge.let the superstar be more personable.also cut down on all the pratice.let it be like one or two sessions a week during reg season.
Travis Zinn

I think these ideas are awesome i think you should post or enter ur ideas to EAsports in some way bc i would love these new features
Jarrod

Hitting: When a player is being tackeld and he is still standing another team member should be able to come over and level him if he hasn’t hit the ground yet causeing hit more likely to fumble.
Lajuan

I like all of the suggestions thier great but I have something to add. I think Madden should put a Halftime show In the game like in 2k5 that was the tightist thing about the game with Berman going over all of the big plays that happened in the game.
Lajuan

I like all of the suggestions thier great but I have something to add. I think Madden should put a Halftime show In the game like in 2k5 that was the tightist thing about the game with Berman going over all of the big plays that happened in the game.
mugsy

Madden needs to keep the current features that it has in the 2005 edition but should delete the quarterback vision and the superstar nonsense as well as 2006′s lead-blocking addition. Afterwards, they should add milestone statistics for career achievement in frachise mode weather it be an NFL record or a team record. Upon breaking these records there should be some sort of in-game video that commemorates the achievement whether it be passing yards, sacks, etc…instead of just the end-game display of single game or single season records, which by the way need to remain the same. Last but not least, you should be able to use the classic teams in franchises so you can edit the players and their names to match the actual team that it was. Then the game will be perfect.
mugsy

oh…I forgot, It needs Superbowl/play-off milestone statistics as well; teamwise and leaguewise. Then it will be perfect!
pete

how about getting rid of that bug where the cpu qb throws fumbles and safeties all the time in SS mode!! You should also be able to turn off having to watch your team play when you have the CPU user turned on and you aren’t on the field (talk about wasting my time!!). cpu controlled qb’s should have a better grasp of switching running play directions etc. at the line when the def is obviously linning up in one direction. i also agree whole heartedly with what james munn says about preseason cuts, especially in SS mode where i constantly outplay the first choice player in my position on the team and still he gets started ahead of me all through the regular season!!!!! how annoying is that!!!