GameOn! Review’s Madden 2009
Monday, September 1st, 2008Welcome To Part Two Of GameOn! The Section dedicated to all you gamers out there. This is ya boy VizX and I’ve got the latest and greatest football title to talk to you about.
Who else but Madden 2009
This title has already released this past August 12th, It dropped in Europe on August 15th and The Spanish version will be dropping on September 17th and with this title there are two new Booth Commentators for PS3. Cris Collinsworth and Tom Hammond. Unfortunately for everybody else, Al Michaels and John Madden are the current listed commentator’s due to memory limitations. There are a few new looks in the game as well, changes to the coin toss and pre-game introduction have been made,a brand new Banner System, Pre-game visuals have been added for the football enthusiast such as Stadium fly-in to help you feel like your watching the game from your own living room. The game is also getting new camera angles.
’09 is coming at you with a new enhanced Play Calling System. With picture-in-picture play calling, it streamlines important information to the user that includes Instant Replay, Stats and Accessibility hints. Also on demand access and the ability to make substitutions directly on play call gives more flexibility to the play call screen. And To Add a reality spin to it, this new madden comes with improved sidelines features like more people on the sidelines, including a variety of security, coaches, and players. These Characters have more activity and emotions than previous versions of the game as well to make this feel as real as possible so if you fumble the ball why dont you get a gander at your coaches face and let the emotions tell you what he is thinking(watch out buc’s fans! lol). A Few Other Features w/o giving away the greatness of this new title are things like:
- Returnable missed field goals
- Bobble catches
- Pass tuning
- Slide protection
- Smart routes
- Post play continuation
- Post play help-ups
- Ball carrier combo moves
- Live pre-play defense
- New wrap-up tackling system
- Improved foot pinning
- New catch system
- Realistic fatigue
- Improved gang tackles
- True penalty based animations
- New fumble system
- New tackling engine & animations
- Realistic momentum with new locomotion system
I mean the list can go on and on!! Lets not forget the Rewind feature too, Say you are playing one of your friends, you make a hail mary to a key receiver and he goes for 6, well your friend wants a 2nd chance to shut you down… he hits rewind and it literally rewinds it back to the line of scrimmage and you have to try again to make it before you get sacked!! Thats going to make for interesting at home rivalries!
Roberto Garza, the starting guard for the Chicago Bears, will be the cover athlete for the the Spanish language version, Madden NFL 09 en Español.
We all know that Brett Farve has retired and then un-retired and was traded off to the NY Jets about five days before Madden NFL 09 was officially released in North America, the game’s cover still features Favre wearing a Packers uniform. Instead of reissuing the packaging, EA has made available a free alternate cover of Favre in a Jets uniform from their website that players are able to download and print which I think is awesome, hell if I pickup this game you better believe ill be printing this new cover, though only PS2/3 is available for the new covers!
Prices? For XBOX360/PS3 users you are looking at 59.99, PS2/PSP your wallets will lose $40.00,DS users its 29.99 and Nintendo Wii Users(Madden ’09 “All-Play”) its 49.99. If you want the Madden XX Years Collectors Edition(PS3/XB360) Your lookin at 69.99!!
Well I hope you enjoyed the 1st Segment of GameOn! We will be hitting you with this on the 1st Wednesday of every month to stay tuned to now be in the know in the gaming world!
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