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This is the archive for 21 August 2007

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

MADDEN NFL 08
Reviewed for: Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
Also available for: Every system imaginable
From: Tiburon/EA Sports
ESRB Rating: Everyone


The annual arrival of "Madden" is video gaming's answer to New Year's Day — the opening float in a parade of blockbuster games that runs, non-stop, until after the holidays.

For the first time in three years, it's also a day worth celebrating. After a pair of glitchy and/or feature-starved false starts, "Madden NFL 08" finally (mostly) delivers the kind of next-generation football that owners of next-generation hardware have wanted all along.