Madden NFL 2004
by EA Sports
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Video Game Reviews of Madden NFL 2004
Customer Review: HORRIBLE gameplay
Summary: 2 Stars
i've bought all the NFL games since 1998, and this one is actually the worse of them all. It has a great franchise mode, but the gameplay is just awful. there are far too many bugs exploited by the computer that result in long BS plays. you will find yourself buying a new controller every week to replace the one you broke against the wall after a 90 yard TD pass on 3rd and 25.Customer Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
The game has some minor flaws, but is the best of the Madden series by far. The owner mode is great. The cheating problem persists, but isn't as bad as past iterations unless you're on All-Pro.Customer Review: A question for the other reviewers...
Summary: 1 Stars
I have never played a computer game other than solitaire, mindsweeper, etc. The ones that come with windows. But I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and was reading your reviews. You guys take this stuff WAY too seriously.Have any of you ever actually touched a girl?
Just wondering.
Customer Review: Fixed the glitches - multiplayer play has never been better
Summary: 5 Stars
They finally fixed head-to-head play.Single player is alright, but the real fun in these games is playing against your friends or legitimate players online. I was a huge fan of some of the earlier Maddens, but anyone who has played a bit against other people knows those games had gameplay glitches. Certain blitzes or passes made you have to design your entire gameplan around them, be it running out of the shotgun all day or having to always double-team a mediocre receiver because he always catches a certain pass.
For the most part, they fixed all that in Madden 2004. The game plays very well, and extremely realistically, with a few flaws that can be worked around. The deep lob is no longer unstoppable, good DBs play the pass very well now, except certain zones (Cover 3 -- DBs don't play it right and you get burnt on this). The "nano-blitz" is gone, so is the unstoppable sweeps from 2002 and the flags from 2003. They also penalize you for trying to do the "drop back 30 yards and chuck it perfect" routine from the earlier games. Madden was always a great game, but when you played people who exploited these flaws, and the internet seems to spawn these losers, it just gets frustrating. That is why I didn't bother with 2003. The removal of these bugs leave us with simply a great multiplayer game.
There are a few new features which people talk about that are really nice after-thoughts. One of the lesser talked about improvements though are to the playbooks. These are REAL plays that NFL teams actually run. I played some college ball and several of these passing plays we ran EXACTLY like that and the reads for the QB are the same.
In my experience, the people who talk about Madden not being realistic and prefer the other games, are the kids who think it would be cool if your running back could throw Hadoukens or LBs shoot be able to shoot lightning bolts. They watch some football and think the way the game works is you give the ball to your RB a lot and he gets 100 yards, then you throw it deep to your WR a couple of times and he gets 100 yards. And if you get into trouble, you go 5 wides and throw a bomb to your RB at slot. Duh. They don't understand how football strategy really works and so Madden is "unrealistic".
The single player has always had a huge problem in that when the computer gets behind, it just cheats to keep it close, as others have pointed out. It's not fun and does detract from the game. Nothing wrong with a comeback now and then, but sometimes it's just as fun to blow a team out and put your subs in. It's also annoying to have your defense's stats ruined for no other reason than your offense played a good game.
That said, playing against real people is where the real fun is at and where Madden excels. My best game purchase of the year so far.
Customer Review: Madden= The only option for PC Football
Summary: 3 Stars
madden 2004 is the only football game on the market for PCs.the game is lower quality then it's cousins on Xbox and PS2, but that game is reasonable none the less. It does have some random occurences though and the gameplay is nothing like ESPN NFL Football. I'd definitely buy that over Madden any day. Madden resembles an arcade game too much and is not true to life. sometimes there are points in the game where the user is winning and then by random chance, he'll fumble his next 2 or 3 possessions or his tackles won't block for him. these problems are very annoying, but the most annoying thing in this game is the bounce-off tackle. Sometimes when u are going to a tackle and you make contact with the ballcarrier, what will happen is his body will turn and you will bounce off of him while he continues running. it happens a lot and the only way to prevent it is to either make every tackle with Ray Lewis or to change the AI in the game. i've found that messing with the AI can help make the game more realistic but overall it doesn't work as well as ESPN NFL Football. The game has many gameplay faults and the animations seem kind of random at times, but the game does have a reasonable playbook and the ratings are reasonably accurate, with a few exceptions, so i'd say this game is average. nothing to get excited about, but if all u've got is a PC, this isn't the worst thing ever.