Madden 2005 initial impressions.

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Originally Posted by SKINSnCANES

out of curiosity, what difficultly level do you play on?

yeah doesn't seem you can judge either game by its default difficulty. in ESPN's default, every back is Marshall Faulk in his prime and in Madden's you can still throw it from anywhere to a guy triple covered.

i play AllPro on ESPN and need to move on to Legend, it took me a while tho, made my custom audibles and do defensive assignments on almost every play. it was tough vs. good teams tho, especially since the Skins rank so low to start with. LOVE the playbook tho, good Gibbs work.

im gonna try Madden on All Madden and check it out. i never claimed Madden was easy, just that all the DB swats/picks and scripted 'gang' tackles were never convincing. HATE the playbook. looks awfully familiar as does everything else. THAT, if anything should be different than last year. this is the biggest year for the Skins in a decade...

hopefully i'll see some new Madden animations like you say, but what i want to see is the same long, but seamlessly interruptible ones from ESPN. yeah that rotating running thing on ESPN is infuriating, worst thing about the whole game. helps alot to use the analog, which you should be using, but its shouldn't be a necessity. once ESPN can lean in runners like Madden i think ESPN would take the title w/o dispute. and do all that franchise stuff of course... any ESPN franchisers out there? how's the weekly prep thing?