Look: If you are a loser like me you’ll notice things that have been upgraded like the player’s hands and fingers. The face models of the players are very close and a cause for pause just to make sure you are playing and not watching. The players still look great. The grass and stadiums are absolutely amazing. Replays are tops.
Feel: Mini-camp is fantastic, great way to get your chops down cold.
Next on the agenda is the running game, which is much, approved over last year. You can bounce to the inside or take it to the outside when your gap is filled.
Another fantastic addition is the control of the defense. Instead of the sliding tackles that were annoying in the games past you know have to be in position to make a tackle, not just somewhere in the vicinity. That is a great addition to the realism.
The AI is smarter this year. Finally a two-minute drill has some real tension. The computer really takes it to you if they are down, isn’t that what football is all about?
Problems are the play selection screens. Rookies aren’t at all involved.
Hear: Thank God for Madden going to Monday night if for nothing more than the addition of Al Michaels. I have the feeling if Madden and Summerall were still together EA would have given us the same drivel we’ve suffered through the last few years. The sound of the game is top notch. The crowd occasionally cheers at odd times, but that is nitpicking.
Finally: 2003 is an upgrade from 2002 as that was an upgrade of the previous year. With the addition of adding rookies from NCAA 2003, addition of mini-camp and the improvements this is a must buy.
+ bboy
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