Madden NFL 08 (Xbox 360)
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| Publisher | EA Tiburon | Studio | EA Sports | Genre | Sports |
| Release Dates |  | 08/14/07 |  | TBA |  | TBA |  | TBA |
The Madden team said players can expect AI improvement practically across the board. When it comes to improvements for gameplay, it seems the team's essential goal is in finding balance--for every move on the field, there should be a counter move that a player can use to offset it. Co-op mode will be re-introduced to the series for Madden 08, you can call for the ball and it will rumble the controller of your partner to signify you're open.
As producers put it, for the third year of Madden on the Xbox 360, it's time to start putting in the features they've always wanted in the game. Things like gang tackles, owner mode, the lateral, an upgraded fatigue system, improved defensive artificial intelligence; all of these features and more will be part of Madden NFL 08.
It starts with overhauled animations, specifically tons of new branching animations. The big benefit of this new branching technology seems to be more animation "breaking points" wherein the player holding the controller regains control of the player on the field quicker than ever before. And speaking of tackling, gang-tackles, long missing from the series, debuted in the PlayStation 3 version of Madden NFL 07 and will now spread to include every version of Madden 08.
Equally important as to what will be included in Madden 08, is what's being taken out. Take jet-packing, for instance, a common term referring to Madden wide receivers that are able to leap unnaturally high in order to catch passes. That's gone in the current gen versions of the game, according to producers, just one of the steps taken to improve the overall performance of wide receivers (and defensive backs) in the game. For receivers, situational awareness is going to be a big part of Madden 08.
On the defensive side of the passing game, the new tackling animations look to play a huge role in how you defend against big-time receivers. Both man-on-man and zone coverage has been improved.
RELEASE DATE: AUG 14 07 / INFO TAKEN FROM Gamespot
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/madden08/news.html?sid=6169878&om_act=convert&om_clk=newlyadded&tag=newlyadded%3Btitle%3B1&page=1
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4@apoloimagod,
Vgchartz has been proven to be wrong with 50% error in the past. So your assumption is based on a data with possibility of high error margin.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
3According to VGChartz:
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7106
this title has surpassed 2M copies sold. I don't know how accurate that is, but even if you consider a 5-10% error, the difference big enough to suggest that the price of this stock needs to be fixed, that is, it has to increase.[ Veteran ] [ Level 19 ] [ Rank: 460 ]bids
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2@hottuna,
360 sales wouldn't be the "bulk" of that number. At best, 360 sales would be just slightly higher than PS2 sales. In addition to those two, you've got sales split between the PS3/Wii/DS/PSP versions as well.
I'd say that the 360 version accounts for about 30% of total sales, which would put it at about 1.35 million sold. There's absolutely no way this stock should be higher than 150 and if you think it should be at 220, you need to go back and re-think your assumptions, especially regarding PS2 sales.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]
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Agreed, I suspect that at times vgchartz enters numbers for games it assumes are still selling, I doubt that Madden will reach 3 million copies sold, nearly everyone who wants to play it has already gotten it, and those who haven't would probably just buy it for half the price used.