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Madden NFL 08 by Electronic Arts

the madden curse continues!!

Written by LF from Wellington

Oct 15, 2007

boy o' boy. the madden curse is true, everyone gets hurt and now the game is hurt. It barely loads to begin with, once it does, the menus are all garbled. Lots graphic issues on a brand new aluiMac with a 256 HD video card. EA, how do you put out this game without fully testing it.
It's going back tomorrow!

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Madden NFL 08 by Electronic Arts

imac menu problems

Written by RD from Seaville

Oct 16, 2007

I bought madden 08 but the menus are all messed up. When you go to a pulldown all the options apear to be on top of each other making them unreadable. I am experiencing this problem on a brand new 20in imac. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

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madden 08 or madden 05?

Written by RT from Phoenix

Oct 16, 2007

when i heard of madden 08 coming to mac i was very excited about it because i wasn't going to have buy a 360 to play it but after playing it today i was very disappointed and the main reason why is because it looks like a souped up version of madden 05 on the xbox i mean don't get me wrong it looks very good i mean the grass looks real, the weather effects are great but the player bodies didn't get the upgrade it runs well on my mac pro 3.0 dual core intel xeon , 4GB, ATI radeon x1900 xt graphics card with all the settings on high so if your expecting a 360 experience i would recommend not to purchase this game but if u don't mind that i guess it will have to do till next year one more thing if you have usb speakers like bose it will sound awful

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ok game, but bad text!!!

Written by NZ from Toronto

Oct 17, 2007

The game play is ok , but the text is unreadable. All the words are on top of each other. How do you fix this? Or else the game wil not be that fun!

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Soooo SAD

Written by JS from Dayton

Oct 17, 2007

I am disappointed in EA with the release of Madden 08 on OS X

They should not advertise this title... What a let down,
Buyers & True Football gamers beware..... don't expect much

This is going back to the store ... I'd rather have Madden 06 on my PS 2

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EA Disapoints!

Written by RL from Ashburn

Oct 17, 2007

Was so looking forward to getting this game!
BUT it doesn't work on my MacBook!

What were they thinking? MacBook is Apple's most popular computer.

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Madden NFL 08 by Electronic Arts

stay away

Written by JK from Rockford

Oct 17, 2007

I have never seen anything so bad, looks like a bad windows game from the 90's. Cant use the menus, could not even get to the game itself. But it is better than Tiger Woods, that EA game shut my machine down. And I cant even give it zero stars, one star is one too many.

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What's up with online play?

Written by SM from Dublin

Oct 17, 2007

I ordered the game because I had bought the Wii version and it sucked. The graphics and gameplay are much better than the Wii's. So in that respect I have to give it a higher score. The players don't look that realistic though. My major problem is with online play. First you can't get it to register through the disk so I had to register through EA online. I'm still having issues getting to go online to play though. It says I have an outdated version. How can I have an outdated version if I just bought it? The instructions say to go to the update from the launch menu - too bad it doesn't exist. How do I resolve this?

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I guess I am not the only one!

Written by AG from Sacramento

Oct 17, 2007

Everyone is having the problem. There is a problem with it. You can't read anything all the text is jumbled. This causes the gamplay to be unplayable. I pre ordered the day they announced it and have been so psyced. This is a major let down. I think they were to rushed for the release. Anyway, don't but it and if you did don't open it. Return it and wait and eventually they will fix the problem!

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Pretty Good!

Written by SJ from Glen Allen

Oct 18, 2007

I have a Macbook Pro with 2GBs of ram and a x1600 256Mb of video ram and it runs pretty well! Now if I can just get my Madcatz controller working with it. I do not have any problems reading the text or menus!

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Madden NFL 08 by Electronic Arts

Not So Good

Written by MS from Dayton

Oct 18, 2007

I'm having a problem with distorted menus. I know that others are having the same problem and this is what support.ea.com says:

We are aware of an issue where the video card will not load textures correctly and will not display any of the game text correctly. This is a driver issue with the ATI card and will be resolved in the next system update by Apple later this month.

Hopefully this fixes the issue. I'm also having problems with the Mad Catz controller. Mad Catz doesn't know what to do yet. Answers to these problems would be nice. Why would they release this without making sure it worked first?

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Wasted my money...

Written by CB from Fort Worth

Oct 18, 2007

I have always loved the Madden games, but this was a waste of my money. I have a three week old iMac 20" and I cannot play this game.
- The text is all jumbled and most of the time not even showing up
- The MadCatz (brand new) controller doesn't work. It is off calibration.
- I have no idea what I am doing because of the text jumbling, thus it is unplayable.

Might try to sell it or just throw it away. Maybe we can return it? A Patch coming soon? Don't buy this. It's a waste of money and probably won't work. Sad.

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not bad

Written by DW from Fresno

Oct 18, 2007

I have the last generation G5 and the minimum operating requirements, and the game works perfectly. No jumbled words, no problems registering either. The graphics are so so but the player intelligence is a thousand times better than in previous titles. Im very happy that i purchased it! My only complaint is Vince Young on the cover...

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Controller Issues

Written by CL from Arlington

Oct 18, 2007

The game works fine on my iMac so far. The problem has been the gamepad. Anyone have any recommendations for a gamepad that actually works with the game?

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Madden NFL 08 by Electronic Arts

works fine & gamepad suggestion

Written by DS

Oct 19, 2007

intel imac with 1 gb of ram...after turning down the video detail settings for crowds and other less important images the game works fine for me...have played complete games and begun a franchise without any issues...the drop down menu's and all graphics are clear and legible unlike reports by others..

i had bought a universal pc/mac gamepad from wal-mart called "game elements" by gemini that produced effect reported by others...auto non-stop scrolling thru meus...picked up a logitech rumblepad 2 (cordless) which worked as soon as i plugged it in..this is a slightly older model I picked up new for $55 cdn...high quality but slightly heavy...but it works...Tiger 08 btw does not appear to support gamepad play

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Game play great, everything else... no

Written by PS from Saint Charles

Oct 19, 2007

I don't have the menu problems. after researching that, it seems to happen to graphics cards that are ATI build... so Nvidea and GeForce macbook pros like me are all right. the Mad Catz controller is however constantly scrolling in the menu's makeing it impossible to use it. (assuming you have figured out how to set the game up to use it in the first place) after talking to Mad catz, it seems to happen only on Madden 08. (hmm, odd dont you think?) When trying to connect to Online play, a menu shows saying that you dont have an updated version of the game (as i noticed charlie Frye is still on the browns) and then tells you to find the "update" option in the main menu... all be it, there is no such menu.

All things can be fixed in a patch by EA, all though. The online component should have been imediatly avaiable, this is just riduclous that i have to learn how to use the keyboard for playing... and just playing the cpus i might add.

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great game

Written by DS from browns mills

Oct 19, 2007

Imac pro and logitech controller evrything works fine

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I must be lucky

Written by DH from Cary

Oct 19, 2007

I wonder if I am the only one who hasn't had any problems with text? To me the game has been great so far, I haven't had any problems with graphics/audio etc. My one and only problem is with online play: It doesn't seem to exist. When I try to connect, it tells me that I have an out of date version and it needs to be updated. It says to click a phantom Update button that does not exist anywhere. It also says you can download it manually by going to ea.easports.com but there is nothing whatsoever on the EA Sports website.

I consider myself lucky that I'm not experiencing any of the other problems reported so far. I actually enjoy the game and think that the graphics are solid. I'm using a 15" 2.33ghz MBP with 3gb RAM if anyone was wondering.

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