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Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings

  • Summary: For 16 years, Madden NFL football has been the definitive gridiron video game experience.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. A solid title with good football sense and strong gameplay. [Oct 2005, p.97]
  2. A game that has eliminated most of the ugly bugs from last year's entry, but it still doesn't manage to rise much above the quality of its predecessor.
  3. Madden NFL 06 DS is not a better game than "Madden NFL 2005 DS." Madden should improve with every year, but for the reasons above, it didn't this time.
  4. 40
    Yet, gameplay is still the biggest flaw, with inconsistent AI (the computer never runs and doesn’t manage the clock effectively in the second half) and electric football-style physics.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. TatumR.
    10
    Now you can have your beloved franchise mode in the back seat of your car!
  2. XavierC.
    7
    People are idiotic. This game improved massively, but still fails to reach the incredibly addictive traits of its PS2 and Xbox siblings. (Game Informer was much too harsh, and I personally find them biased.) The game did a lot better, is all I can say. Expand