The Official Madden NFL 2006 Thread

**StriderKyo** · 30 Jun 2005, 05:30 PM

Well, it's either Madden or nothing this year, so I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and feed Great Mammon some of my cash.

In EA' s defence, they seem to have overhauled everything so it looks as good as ESPN did last year, maybe even better. Gamespot has gameplay videos up, looks nice, and the players are a little less stumpy than last year, though still not up to real life proportions. I'd link some screenshots, but nobody seems to have anything legit yet of the on-field stuff, just staged replay screens.

This year's new features are a little wacky. There's a mentor mode where a former player coaches a player you've made - yes indeed, you can learn the secrets of multiple blown knee ligaments and a 3 year career from Terrell Davis himself!

There's also a new feature called QB vision. Basically, the screen's dimmed except for an area representing your QB's field of vision. Passing to a reciever outside this field of vision means your pass will be siginificantly less accurate. Watching viedeo of this, apparently Peyton Manning's eyes are mounted on the side of his head because he can see everything at once, which is pretty weird considering he spent 3 straight years passing to Marvin Harrison over & over & over again. Does this mean Tom Brady can see behind himself? (I'm pretty sure he can in real life - either that or he has Spidey sense).

I'm assuming you can turn that feature off. I'm also curious to how it'll handle, because QBs in the video didn't seem to be able to move their field of vision all that quickly.

The best feature is that McNabb's on the cover, which means he'll go out for the season with a Chunky Soup injury or something. My poor Giants could use a break.

There are no (real) 360 screenshots yet - I'm guessing they'll wait until September so they don't kill the buzz on the game for current systems. That's probably the version I'll end upwating for, but the Xbox version will end up getting a rental just to see what they did with it.

**EvilMog** · 30 Jun 2005, 05:55 PM

I'm in this year as well. Since theres no ESPN this year.....

Hopefully the game is much better than the 04' game. Since that was the last one I played.

on a side not we got copies of NCAA 06' in today for PS2 and Xbox. And they actually have a street date of July 12th on the box. Weird...usually EA doesnt do that.

**Yoshi** · 30 Jun 2005, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Well, it's either Madden or nothing this year, so I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and feed Great Mammon some of my cash.

Not I. I'll see an NFL game again in 2010 or whatever.

**Mr_B** · 30 Jun 2005, 09:34 PM

good for you

**Diff-chan** · 30 Jun 2005, 09:35 PM

The QB Vision thing is actually pretty slick. If its done right, then thats one of the better things Ive seen added to football games the past 5 years.

**EvilMog** · 30 Jun 2005, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Not I. I'll see an NFL game again in 2010 or whatever.

Oh like you play football games to begin with.

**TobalRox** · 01 Jul 2005, 12:23 AM

I haven't been a fan of the Madden series since the Genesis days... I played GameDay on the PSX days, and I've been a Sega Sports fan since the DC. I like 2k Sports' idea of a "legends" game, but I dunno how it'll turn out. Some of these Madded ideas sound decent, so I may have to check it out, but they'll have to do a lot to get me to give up my ESPN (I don't care about updated rosters).