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Originally Posted by Mecca
Madden 05 was actually a really good game.
My problem with 2k5 was if you understood how to look at the defense before the snap you could literally complete every ****ing pass. The coverages were so telegraphed you knew what would work and what wouldn't before you ever snapped the ball.
I completed something like 80% of my passes with Trent Green on that game.
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Seriously?
ESPN 2k5, like Madden, has always had sliders you could adjust if you found the game to be to difficult, or too easy.
Madden has also always had several "money" plays that the CPU just could not stop.
What 2k5 DIDNT have however, was the super awesome defensive stamina draining glitch.
Madden 05 tried to be innovative and work in formation shifts before the snap, so teams who ran offenses like that could be played this way in game.
Sadly, for every time you shifted your formation, the game would glitch and the defensive players stamina would be reduced exponentially each time. Do that a few times each snap and you have players on the field whose top running speed is that of an 80 year old man with severe spinabifida.
So Madden pretty much made you choose what was gonna happen. You keep fatigue on, and you keep the auto subs and things as they were and NEVER ran a single formation shift (one of the biggest offensive improvements)....or you turn fatigue off and never see any of the starters ever come out of the game at all, and you play against players who never get tired.
If Im having to choose between a $20 game that is a bit too easy and can be tweaked with difficulty sliders, or a $50 game that has the same issues and a game breaking glitch in there you can do nothing about, thats a pretty simple decision.
My post raging about that glitch is actually still here from when I posted about it when the game first came out, and how bummed I was that the NFL License was stuck with these assclowns at EA Sports.