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Best Madden Series?

dixontosanders

By dixontosanders,
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Which Madden was the best  

16 members have voted

  1. 1. Which Madden was the best

    • Madden previous year not listed (say in comments)
      1
    • Madden 2002
      0
    • Madden 2003
      0
    • Madden 2004
      2
    • Madden 2005
      8
    • Madden 06
      0
    • Madden 07
      1
    • Madden 08
      2
    • Madden 09
      0
    • Madden 10
      2

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05 was easily the best. The defense was on point, you know you could actually play defense effectively, franchise was sick with the radio show and the hit stick was awesome when it was first introduced.....I want to say thats the year you had individual defensive assignments as well.....

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05 was the best which is why EA doesn't allow microsoft to make the games backwards compatible.

In franchise mode the stats all lined up with the other teams even with 5 min quarters.

The AI was a little stupid even in All-Pro. All-Madden it just got ridiculous. The sliders helped a lot though.

Also they didn't really penalized guys for having low awareness unless you simulated games. Playing the game it didn't really matter.

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