Others say...

"Madden 2007"
Great game. Some of the plays I like from Madden 2006 are not there or I can not find them.

"Long Live the Boston Natives!!"
I have to say, that I like other game buyers have read reviews that romance how great the seasons, the empires and the feelings they get from games that are repetitive, tiresome, and/or without any merit. But now I see what they mean by what they say. I bought this game back this past January, I hadn't really been into the madden series in a long time, but rode myself on the hype and I was glad i did. I created a team in the AFC replacing the New England Patriots, we were the immortal hardly ever losing Boston Natives, I can still hear the rally cry! I had made a series of favorite created players, Vagn Palnatoki my favorite, a seven foot 320 pound defensive tackle, well, more of a defensive wall, that swam through the line like a fish to rob the quarterbacks of their flexibility. My creations were the most exciting thing about the game, I had a quarterback (Kane), tight end (Steene), left tackle (Thorgrim), running back (Thystolf), wide receiver (Deschain). My creations made the games though the plays you used to move into enemy territory were repetitive, and sometimes boring, but these players that I made were a positive part of it. They had abilities that other players would only dream about, they had speed, strength, awareness, jump and overall just amazing dynamos.

Besides created players, a gem I didn't come to realize was so important was the college all star game. In my last post season I played the all star game and saw some killer players, ones that had abilities that were A+ potential. Though I had played four seasons as the Natives, and my team had won every super bowl they went to, this surprised me. I probably (looking back at it) didn't think to put much attention into this part of the game because of my created players. But I found a superstar rookie running back named Roman Walker that made incredible plays, he escaped the depths of hell with singe marks on his shoes, he leaped canyons with a single bound, he stiff armed them all. He ran like a wildfire through sage brush, he had the third most rushing yards in the league, (Reggie Bush being the top) these players that even though after playing a total of 5 seasons, I still saw things I hadn't seen before, this was one of my favorite games to play, until tonight.

Tonight as I geared up for my next season, winning the super bowl again against the Saints 23-20, usually when you win it asks you to go to the off season mode, it didn't it froze, it has frozen every time I tried it. Even the Tony Bruno radio show on the game said, "The super bowl is this week" but it had already been played. It's sad that my Boston Natives team maybe a thing of the past with this error or bug or whatever, but it was still a lot of fun.

I dabbled earlier on the created team, but you can set ticket prices, create a stadium, make it as small or large as you want it. You can do whatever you want, then at the off season, you can upgrade it if you want it (or if you have the money for it) you can sell your stadium out to corporations, they will give you money for it, just like the real leagues. If that bug hadn't happened who knows how many seasons I would have done with this franchise mode. The expanded offseason mode where you can draft, which I admit can be buggy at times, (it stalled a couple times in my 5 seasons) you can tweak players, new and old, to get their performance to how you want it through preseason drills. When the preseason starts, the players jockey for top spot in the depth chart, besides the occasional bugs and that final error it was overall worth $50. Even though my seasons maybe over, I can still hear the players, the warriors, the Natives' war cry as they run onto the field ensuring that many enemy players will be leaving the field holding some extremity, or not being able to get up at all out of fear.

"Pleaz, this game is trash"
The Madden franchise is going down the wrong road with this stupid QB vision stuff and on top of that gameplay is way 2 slow. Last years game was good because u had the option of turing off QB vision without effecting the level of gameplay but now in 2007 if u turn off QB vision u can only play on All Pro and not on All Madden...stupid. By doing that it means, "play the way we me made the game or don't play at all." Fine I won't play and Im sure a lot of other gamers made the same decesion.

"great football game"
Overall this game is very good. Good sound and graphics make this game a winner. Also the gameplay is easy to use, and is much better and easier than the PS3 version. It does have a memory card problem at times that being the only problem. I would have liked to have seen an option to turn on progressive scan, but maybe that will be in Madden 08. Personally, I think this game is better than the PS3 version.

"Another Madden..."
Once again another Madden has been created. Very few new features.

Graphics:
3/10
Same as always
2-D crowd
Semi-realistic players

I'm still waiting for something new Sony

Sound:
8/10
One positive thing about Madden is its great music

Controls:
8/10
Same as always

Superstar Mode:
5/10
Not the biggest fan of playing it in first person unless you are the quarterback. With any other offense position, there is a 900% chance that a running play will be called. And if you are a running back, 1000% chance that a run won't be called.

Defense is cool, but it's easy to lose track of your surroundings fast.

Playability:
Moderately-high

Overall:
7.5/10
It seems that Madden adds like 1 thing per year; with the first person Superstar view this year.

Personally I'm good with Franchising my team every year and creating players on there.

My recommendation:

With the release of Madden 08 coming out, don't bother.