Madden NFL
Madden NFL is an American football video game from Electronic Arts Tiburon (EA ) or EA Sports is developed. The Madden NFL series is every year, the best-selling video game series in North America. The first edition of the game came in 1989 for the PC as " John Madden Football " out. The first console version for the Sega Mega Drive followed in 1990 and for the Super Nintendo a year later. EA Sports improved the game since 1991 and " John Madden Football '92 ". The series got the full NFL license and was following known as " Madden NFL " from 1993/Madden NFL '94; Players licenses were added two years later.
There are versions of the game for Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, Xbox 360, Wii, iPhone, and since Madden NFL 08 on PlayStation 3 Madden NFL 09, the August 28 2008 was issued, was the first version, which was not available for PC.
The game is named after the Football commentator and former coach John Madden success known in North America, but still only on the condition that the simulation borders as close as possible to the real football.
The game is characterized by ever larger -scale improvements to the game mechanics, graphics and simulation. The gameplay was John Madden, accompanied by Pat Summerall and later of Monday Night Football commentator Al Michaels says. Since Madden 10 comments on NBC sportscaster Cris Collinsworth together with Tom Hammond and since Madden 11 with Gus Johnson the game.
On 13 December 2004 EA Sports announced that the company for five years holds the exclusive NFL rights, which is why it was forbidden all other games to market with any NFL license. The saw lots of EAs as an attempt to take over the absolute monopoly on football games. Although now the games NFL GameDay of 989 Sports and Microsoft's NFL Fever had to be taken off the market, it was by Sega / ESPN NFL 2K5 Take 2 seconds and the lower selling price tough competition.
Release Date
The Games of the Madden NFL series, from the 2003 version, all published in August just before the start of the NFL season. The date on the cover is not related to the year of the season, but the year in which the relevant Super Bowl takes place. As an example: Madden NFL 2011 was released in August 2010, before the start of the 2010 season.
The " Madden Curse "
Until 1998, all cover of the game with John Madden were designed after particularly popular NFL players were selected. However, all players who had previously this honor, suffered in the following season bad luck, which is why both the TIME magazine, the sports channel ESPN and the fanzine Bleacher Report dated " Madden Curse " talk:
The highlighted annual figures relate to the Madden version, not necessarily the year of publication.
EA Sports has announced plans to shoot a film comedy about the Madden Curse.
The Madden Bowl
The Madden Bowl is an elimination tournament which will be held with the current edition of Madden Football. Since 1995 it takes place during the Super Bowl weekend, held in the city of the host and could in the past, many celebrities and players in the NFL attract as participants. However, by now only get the NFL players the opportunity to participate. The participants can choose the team free, so do not necessarily take with their real team. The winner gets the Madden Bowl Trophy and is mentioned in the next part of the series.