I believe you mean the first WEEK of August, not the first "seek".

played it on psp.
Still sub par football.
E A sports its in your wallet...

Go Irish!

This is inexcusable. EA should have the bugs worked out of their football program by now. I mean, they have been releasing this same game for 8 or more years now.

"for a few unlucky players"

A few, aka everyone.

You should have seen the OperationSports boards when this game was released. It was chaos over there. Even made better by the fact that Lead Designers from NCAA and Madden frequent the boards and post regularly. It was painful seeing the designers get verbally destroyed. But so, so worth it.

Didnt have any problems with it, but it could be the case of not playing it that much.

But this is nothing compared to 2k Sports products. Played MLB 2k8. Didnt finish one game past the 4th inning, and each game after that was even less. The last game lasted 1 pitch.

Same happened with hockey and basketball. Atleast EA Sports, I can actually play the game.

But of course its EA, and everybody comes out to talk bad about them and not other companies that do worst.

What about the bug where you lose control of your RB on options, and he decides to sprint towards the sideline?

Didn't have that one either.

A bug I can take. Not playing the game at all, even just one single game I cannot. Or crashing half way through. For a stats hound like me, its horrible.

I have no problems with the game plus I am having a great time!

As for MLB 2k8...that game was horrid beyond belief

I wouldn't mind EA updating this game some more. The first couple of days was a mess, people were stalling or crashing all the time. Its not so bad now. Why does this game seem worse than last year?

i wonder if Xplay will change there review score they gave it a 2 out 5 mainly because of the glitches.

and the reason why i didn't buy it.

I hate how they're starting to treat console games like PC games by releasing patches while allowing sloppiness to happen by having bugs slip through the final testing stages. I can understand more complication in games these days, but the number of people and knowledge of games would seem to be much greater. I can understand a game being updated that is designed to be played online from the get-go, but something which generally played offline is unacceptable.

If the game is fucked up, get it straight and send out new copies.

I assume you can dl the patch through their website and then patch it through the console.


Its funny though because the majority of problems are online related anyways.

Exactly the same kind of issue with NASCAR 09, constant freezing and profile lock ups meaning any and all progress is lost for good. The usual crap programming from EA I'm afraid.

Hey EA,

How about fixing the bug where, inexplicably, there's no TV commentary in Legend mode? How about fixing the bug where custom stadium sounds just stop working after the first or second quarter? Or how about the bug where, for some ungodly reason, you can save rosters/profiles with the exact same filename (aka, overwrite) but still have two separate files in File Manager? How about the bug where the sliders on the custom difficulty settings don't work? How about the bug where your running back gets grafted onto the back of his lead blocker?

Thanks,
tlozwarlock

How can this game be so buggy? They only had to test the new features, and they had a whole year to do it!

Yeah I love how they are always so careful to say "few unlucky players". That is just crap. Why can no one be honest anymore. Operation Sports has turned into an EA fanboy user base. You seriously won't fine more mature users (the site is awesome), but to have the majority of people on there complaining means you really screwed up.

I can't remember the last time I rented a game with so many bugs...oh wait...Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm. That was just as buggy easily. Freezing and all. That was a first attempt at a game though, not a mature title. This is really really pathetic, and it's a shame there is no competition to benefit from them dropping the ball. A simple QA pass would have detected a lot of these issues, so I can't understand how it made it out in this state other than them knowing about it, needing to meet a release date, and expecting to patch later. Which if that is the case, things are even worse off than I thought.

I download rosters from the EA locker and I don't get teams disappearing but I do get a few fun little bugs.

My favorites include, when lining up before the snap, you hold down R2 to check your play and the routes are all squiggly and unreadable.

Also, you'll see your receivers lining up and instead of having a square or triangle above their heads to indicate which button, a question mark appears there so you have no idea.

Finally, the in-game music just does not work. It'll work for kickoff and maybe the 1st quarter, then it just stops and won't come back unless you re-do all your custom music.

Is the game playable? of course. Although its annoyingly buggy and irritating.

The squiggly lines is the home-field advantage thing. That, believe it or not was by design. As is the field being 5 yards too narrow so that every RB flare is out of bounds, the stats being based on hour games when you play 20 minute games, the playclock running while you pick your play when real coaches decide it during the previous play, the fact that the qb has to wind up to throw after you press the button, the fact that 40 % of plays have the snap jumped- very realistic.