Many of the motion controls work brilliantly. Madden 08 is packed full of gesture controls, most of which will be familiar to fans who played last year’s version.
It’s a robust package that trumps last year’s game in many ways, but also reveals some glaring issues with EA’s approach to motion-controlled football that, ultimately, make Madden NFL 08 feel a lot less engaging that it should be. Arriving a brisk 10 months later, Madden NFL 08 comes with some added control refinements, a huge increase in mini-games, a new mom-friendly "Family Play" control option, and online play. Last year’s Madden NFL 07 for Wii represented a rare breakthrough for the visceral side of the equation, offering a full suite of gesture controls to connect players to the physical side of the sport in a more direct way. For the most part, football video games have favored the strategic elements, offering a wealth of plays, audibles, and hot routes to tinker with, while settling into a comfortably chess-like perspective capturing all the action from a bird’s eye view.
Players have a dauntingly small window of time to coordinate and execute a play that will have been planned and practiced for weeks or months. The game of football is an extraordinary combination of complex tactics and intensely focused violence.
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