EA Sports Adds a GREAT Feature: There’s a first time for everything

For those of us that have been playing NCAA football and the Madden NFL franchise over the last years the gameplay has been pretty much the same year after year.  EA did a great job this year on Madden and I’ve been really impressed with how much better it is compared to the last few years.  The game is much more realistic and you can’t get away with some of the garbage 360 jump passes for touchdowns that you can pull off in NCAA 09.

I must say that the Rewind feature EA is touting as a great new feature for the 09 version of Madden might be the worst thing ever incorporated in a video game. If you are unfamiliar with the rewind feature in Madden, if you throw an interception, miss a field goal, fail on a 4th down conversion, fumble, etc. you can press a button and the game will literally rewind and you will be able to play that play again.  Even golf games don’t have mulligans and people actually use those in real life.   I am really baffled as to what in the world EA was thinking when they put this into the game and what made them think that it would be a good addition to their game.

The best feature ever included on and EA sports game by far has to be the EA Locker that you can access on NCAA football. It is a place for you to save your rosters and other game files on EA’s online server. EA has done this because they are aware with how annoying it is to see “#39″ when P.J. Hill is running the ball instead of “Hill”. The same nerds (and I mean that in the best way possible) that enter in all of the names of the players for every team every year can now save their rosters to their EA locker and anybody with an XBOX Live account can download these rosters to their machines.  The website that led me to this discovery that has the Gamertags of the xbox live users that have the rosters in their lockers is http://freencaa09rosters.com/.