The soundtrack for Madden NFL 08 featured EA Trax, which included The Used, Atreyu, Mims, Swizz Beatz, and many more hip hop/rock artists.Ĭertain star players are deemed to have 'weapons' which can enhance their performances and create game-changing plays. Also on next-generation systems, the game features an intro composed by David Robidoux titled, 'Who Wants It More?', after the Super Bowl XLII slogan. Weapons (see below) also get special introductions before games. On the next-generation systems former NFL running back and Madden NFL 2003 cover athlete Marshall Faulk hosts a segment called Marshall's Minute in which he discusses key star players and predicts the score prior to the game. This mode finds players teaming up with a friend and taking on the CPU or two human opponents. Another feature that returned to this year's incarnation is the much sought after 'co-op' play, which had found itself sitting on the sidelines since making the jump to the next-generation consoles. Fatigue also plays a factor when cold-weather teams play in hot weather during the early months of the season. A new fatigue system has been implemented, disallowing users from taking a scrambling quarterback and repeatedly running around behind the line of scrimmage for very long gains. Another updated feature – dubbed Hit Stick 2.0 – allows players to hit high or low by flicking the analog stick up or down. Madden 08 brings back some features for its online play for example, there is the return of Season Mode and tournaments held online.

Features of the new animation system include mid-air collisions, big-time, one-handed catches, hurdles, sideline catches and gang tackling. Players are no longer locked into animations but are now controlled more by the player. A new branching animation system allows dynamic gameplay for the first time in the franchise. Madden 08 runs at 60 frames per second on the Xbox 360, and 30 frames per second on the PlayStation 3.

It is also the last game in the series to include all 6 NFL Europa teams, as the league folded after its 2007 season.

Madden NFL 08 has sold 4.5 million copies. By December 31, 2015, the Xbox 360 version had sold 1,169,587 copies in the United States. A Spanish-language version of the game was released on Decemfor the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 platforms, featuring ESPN Deportes announcer Álvaro Martín. After the August 14 release date came and went without a Mac release, however, EA said it would be delayed until September or October 2007. had announced in June 2007 that a version for Mac OS X would be released at the same time as the other versions.

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