Madden NFL 2005

In early August, EA Sports released their newest version of their Madden Football game series, Madden NFL 2005, along with another version, Madden NFL 2005 Collector's Edition.

In less than 3 weeks after the game being released, a major flaw was found in the game involving one of this year's new features, the Formation Audible. The problem occurs when the offensive team Formation Shifts, it causes the defensive team to become fatigued. If this is used several times before the ball is snapped, the entire defense will be exhausted, therefore hindering their ability to compete. A person can very easily do this to their opponent without their opponent even realizing that they are being glitched. Also, the person on offense may be doing this to their opponent, without the intent of cheating, but simply using the feature in the game, and not even realize they are getting an unfair advantage.

This glitch may have very well ruined this year's version of the game, and it has just been released. EA's only suggestion so far is to play the game with fatigue off, which presents an unrealistic style of game play. The majority of people who purchased the game did not intend on playing with fatigue off, but now are being forced to.

We call upon EA Sports and Tiburon to compensate for this oversight in the game, and give their customers what they paid for, rather than to offer a second rate remedy to the situation. A more realistic remedy would be to offer an updated version of the game with this problem fixed at an even exchange, or very small cost for shipping. Only the actual game disk would need to be replaced, and we feel that this would be a minimal expense to EA/Tiburon.

Without replacement of a faulty product in which everyone in the Madden community has purchased, we cannot depend on EA/Tiburon to produce quality products as advertised in the future.