Madden NFL 2008

You would think that with the advancing technology, there would be more features and additions to Madden games. Well, EA found out that people will buy new Madden games just to play online and for new rosters, so they release new games each year (as they did before DLC was commonplace) but they would slowly take out features and add in microtransactions and see if people will notice. People certainly noticed, but not enough did. So all that is left is this relic of a game, and despite the fact that Madden 23 is 50x the size of this (at least on the PS2, where I play it), this game has an immense amount of features. You can relocate teams, spawn games (put a game on the memory card, play it at your own time, and when you play the game you can go to the save file and put the result of the game into that save file, which was revolutionary for its time) and there are a thousand modes that you can play. This was also the last game released on Gamecube. And I'm pretty sure the PC version still has fan-made online servers still up, which probably have custom rosters. It's sad to see Madden games whittled down to cash grab, glitchy and unfun games, but we still have Madden 08. Pro gamer tip: get Brian Moorman. A really fast punter is practically a cheat code. Adam Podlesh and Daniel Sepulveda would work as well.