The Guildmasters

First hand review of the new Madden NFL 12

by Eric Holsomback.

I’ve invited my son Eric to give a personal review on the latest Madden game which has just been released on the PS2 system as well as the PS3. I would like to thank Eric for his personal input of the game.

Review: Madden NFL 12

Hi, everybody its Brian Urlacher’s best mate. I got to say when I played madden NFL 10, I fell in love with the game. I was glad i owned the game. I played it for months, and i completed it. And when I see the Franchise mode, it made me go Nuts. I tackled as many people as I could. I scored Touch-down left & right, I won as many Super-Bowls as i possibly could. I never came a cross a NFL game that lets you customize your own playbook and pick your own routes. And then you get to demonsterate, what you customize, which was cool. And when I heard that they were working on the next madden NFL game, I played that game as well, which was good too.

As you know that madden NFL 12 is all already out now. And as you can see I’m already playing madden NFL 12. And its like falling in love all over again. And as i’m playing madden NFL 12 right, i’m in the middle of the game right, and you have to play beside your best mate Brain Urlacher, knowing that you can’t let your mate down can you. It’s like watching the NFL football game on T.V and your waiting for your team to score. And when you think your team lose’s. And you find your team running all the way down the field, and scoreing a touch-down. Your heart’s racing, and there in the 4’th Quarter & 40 seconds remaining in the clock. And then you glab a nice cold beer to celebrate a good game. That how i feel about madde NFL 12.

Now lets talk business shall we, your mind is here for one thing, and one thing only mate. And that is to see what people have say about madden NFL 12. And what the game is like. OK? now lets talk business mate’s. Now lets talk about the graphics, the graphics all unreal, the grapics are like on T.V, its like they knew what they were doing. They nail the grapics. I give the graphics 5 star, they don’t get better then that.

When I loaded the game up, and the frist mode I went for was the Franchise mode. They really nailed Franchise mode, everything about it was cool. You can spend hours on customizing your play-book. And other things too. You can customize your packages for Offense and Defense, as well as your global package, and your goal line, and more mate. And i know they had this in the other madden NFL 10 and madden 11 as well, but in this mode seem to have a lot more, you can customize your Hot route, which is what I used a lot. And scored big time. I give you idea on some of the name’s for Hot routes, and your play-book. now lets see ??? now where was i ? O yes sorry mate? they got your Streak, Out n’ up, and your zigout Rt.

Now if you play NFL game then you know what i’m talking about then. You also got your Offensive Audibles, & Defensive Audibles. And my favorite, your Formation shifts play-book, by the way I use it all the time, and it works in the long run. When I’m playing madden NFL 12, I try to injure as many players as I can. Plus its hole lot of fun. Plus I like it. I remember this one time I tackled a player, and his helmet came right off his head.

Now lets look at the other NFL game modes, lets see, you got your Franchise, Fantasy challenge, NFL super-star, skill-drill, Tournament, mini games and then there Practice for the Rookies, that Don’t know what they are doing; but in my case I always my playing level at the highest difficult level which is all-madden. Now lets get back to business mate. I’ll start with Fantasy challenge. Now when you play Fantasy challenge, you start with your Newbie League and you work your way up to the top. And the graphics are very good they made them look so real. They nail this game. When your playing in Fantasy challenge you get to pick your favorite team, in my case mine would be the Chicago Bears. I’m always going to be a Bears fan.

And now the NFL Super Star mode. The super star is good too, when your player in pre-season. the Movie star ask you do you want to star in a movie which is cool right mates. You also get your own place that nice. And if you play your cards right, you can make it in the Hall-of-fame. And now mates we move on to next draft round. Which in our case is the mode. You got the skill-drill, which lets you brush up on you skill, so you don’t look like a fool. That the frist thing you don’t want to look like a fool,in front of your mate. I know I don’t.

OK next you got your tournament. In the tournament you can set your tournament type, like single Elimination, Double round Robin, Round Robin, And Double Elimination. And then you select the team you want, mine was the bears. And then you the mini games mode, when you select the mini game you got mini-camp and you try to get as many gold trophie’s like I got. It take a lot of practice, and skill. I’m a pro. And mates I save the best till last; The Ring. You start to notice Diamonds, and I’m almost done with Franchise mode. I completed General, And the Diamonds fill up and the Ruby. If I was you I would buy madden NFL 12. This game is worth it. I give this game a 10 out of 10 star.

I got to thank my best mates, and they are Dad and Brian Urlacher.

From Eric

Will also be available on PS3 and Wii. Lord Of The Rings Aragorns Quest for all you LOTR fans out there, here is the story:

Take up the sword and become the King of Men in this adventure that lets you live the Lord of the Rings trilogy through the eyes of Aragorn. Experience his greatest quests and most heroic deeds as you begin as Strider, Ranger of the North, and rise from the pages of legend to sit on the throne of Gondor. Wield his bow, sword, and spear as you battle the forces of Sauron on foot and on horseback. Fight alongside the Hobbits, Gandalf, and other characters from J.R.R. Tolkein’s fabled stories in a family-friendly journey through the world of Middle Earth.

I’ve seen the official trailer for this game and it’s not too shabby, lord of the rings fans will undoubtedly purchase this one. The graphics were quite impressive although I couldn’t tell if this was from the PS3 or PS2, it would be a game that I would personally rent as I’m not a huge fan of the LOTR games but I would play this one.

Tony:)

I’ve personally been a member of Gamefly for three months now, if your one of the latest console owners like myself you know how expensive the latest games are and you can’t always rely on reviews before buying a game as i’ve found out from personal experience.

It makes sense to rent games first before you buy, for many reasons, you can build a collection of games that are really good and not games that you’ve regretted buying, or you haven’t forked out $60 on a game that turned out to be a load of rubbish then tried to trade it in at the gamestore for next to nothing, so why gamefly?

Gamefly has all the latest games for the latest systems, they also have plenty of the older games if that’s what you want, you get the games in the mail fairly quickly, you can rent 1, 2 ,3 or 4 at a time and prices start at around 8 and a half bucks for 1 game at a time, I personally rent 3 at a time for the ps2 and ps3, this works well for me as I have 4 boys too so there is always at least two up to date games in the house whereas I certainly couldn’t afford to buy a new game each week.

The ads don’t do this company justice as they tell you nothing, once you’ve been a member for 3 months you automatically get $5 game credits towards your next purchase or membership fee, you can also pay a “keep” price to keep a good game that you have and they are usually cheaper than the game stores, plus they will send you the case and booklet at no extra cost, also if you are still a member after a year you not only get the $5 every 3 months but you also get an extra 10% off purchases.

Lastly you can also trade your old games in at gamefly, and usually for much more than the game stores will give you up to $20 or more trade-in i’ve seen on the site which is excellent.  If you want to trade a game in you have to have been a member for 3 months, click on the trade-in button at the site, print out their pre-paid mailing label and send off your game, it’s that simple.

This definitely pays for itself in the long run, plus you don’t  have to waste gas travelling to the store finding they don’t have what you want, they even have games listed to put in your game Q before their release date.

My recommendation if your going to use gamefly is the 2 at a time plan for $22.95 per month, this might sound expensive but when you think two games per month at $60 each is very expensive and you don’t always know for sure your going to like them, during the course of a month you could easily get to play 10 new games or more and if you buy one or two a month anyway it pays for itself, it really does.

I’ve seen resident evil 5 just this week still being advertised at certain places for $40, I paid $24.99 for Resident Evil 5 from Gamefly and it’s a great addition to my ps3 collection, you can quit your membership anytime so you really have nothing to lose by trying them out.

I give gamefly 10 out of 10 as I don’t have a bad thing to say about them, I emailed them and they even phoned me instead of answering the email, how’s that for customer service.

Tony