Freep Review: 'Madden NFL 09' is the franchise's best offering in seven years

Rashaun Rucker writes: "I remember twenty years ago, being a 10 year-old boy and running through a path to the next street over to a friend's house, with sweaty palms, clutching a Sega Genesis cartridge simply titled "John Madden Football".
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Twenty years later I ran to my home with sweaty palms with an early copy of "Madden NFL 09" for the Xbox 360.

Just as the NFL commissioner reinstated Brett Favre, EA Sports has reinstated Madden to its glory. Finally listening to the masses of gamers who craved a true next generation football game and not the watered down version of Madden we have dealt with over the past five years."