Fighting Obstacles Knowing Ultimate Success and smoking a cigarette from a pink cigarette pipe. He imagined her tearing each of his letters angrily, but like a lady. He loved how much of a genuine spoiled girl his sweetheart was. He missed her jade colored eyes, and olive toned skin. Charlie loved playing with her silkylike hair. He imagined how beautiful it would be to play with it on their honeymoon. As he continued down the road leading to his sweetheart's house, his heart sustained its violent beating. His sweating became visible on his white shirt, and navy pants. Charlie reached for the handkerchief that was in his shirt's pocket, but he fell to the ground before he could wipe the thick drool of sweat from his face. He laughed at his clumsiness until he realized something was wrong. He tried to get up, but the green grass was like quicksand underneath his knees. Charlie looked to his sweetheart's house, and realized he could no longer speak, nor scream. There was no panic in his movements. Charlie knew that would only make whatever was happening to him worse. His sweetheart's father was a doctor and he should be home soon. He lay at the crest of a roadway that led to her house. The grass began to feel warm as the sun turned a yolk tinted yellow and Charlie closed his eyes.
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.: Madden 2006:.
~Z. Lund
Electronic Arts rocked the gaming world with
their announcement that they had locked in the NFL license exclusively, instantly killing off competition from Midway and Sega. Later, they also announced that they had sewn up the rights to the college teams as well, guaranteeing them 100% of the NCAA pie this year as well. I guess someone at EA enjoys the game of "Monopoly" a little too much... Last year Sega released their awesome sports games at a lowball $19.99, which obviously
September 2005
pissed off Electronic Arts to the point where they wanted to ensure that wouldn't be happening ever again. Hence, the NFL monopoly. With Madden 2006 your only choice for officially licensed football this year, will you support Electronic Arts and their Draconian policies or will you show them with your wallet that you don't care for their business practices? After reading that, you may guess that I won’t be purchasing the product, well guess again. The very fact that I’m in Iraq, with literally nothing to do, lead me to purchasing this game. The following is my review. In my opinion Madden stopped being a great game a long long time go. Sure, it’s been a roster upgrade here, visual tweaks there, new move here, old move removed there, new game play mechanic here, old game play mechanic removed there. EA has successfully been selling guys like I and other college aged men and women alike, a game they didn't really need for at least 5 years now. That's come to the end of the line now with 2006. There are enough substantial improvements to warrant buying the new game and now that EA holds the official license of the NFL it’s the only game to buy. To be blunt, Madden 06 has some revolutionary tweaks that will either make it or entirely break it for the gamer. That's usually nothing out of the ordinary, but this time I really mean it. In the last ten years Madden has gotten by with little revision, but 2006 features game play that is entirely different than what you're used to. Quarterback Vision & Precision Passing has all of the makings of a fantastic idea; ergo it makes the game far more realistic. When the ball is snapped QBV & PP provides you with a field of vision that you must train on your receiver. You must focus this field of vision on your receiver before throwing your intended play. If you don't keep the receiver within your field of vision, you can kiss any yardage goodbye because the pass will suck. It will be about as good as a Joey Harrington thrown pass for you Lions fans out there. In terms of realism, you can't really beat it. A real QB doesn't have that wonderful view of the field while sitting on the recliner in front of the big screen like us arm chair quarterbacks do. Unfortunately realism doesn't always translate into entertainment and in this case, your enjoyment level of Madden 06 will be directly proportionate to how well you adapt to this new scheme, particularly because it makes Madden harder rather than more enjoyable. The field of
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