By Alexandru Stanescu, Editor, Gaming Reviews (Consoles)
21st of May 2007, 13:18 GMT
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Madden NFL 2004 is the 14th installment of the Madden NFL series. Due to its great depth of features, it is widely considered to be the most complete football video game available for a console system as of 2004. New features in Madden 2004 include a new owner mode option that allows the player to control a franchise. In this mode, the player takes on all the responsibilities related to owning a professional football team, from regulating hot dog prices, to team relocation, to hiring and firing coaching staff. Another new feature is the ability to edit a historic team. In previous versions, historic players did not have their names on their jerseys, due to NFLPA agreements.
For example, Walter Payton is HB #34. In '04 you can change that and put his real name in the game. Also, a new training camp mode, occurring before the preseason, has been developed that can help player progress faster by putting him through mini camp drills. If one does well in these drills, points are earned to add to a player's attributes.
Unlockables
Cheerleader - Complete "Game Situation" Challenges in mini-camp to get this for your team
Madden Cards - Get a gold rank in any event on the All Pro, Pro and Rookie levels in mini-camp mode.
Pump Up Crowd Cards - Complete "Game Situation" Challenges in mini-camp to get this for your team
Easter Eggs
Special Dates Set the GameCube's calendar to Halloween (10/31), Thanksgiving (date varies) or Christmas (12/25) to hear Al Michaels mention it in his pre-game speech.
Glitches
99 Attribute Players for Low Salaries in Owner Mode
Step 1. Create a player with everything you want him to be EXCEPT for the attributes. Leave them alone.
Step 2. Create the player.
Step 3. Sign him to a 7 year deal.
Step 4. Go to Features -> Create-A-Player.
Step 5. Go to the player you signed.
Step 6. Go to Attributes.
Step 7. Set all stats to 99.
You will have a 99-attribute player for 7 years and a low cap hit.
Easy sacks of the opposing quarterback By exploiting an easy to learn AI weakness, you can score a sack on nearly every play in Madden 2004.
When on defense, pick the Free Fire blitz from within the 4-3 package. Move your two interior lineman away from the ball one click each, move the lineback on the left down and move the middle linebacker a little bit to the right and a little down. When the offense snaps the ball, the left tackle will go to block the linebacker on the left, the left guard will block the defensive end on the left and the center will block the middle linebacker. This will give the interior lineman on the left side a huge hole and have a free path to the quarterback, which is a tactic that the offensive AI will hardly ever account for and can easily lead to several hundred sacks throughout the course of a season.
For even better results, sub in one of the fastest players from your defensive backfield into the position of the lineman that will have a free path to the quarterback so that you can sack him that much faster.
Substitution glitch Thanks to being able to use any playbook in the game on offense as well as the ability to line up any player at any position, you can easily use this to your advantage and move the ball virtually at will.
Regardless of what team you're using, choose the Washington Redskins playbook and then put your best wide receiver at fifth on the wide receiver depth chart. When on offense, run the Slants play from the five wide receiver Shotgun formation. This will cause your best receiver to either be matched up against one of the worst defensive players from the other team or to be wide open outright on virtually every play. The defensive AI will never figure this out and you can literally run the same play over and over again until you score whenever you have the ball. In the rare event that the defense drops back or adds extra defenders, simply Hot Route your best receiver and have him run a curl route; he'll always be wide open due to always being against one of the backups from the other team.
This obviously works best with a team like the Vikings or Colts (who have Moss and Harrison on their teams, respectively), but the glitch is so cheap that you can use it with virtually any team in the NFL and have easy success.
Secrets
Change Song To change a song at the main menu (or any where except in gameplay or in a match) Press the Y button. Hold down the Y button. The help screen will pop-up. Then keep the Y button down and press the L or R button. R goes to the next track. L goes to the previous track.
Here's an NFL player losing his...hand due to a rather weird game glitch:
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