Armchair quarterbacks want leading video game publisher Electronic Arts to give up 20 yards and replay the first down, after discovering a vexing glitch in the latest version of the company’s top-selling “Madden NFL” football game.
Owners of “Madden NFL 2005,” the new installment in one of the biggest franchises in video game history and a perennial cash cow for EA, are complaining about the glitch in online forums and demanding various remedies. An online petition–with 300 signatures and counting–essentially calls for a recall, in which EA would replace current game discs with ones in which the glitch is fixed. The glitch involves one new feature and one old one–both intended to make the game a more realistic recreation of professional football. The new “formation shift” feature allows a player to move offensive players at the scrimmage line, potentially confusing the defensive line. It apparently works too well, tapping into the older “fatigue” feature meant to recreate a team’s gradual decline on the field. Keep punching “formation shift” commands during a game, and the opposing defense will get so fatigued that it all but falls over.
Source: c|net
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