Madden NFL 2005
The first Madden on Xbox Live, and the year ESPN NFL 2K5 struck back.
Madden NFL 2005 is the fifteenth Madden game, released on August 10, 2004 with Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis on the cover. EA Tiburon developed it with Exient Entertainment and Budcat Creations, Al Michaels and John Madden called the games, and it was the first Madden to support Xbox Live.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- EA Tiburon
- Exient Entertainment (GBA, DS)
- Mobile Digital Media (Mobile, Zodiac)
- Publisher
- EA Sports
- Series
- Madden NFL
- Platforms
- GameCube
- PlayStation 2
- Xbox
- PlayStation
- Windows
- Game Boy Advance
- Nintendo DS
- Mobile phone
- Tapwave Zodiac
- Genre
- Sports
- Modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
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Background
The game went through around 13,000 testers and its soundtrack included Green Day's "American Idiot" before the song came out as a single. Reviews ranged from mixed to universal acclaim depending on the platform, with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions scoring 91 on Metacritic, and critics kept comparing it with ESPN NFL 2K5. That rival launched at $19.99 against Madden's $49.99 and hurt Madden sales enough that EA cut the price to $29.95. In December 2004 EA Sports signed an exclusive deal with the NFL and NFLPA to be the only maker of NFL video games, a deal renewed many times since. Madden NFL 2005 still sold more than 4 million copies in its release year.
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