December 19, 2006

Lag-free Madden?

This weekend Powerpuff and I fired up Madden 2007 to give it another go.
There was a recent update that according to the forums, fixed the
game's absolutely terrible lag when playing across large distances.
I've written on here about the terrible experiences we had in the past
when trying to play Madden. Since we are on opposite sides of the
country, our games would run in slow motion and were completely
unplayable.

So, on Sunday morning we hook up for a quick match before the real NFL
games started. We both had very little hope that EA actually fixed the
issue, but we were both desperate for some decent on-line football
gaming.

I'll be damned, the game played great!

The lag-fest from before seems to be completely fixed. The game we
played was fast and completely playable. The difference was pretty
significant. I'm surprised EA decided to finally address this problem,
considering the game has been out for a while and its on-line community
has slowed down considerably.

Either way, it looks like Powerpuff and I are going to be doing a lot
more football gaming in the coming weeks. Let the rivalry begin!!!

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