Madden NFL 2005
Force the action on defense in MADDEN NFL 2005. New defensive tools allow you to make more plays and be in on all of the action. The all-new Hit Stick lets you lay the big hit to turn the momentum of the game…
Madden NFL 2005 is a simulator developed by Budcat Creations, released 9 August 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Madden NFL 2005 is
Madden NFL 2005 is a simulator game developed by Budcat Creations and released in 2004. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Madden NFL 2005 is an American football simulation video game based on the NFL that was developed by EA Tiburon, along with Exient Entertainment and Budcat Creations, and published by EA Sports. The fifteenth installment of the Madden NFL series, it features former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis on the cover. Al Michaels and John Madden return as game commentators. Released on August 10, 2004, the game is the first Madden game to feature Xbox Live.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Madden series
Madden NFL 2005 is the 37th of 122 entries we hold in the Madden series. It arrived 12 months after Madden NFL 2004. The next entry was Madden NFL 2005 in 2004. Its critic score of 84 is 9 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Madden NFL 11 at 86.
How it was received
Madden NFL 2005 holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Madden NFL 2005 launched on 9 August 2004, within three weeks of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, ESPN NFL 2K5 and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Doom 3, ESPN NFL 2K5, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Madden NFL 2005 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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