The Hit Stick also unleashes some of the most brutal tackle animations of any football game around. Hit Stick tackles force more fumbles when timed right, smacking the runner down with a thud while the ellipse (or "oval of revolution" depending on your math knowledge) shaped ball bounces around the turf for your defense to pounce on. Once you get the move down, however, it becomes one of the most lethal maneuvers in the game. The more you try it, the more you learn that, like everything, it's all about the timing, and in order to time the flick of the right analog stick correctly, you'll need to hit the Hit Stick a little earlier than originally imagined. You might curse the Hit Stick, even give up on using it, but that would be a huge mistake. When you first learn to use it, or even when you first start playing 2005, you'll probably miss-time the maneuver and watch as your defender stumbles past the ball carrier and gives up a big gain. The feature that seems to get the most attention, and is sure to fill the mind with some of the most devastating highlights ever seen in an NFL simulation, is the Hit Stick. The developers at Tiburon have successfully implemented elements that ruin past football games for the simple fact that once you play with the Hit Stick, once you play with defensive hot routes, once you play with offensive formation shifts, then you try to go back to playing 2004 or even ESPN on the consoles for that matter, you're left lost, missing the level of depth and ingenuity included in Madden this season. ![]() But play on All-Madden and try these same tricks and you'll be slapped with a reality that stings harder than a Ray Lewis spear. ![]() ![]() Sure, keep it on Pro level and you can still run up the score and throw off of your back foot 40-yards to a streaking receiver. The Game If you played last year's offensive showcase, the game built around Michael Vick and explosive offenses that only slowed down to fake a handoff, then get ready to completely relearn how to play Madden. Who needs the 0-3 Chiefs in real life when you can take them to the Super Bowl on your PC. If you're a PC gamer, all you need is a handy dual analog controller and it's on.
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