I forgot to mention, there *is* one thing about Madden 08 I don't like that I believe is still the case in 09 - you can't create your own players or team.

I forgot to mention, there *is* one thing about Madden 08 I don't like that I believe is still the case in 09 - you can't create your own players or team. Well, there is a career mode where you create a player and then get drafted and you play that player through his career, but that's different from being able to create your own team or make lots of different players to have in the league like Power Pros (or pretty much any other sports game).

The franchise mode is pretty strong for single player. I think it only runs 10 years, but I'm only in season 4 (2012) on mine (like Power Pros, I play every game rather than simming). I haven't played it much this year though to be honest, I've been more interested in going back through several PC RPG games the last few months rather than playing on the Wii. I've also been spending more of my free time playing guitar and working on recording some songs rather than playing video games. But anyway, the Madden franchise mode gives you a good amount of things to do. You're the all in one owner/GM/coach and of course can control the players during the games or sim if you want. As owner you get to decide on things like prices on tickets, concessions, parking, and souvenirs, and what (if any) stadium upgrades you want to do in the off-seasons, and how much to spend on various types of advertising/marketing, etc. You're also the GM that builds the roster through the draft, trades, and free agency. And as coach you have the flexibility to design the playbook and customize various aspects of how your team plays - like aggressive vs. conservative on offense/defense, pass/run ratios, etc etc. That's more relevant to simming games than if you're playing them. But even with simming you can options just call the plays and let the CPU sim the results if you don't want to actually control the players yourself. Good stuff.

Neve been big on Madden, last one I ever bought was the one with McNab on the cover. Would like to get a football game for me but how does the wiimote work compared to playing with a joystick like the ones you use for x-box or playstation? With PS you have 4 side buttons, tri, circle, square, x, plus the analog...wii you have a,b,z,c, (1, 2 but those would be kinda hard to hit in game), it's about half the buttons so how does the wiimote handle it?