{"id":269,"date":"2005-08-20T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-20T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T13:48:51","slug":"madden-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/20\/madden-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased the last copy of Madden NFL 06 PC at my local Gamestop this afternoon.  An odd thing occurred during the purchase.  After looking around for the game, I asked the clerk if they had the PC version available.  He walked over to the display case and removed the box, which apparently had no CDs inside.  While I was swiping my credit card, I noticed that he went into a draw and removed CDs to place inside my copy of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was the last copy in the store I didn\u2019t complain, but is this common practice at Gamestop?  Some sort of security deterrent?  I was initially concerned that my product ID code wasn\u2019t going to work if somebody else used the CDs.  But I\u2019ve loaded the game and everything is working just fine up to this point.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you\u2019ll notice when Madden loads is the \u201cNFL Exclusive License\u201d text added to the familiar intro screen.  Graphics are gorgeous at 1600\u00d71200 32-bit with everything at the highest level.  I played a quick game (Texans vs. Colts) and will post more impressions as I move through various modes.  Geoff is getting a copy so we can try out the online features.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased the last copy of Madden NFL 06 PC at my local Gamestop this afternoon. An odd thing occurred during the purchase. After looking around for the game, I asked the clerk if they had the PC version available. He walked over to the display case and removed the box, which apparently had no &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/08\/20\/madden-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden PC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}