For a lot of these Madden and other sports title reviews, I really don't have much to say. It's a yearly franchise of American football games, they are all fairly similar etc etc. It's nice then, or perhaps not so nice in this case, when there is some interesting history behind the game. Madden 06 came out the year after the consensus best NFL game of all time NFL 2K5. EA had managed to bully 2K games out of the market and as such Madden 06 was the only NFL game available that year. Add this to the fact that it was the first NFL game on next gen consoles, there was a lot of pressure on EA to make a good game. With all this pressure, Madden 06 ended up being a stinker and the worst Madden game on the console. It was obvious that the development of the game had gone poorly, with the 360 version being so much worse than the PS2 version. The game just feels off. Collisions look weird and often send your player in the wrong direction. Catching animations are bad. There's a huge lack of features. The game just doesn't run well at all. I found numerous glitches and really long loading times during my time with the game. It almost feels like the console is struggling to run the game. There is no reason to pick up this game on the 360 unless you like easy achievements.