Product Description

Now your PDA and smart phone can bring you the #1, authentic NFL simulation game, Madden NFL 2005 from EA SPORTS. With groundbreaking graphics and enhanced high resolution, no other game brings you the realism or takes you closer to the experience than NFL football. Includes the latest player and team data for 2005 so you can use real NFL teams, players and their stats. Customize your play with an amazing array of options.

Product Details

• Brand: Palm
• Model: P10995U
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Palm OS
• Format: Smart Media
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Choose between Playoffs, Regular Season and Exhibition Games
• Create your dream team - make player trades, acquire free agents
• Play both sides of the ball - offensive and defensive features add more strategy to every game
• Allow for player fatigue, injury, passing and catching capabilities
• Choose the stadium, weather, and penalty frequency & more

From the Manufacturer
Available for the first time ever for PDAs and mobile phones, Madden NFL 2005 provides the latest player stats and team line-ups and is completely updated for the 2004-2005 season. Compatible with Color Palm OS 5 and higher devices, and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC 2002 and higher devices.

Features

• The Real NFL-all of the NFL teams, new team logos, and player rosters completely updated for the 2004-2005 season
• Best of Class Graphics and Animations amongst Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC games and groundbreaking for Palm OS entertainment applications
• Incredible Flexibility of Game Play Options-change stadium location, weather, allow player injuries, allow players to fatigue, change passing and catching options, set sound effects, control the frequency at which penalties are called and more!
• Playoffs, Regular Season, and Exhibition game modes-all tracked with updated game stats
• Multi-player head-to-head mode via Bluetooth or 802.11b (over the same access point) with compatible devices (feature update available fall '04)
• Create a Team-the ability to create the team of your dreams though trades, or choose from an extensive pool of free agents
• Create a Player-the ability to blend stats from multiple NFL players and customize your own unique NFL player (feature update available fall '04)
• Actual voice recordings-hear the real John Madden and Al Michaels commentary unique to this version of the game
• The Latest Music- Includes the new lead song for Madden 2005
• Landscape game play or normal portrait mode
• A Jam-Packed Playbook-call all the shots with over 200 authentic offensive and defensive plays

Compatible With

• palmOne Zire 31 Handheld
• palmOne Zire 71 Handheld
• palmOne Zire 72 Handheld
• palmOne Tungsten T Handheld
• palmOne Tungsten T3 Handheld
• palmOne Tungsten T5 Handheld
• palmOne Tungsten C Handheld
• palmOne Tungsten E Handheld
• Treo 600
• Treo 650

Customer Reviews

Some good aspects, but made cheaply
Some great game calling features like the game you would expect, but not as good as one might expect for the price.

Pro:
-Amazing play calling
-Play your favorite team
-Add the weather factor
-Cool sound and voice overs... I was surprised and impressed

Con:
-Don't expect a manual with this classic adaptation. You'll need to download it to enjoy the advanced schemes and play calling.
-There's no CD, so if the card gets zapped (like mine did) you'll lose it forever. Make the back up before you play!
-Adverse weather options, like snow, are for the computer's benefit only. Don't expect a white playing field.

Bottom line: not recommended. I did not have it very long (it crashed and I lost everything because there was no CD). I was surprised that the big box it came in was essentially empty. Looks like the manufacturer decided to go cheap and leave out the CD and manual, two items I would have appreciated as I needed them. If they had these, would have ranked 4 of 5 stars. Lack of snow and other stuff cost them the last, 5th star.

I have 2006
It is better as it comes on a CD and the Graphics and play calling are great but the biggest pet peeve i have is you cannot save a game whikle playing and it is easy to hit a button and take your self off the game which like i said the game does not save games so if you are at 1:00 to go in the fourth quarter and you hit a wrong button you lose your game and must start over. EA is a cheap company that really should be held accountable for this garbage packaging No manual either have to download that. Way to expensive.

Great Game Play!
This game is great for PDA Play! Obviously you're not going to get the same results as if you were playing on a home PC but, it shares many of the original game features like you might expect. Actually, the game play calls are quite amazing! Voice-overs and sound effects are very impressive! You can play your favorite team and even add a weather factor for added difficulty. The manual is available on line and can be viewed and printed from there. The game is loaded on the included SD Card which fits into the expansion slot. You should backup this SD card in case you zap the card with static electricity. Overall, this is a very cool game and should be a part of your PDA Software library. I give it 5 Stars!