EA Sports vient d'offrir un nouveau patch à Madden 2004, le dernier opus de leur excellenté série de football américain. Si vous disposez d'une carte graphique dernière génération (GeForce FX ou "grosse" Radeon), vous aurez maintenant le plaisir de voir les tenues des joueurs se salirent au fur et à mesure que la partie avance. Autre amélioration graphique, le rendu des casques "Fleck" (utilisés entre autres par les 49ers de San Francisco) a été amélioré pour plus de réalisme. Et puis bien sûr nombre de petits bugs parfois gênants ont été corrigés. Indispensable donc pour tous les quelques amateurs de ce sport spectaculaire.
* Uniforms will now get dirty over the course of a game. This is an advanced feature and only available on high-end video cards. ATI Radeon 8500, 9700, 9800 and above, and nVidia Geforce FX series.
* Players are now affected by stadium shadows on pixel shader supported video cards. This is an advanced feature and only available on high-end video cards. ATI Radeon 8500, 9700, 9800 and above, and nVidia Geforce FX series.
* "Fleck" or metallic helmets should now look more realistic. Teams that use this helmet type are the Buccaneers, Eagles, 49ers, Panthers, Patriots, Raiders, Saints, and Seahawks. This is an advanced feature and only available on high-end video cards. ATI Radeon 8500, 9700, 9800 and above, and nVidia Geforce FX series.
* Playmaker controls should now work on all gamepads that have dual analog sticks.
* Roster/stat export now includes team name as well as first and last player names.
* Fixed issue with too many sacks occurring in Coach Mode.
* Accelerated clock on works in IP to IP games.
* Fixed the issue where franchise could not continue when Sign Player was set to CPU.
* Fixed the issue where the Main Menu would become inactive after right clicking on in-game Pause Menu.
* Fixed crash with a saved game in Franchise mode.
* MP3 file path will now accept valid characters.