Game of the Month: August 2006

With all the videogames that are released each and every month, it can be quite a difficult task to decide which title to spend your hard-earned money on. Granted you could go by our review scores alone and weed through the long list of names to find something that scored high or low, but what if you had somewhere else to turn?

Rather than wait until the end of the year like for our big award blowout, your incredibly masculine friends at IGN.com have decided to employ a monthly tribute to the weeks that were. We're resolved to illustrate to our readers what we thought was the very best game for each system over the past month, and tell you the reason why.

While some of us often chime in with our comments at the end of reviews, for the most part, the reviews on IGN are primarily written by one editor; in this feature we get all of the editors on a particular channel to vote for our Game of the Month. What better way to represent your channel than to speak your mind all at once?

How does it work? Simple. Any game released in the past month is eligible for the award and is taken through a battery of tests by every editor on that particular channel. After we've finished evaluating each game that comes down the pipeline, we put our heads together and decide on a single "best of" winner that's worthy of the title "IGN Game of the Month". Pretty straightforward, don't you think?

Now that we have the guidelines out of the way, let's move on and congratulate this month's winner...

Why We Picked It::

Wait, wait, wait. You're really wondering why we picked Madden 07 as our Game of the Month? Do we even need to mention the 8.3 score, or the fact that no game on Cube has outscored this mark since Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones back in December of 2005? Didn't think so. Madden delivers to a system that needed a kick in the pants, and Cube owners smart enough to pick this one up with get just that, as Madden is a seriously solid game of football.

There's really nothing more to say. So, in classic football fashion, here are a few awesome quotes from some of the most legendary players in NFL history:

"A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch." - Vince Lombardi

"If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother." - Bo Jackson

"To win the game you have to score more points than the other team." - John Madden

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