GD has published a review on Madden '08 for the PSP and it looks to have taken the unflattering honor of being the worst version on any platform. It was awarded a score of 6/10, suffering from a range of issues including a lack of modes and a poor multi-player set-up. A further cause for concern is that this is Madden's third outing on the PSP and it still is severely lacking in terms of quality.

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Sadly, this appealing content comes crashing down when it comes to multi-player. Football pros can try their luck hooking up with others through AdHoc and Infrastructure, but it just ends up being nightmarish. Finding someone to play with is hard enough, but having to endure connection problems and lag throughout the simplest of game set-ups? It's just too much to even bother, unless EA can somehow mend its server issues. (That still won't solve local play problems, though. Good luck with that.)

Madden NFL 08 for the PSP feels like the black sheep of the family, a game that wants to fit in so badly with the rest of the football clan but comes up short way too often to get there. Maybe next year we'll see a game with better timing throughout its presentation, a functional multi-player set-up and more modes. Right now, though, it just feels like a contender -- an odd situation considering this is the third Madden release for the system.