My favorite feature new to this years installment of EA’s Madden football is undoubtedly the Online Franchise mode. The ability to bring not only my stick and play calling skills but also my managerial skills online really gets me going.

One of the nice things you get to do is make video mashups of your online games. It’s pretty easy to do, the first thing you need to do is save highlights from your game. This must be done BEFORE you exit the contest. Under the game recap menu just select the highlights mode, go in and pick any notable plays from that game and save them to your hard drive.

At that point you need to go into the Madden menu and upload the highlights to the EA servers. From there you must go online to www.easportsworld.com and login using your ea account information. The front page there should have a link to video highlight reels, click to follow the link and you’re all set.

You can drag and drop different sound files they’ve got, things like ambient crowd noise and cracking football helmets and pads. Mix and match your highlights and sync up the sounds and youre good to go.

Below I’ve posted my highlight reel from my first player versus player matchup. My Bills jumped out to an early lead on a couple of Maurice Jones-Drew touchdowns and shut down Brandon Jacobs and the Buccaneers pass game. Forced to take to the skies in the second half to get back into the game, the Bucs sails were slashed by a couple late picks by Louis Delmas. Final Score was Bills 31 bucs 24. Feast baby…