Madden NFL 09 Review

[beardofspock]

Quote: Originally Posted by blackngoldfan

I am in complete agreement with you DONF. The demo plays very different from the released game. When I played the game it felt like an early build. I'm still seeing the same hated animation of the 2 defenders flying in like rockets to take out the ball carrier, then all 3 players fall backwards like a bomb was planted between them (from Ians "Low-light" tackling animation video) I liked the smoothness and toned down speed of the demo. The demo is what sold me. It's funny that that the reviewer notes "Speedy gameplay brings pro feeling to life." as a positive. I do like the game, but there needs to be a gamespeed slider in the game.

Ha, man, some people really are drinking the anti EA kool aid, eh? The demo was from an older build, and it pales in comparison to the retail game, imo.

[Rbk]

That's about what I'd give it.

[blackngoldfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by beardofspock

Ha, man, some people really are drinking the anti EA kool aid, eh? The demo was from an older build, and it pales in comparison to the retail game, imo.

I know the demo was from an earlier build. How does the demo pale in comparison to the retail version? I've played the demo a TON and have seen those bad tackling animations less times than I have in the short while I've played the full version. Why when in the playcall screen, the screen on the right is going crazy as if I had my thumb on the right stick? Excluding the hiccups after snap (In just 1 play DVD), I just prefer the overall speed and smoothness of the demo over the retail version. Feeling that way doesn't make me anti-EA.

[metallicatz]

Solid review.

[Chitown1211]

Come on dude. How can you shrug off the CPU qb issues like its nothing? You didnt even mention how CPU qb's fire the ball perfectly at any hint of pressure. Often in rediculous and impossible ways. Thats why CPU passing is so effiecient. Yet you chalk it up to being "realistic" ?!?!?!

I dont get it. In many of your reviews you list MAJOR problems yet in the end you say its a great game ??? Something as important and fundamental as passing in a football game cant be shrugged off.

[mrgecko0]

This game SUCKS! DONT BUY! FLAWS, FLAWS, FLAWS. The r tons of cheats out there and I am still in shock that EA gets paid to produce something that doesnt even work. 50% of my games end in a disconnect or freeze or bullsht bomb TD or fumble return.

[mrgecko0]

GAME STINKS. AND REVIEW STINKS, this guy only played one game is wowed by the pretty lights

[Swingking77]

There is no mention of the speech. It repeats more then any other Madden I've played and the voice sounds terrible... It doesn't sound like it flows... What it sounds like is Waylon Smithers' computer start up "Hello.. Smithers... You are.. Quite... Good at... Turning... Me... On". If you listed through a good system, you can so tell that it's choppy... And I must hear "He's been de-cleated" at least a hundred times in a game, which in itelf is a terrible clip to begin with... As though some one held him down and cut off his cleats... I know they mean taken off his feat, but it's a stupid comment non the less...