Madden NFL 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[JMD]

Played one game so far. I was the Cardinals I won 13 -7. My only TD was an INT returned for 6. Also made a 53 yard FG, was impressed with that.

Complaints so far:
1.The kickoffs look strange to me. It appear as if the ball is going almost striaght up in the air.
2. Don't care for "Fight for the fumble" I hope this can be turned off in the full game, I seem to remember Ian saying it could.
3. Accelerated clock, don't care for this either, also hope it can be turned off. looking at the game set up aera it looks like it can.

Positives:
1. I feel like I am playing a game of football, not some cheap arcade version of football.
2. The game looks amazing.
3. My one request to Ian appears to be in the game. FORWARD PROGRESS YES!!!! My TE caught the ball 1 yard away from the 1st down marker and was pushed back 3 yards, the ball was spotted where he caught it and where his forward progress was stopped. Not 3 yards back like Madden 09.
4. The A.I. seems to play much better defense. In Madden 09 I could hot route to me TE and get at least 5 yards every play. Not so I was not even able to run the play twice with out it being stopped the second time.

More once I play about ten more games. Can't wait to play the full game with the Chiefs.

[steelers1]

I enjoyed the demo. Here are some positives and negatives I saw.

+The game sounds awesome without the commentating, maybe that's how I'll play it.

+The presentation was great. Aaron Smith also looked exactly like Aaron Smith. That was cool.

+QB heave animation is cool

-Game said Roethlisberger only had 7 4th quarter comebacks, but including the Super Bowl this year I think it's actually 18.

-The lob is still too moon-bally for me.

-Still don't like running animations, and players can still turn on a dime.

-Breakaway cam doesn't really fit in with the broadcast style of presentation.

-Run blocking still very suspect.

***Problems I personally had, but can fix with sliders/practice:

-A few too many drops. When I had Sweed drop passes it was understandable and cool, but Miller and Holmes also had a few drops on pretty routine catches.

-Troy dropped a pick and I lost the game on All-Madden by an unhealthy margin. I need practice badly.

-I assume the lack of defensive pressure is because the 'adjustment' Ian made wasn't too long ago and didn't make it in time for the demo.

-Pro Tak seems to make for quite a few more broken tackles. Kinda too many for me, but I can tone it down a little with sliders. Only realy saw one 'group hug' pro tak animation where it didn't seem like momentum occured.

***I also saw a couple bugs that I hope were ironed out.

The clock kept running once on an incompletion and once on a pass completed out of bounds during my 2 minute drill that forced me to burn a timeout.

Fitzgerald caught a TD pass and was injured and carted off the field, but then it showed him up celebrating the score.

[adembroski]

Couple of quick impressions found on twitter

SamIAmSONs Madden 10 is gggggaaaaarrrrrrrrbage!!!!!!!

AttackThis Madden 10 demo a big Meh...no play by play...lame.

bigdaneaymane Madden 10 demo was worthless. Let me know when the real game comes out.

[Football4Natic]

Quote: Originally Posted by da bucs gm

That's not 100% fact I've had the FS I was playing with be subbed out on the fly because he was tired. Casey hampton get subbed out on my game because he was tired. That statement isn't 100% fact

do you even realize what the hell you are responding to my friend..

On fly subs are not in the demo...You cannot control the sub patterns of players...if the player gets tired and the cpu takes him out for you that does not mean on the fly subs.....

[WildFireXXI]

Quote: Originally Posted by NEWYORICAN

I just found this video of this guy reviewing a play on the demo..interesting......

I don't think the guy understands what a pull is and how the Steelers DL/LB is going to shut it down anyway. Seems about right to me

[ridemooses]

The demo itself is pretty decent, however EA continues to monopolize football games by forcing you to pay 5 bucks to get the REAL demo. The free one isn't even a demo it's **** you can barely even put a drive together before it's halftime. EA is getting greedy and trying to milk the popularity of Madden for every dime they can get. Disgusting. I wish another developer would make a football game so EA can finally realize how ridiculous they are being thinking they can do whatever they want and get away with it.

[Illustrator76]

Quote: Originally Posted by LAKE4742

Okay, the one animation that really bugs my nerves is the damn 'attempt a INT turn into a tackle' animation. On the jostling vid the player was in front, and did a 360-which is hoooorrible. But, I just witnessed it from a CB behind the reciever. The CB went up to catch it, and then warped onto the recievers back, in mid air! That's just nuts, man. Ian, pleeeease get rid of that one. The thing is, because the game plays so slowly, it's so easy to notice, and just kills it, for me, and briefly takes me out of the experience. Wusah.

Yeah I have seen this one too, it's in NCAA 10 and it's killing me too, LOL.

[PantherBeast_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by matroska

Wish my 360 demo code worked..

I am just wondering if all the people that has been complaining bout code not working. Try to use the code before 23. Because if any of you who say the code don't work. Must of tryed it out before the today. If you did use the code before today. Then most likly that code was deactivated. Thats the only reason why I would thing people are having do much trouble with their codes not working.