Madden NFL 13 Video - Replay Footage and Packers vs. Bears Pre-Game (Pastapadre)

[baller_of_the_year]

The lip synching of Nantz and Simms is Laugh Out Loud horrible.

They GOTTA fix that.

I'll probably still pass on this year's Madden unless is mind bogglingly brilliant like NBA 2K11 and 12 were. After all, this is where Madden SHOULD be by now in it's seventh year on Next Gen consoles. Not in what is essentially a "rebuilding stage". That shoulda been in Madden 06. With the exclusive deal and the ESPN exclusivity the amount of potential squandered by EA over the years is quite simply embarrassing.

[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by baller_of_the_year

The lip synching of Nantz and Simms is Laugh Out Loud horrible. They GOTTA fix that.

Now that's probably a product of being pre-alpha. That's something they should and probably will fix.

[MrChainsaw]

Quote: Originally Posted by baller_of_the_year

The lip synching of Nantz and Simms is Laugh Out Loud horrible. They GOTTA fix that. I'll probably still pass on this year's Madden unless is mind bogglingly brilliant like NBA 2K11 and 12 were. After all, this is where Madden SHOULD be by now in it's seventh year on Next Gen consoles. Not in what is essentially a "rebuilding stage". That shoulda been in Madden 06. With the exclusive deal and the ESPN exclusivity the amount of potential squandered by EA over the years is quite simply embarrassing.

That being said, I'm sure you will still end up buying the game on release day.

[johnnyg713]

Positives - I love the new read and react system. Finally EA. Hope it works as well as advertised, but gotta give credit where it is due. Pass trajectories are awesome. All the NEW animations look great. The catch animations look really good. Even the drop back animations and throw on the run animations.

Negatives - Almost all the other animations beside the new ones. Regular Throw animations look untouched and look terrible. Running animations are bad. OL/DL WR/DB interactions need work still. Player models don't do it for me either.

[GiantBlue76]

My big beef about animations is not necessarily that the animations are all that bad, it's that they do not occur within the right context and it looks ridiculous. If a defender has his back facing the ball he shouldn't be able to suddenly flip around and reach out and make a one handed interception. Or how about a receiver snagging a pass with one hand over the middle and getting crushed by a safety and still holding onto the ball? Come on... This madden looks just like the other ones. It ALWAYS looks really good. When the demo comes out and I can try all of this out, I'll start believing if it's really there. There is nothing they can show me in videos, screen shots, or anything else they state that will be able to win me back into believing they are capable of making quality football. I need to see it for myself to believe it.

[SageInfinite]

Did they remove the sig qb throwing animations? Everybody looks like they throw the same in this video. That's definitely a fail if they did.

[baller_of_the_year]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrChainsaw

That being said, I'm sure you will still end up buying the game on release day.

I haven't bought a Madden game since Madden 04...lol

Seriously. I skipped Madden 05 and bought NFL 2K5 mostly because of the price drop and the screenshots I saw of Sportscenter. It was the best gaming decision I've made in my life. NFL 2K5 is the best football sim of all time only challenged in raw fun factor by Tecmo Super Bowl (yes, I know it's not a sim, but it's the funniest game ever made, imo).

It seems after 2005 EA Sports descended into a lazy, half hearted, arrogant company that felt they didn't hafta to work to sell their sports games (sans Fifa) all they had to do was stamp EA Sports on the box and throw money at the screen and voila.

2K captured my heart with 2K and 2K1 on Dreamcast but after Dreamcasts demise I went back to Madden (though I still played 2K and 2K1) my updates were Madden until the price drop when 2K won my heart back.

And EA has proven to not be worthy of the responsibility of being the sole provider of a sports sim. The fact that they released Madden 06 stripped down to the bare bones with NO COMMENTARY and NO REAL FEATURE SET after releasing what was a good game a year ago on PS2 was an absolute slap in the face to the fans, the NFL, and the Madden name itself. I've been disgusted with EA ever since. And sentiment has only grow with their half hazard efforts and lame excuses for piss poor products then sense.

So, no...I won't be buying Madden 12. Unless word gets out that is truly as revolutionary as 2K11 or 2K12. Til then, my fingers stay crossed for the eventual NFL 2K release.

[DeuceDouglas]

I see a lot of people complaining about the Roman Harper clip where it appears he is mirroring the route ran by the receiver. I didn't think it was that bad. If you watch it, there is a decent delay between when Winslow breaks and when Harper breaks. It still looks a little odd how Harper is trailing and then magically jumps in front to deflect the pass but overall I'm okay with it.

In M12, the corners and safety's a lot of times would break on the receivers route before the receiver did. It was most evident in In's and Out's where as soon as the receiver started his break animation the corner would automatically run to where the receiver was headed.