Madden 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here

[RGiles36]

I'd too like to chime in with some brief impressions...

-Like most have already said, the graphics are flat out stunning! I don't think anyone in their right mind can dispute that.

-I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but I feel like there's too much loft on some of the passes. Maybe that's just me.

-I'm not too impressed with this highly touted breakaway animation engine. I was looking to see some new creative tackle animations and break out of several of them. But for the most part, the tackling doesn't look or feel much different than that of Madden 08. After seeing the clips that EA marketed this year regarding the new animation engine, I expected much more.

-All in all, it feels like good ol' Madden gameplay. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing depends on what side of the fence you sit on. I do hope to see the game speed toned down in the future though (along w/ players walking to the line of scrimmage ).

[PVarck31]

Im really liking the demo so far. I am not seeing a problem with dropped passes. If the defense plays well and there is no robo QB, I will be very happy. Although I am a little concerned about the slider situation.

[SoxFan01605]

After reading through the pages of this thread the only thing that is clear is that a demo means nothing for the most part. I've mostly enjoyed the little demo and am looking forward to my rental, but it hasn't swayed my opinion one way or another. I was on the fence, and I'm still on the fence (though admittedly on the more positive side of the fence, I guess). Let's face it...those who went in looking for crap, got crap. Those who went in looking for good, got good. funny how that works, huh...lol

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoxFan01605

After reading through the pages of this thread the only thing that is clear is that a demo means nothing for the most part. I've mostly enjoyed the little demo and am looking forward to my rental, but it hasn't swayed my opinion one way or another. I was on the fence, and I'm still on the fence (though admittedly on the more positive side of the fence, I guess). Let's face it...those who went in looking for crap, got crap. Those who went in looking for good, got good. funny how that works, huh...lol

Truth.

[Bgamer90]

Here's mines...

I took the IQ test and got all-pro in everything. Personally I don't really like the IQ test. It's too long imo. It would be better if they just gave you the option to have your IQ tested in an pro difficulty exhibition game and determine it from that. Now on to the game. As soon as the game started I noticed how much the graphics improved. They look great. In terms of gameplay the game plays smoother then 08 but I couldn't really get that much of a feel for it since they only let you play offense and also because of the limited time. Anyways this isn't a good representation of the final game due to a lot of missing features that will be in the final game and also the lack of time you actually get to play it. Chances are they want Madden IQ to be the biggest feature out the list since they gave us a full demo of that but they should of in turn also gave us a regular 2 min per quarter demo of a normal game. Overall this demo is disappointing not in terms of how the game is going to be but in terms of comparing this to the amount of game time you get in other demos. So I can see why this is getting a lot of hate. But the 2k fans / madden haters are thinking that the hate is coming in terms of mostly how the final game will be which is causing others to think the same. So in conclusion this will give bad publicity for madden 09 until other reviews for the game come out and also until the actual final game comes out in less than two weeks.

Also another thing, I was disappointed that they got rid of QB vision. While most people didn't like it I personally liked playing with it and got use to it. But it's no big deal really.

I also chose to kick a field goal (though it basically automatically fails you for the madden moment) just to see how it looks when they put the net up. The angle is pretty neat...

[bigtxambition]

Me, I'm just pissed that the Xbox 360 owners got to play the demo before us PS3 owners. Damn you EA.

[Bat]

Its way too easy just for Plax to out run the db for the deep ball. Though it doesn't seem like the same use a tall wr and he jumps over everyone deep ball everytime.

[slim_pickens]

Quote: Originally Posted by BrianFifaFan

Going to pay off my CE edition tomorrow. That's all I need to say about the demo......

Same here and I'm a 2K supporter!