Madden 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here

[CaptainZombie]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoMiss2000

The glitch hunting begins...sigh. It's a demo people.

You have to be kidding me right, someone has reported glitches based off of a demo? WTF! People are a piece of work.

[TheVinylHippo]

You can give me a warning, ban me, do whatever the hell you want, but this demo is pure laziness on EA's part.

We're hardcore people and we'll buy it, but if I'm a guy that just said, "What the hell, I'll download this", and I play this demo that wants me to buy this game, I'm not getting this game.

[ab2c4]

I just played the ps3 demo. I realize it is a demo and not a finished product but overall I wasn't impressed. The game felt totally unlike anything I have played and that isn't always a good thing but might be over time.

The one good thing I have to say is that the graphics are amazing. Simply amazing.

On to the bad. There seemed to be a lot of lag in the controller. I would press buttons 2-3 times for something to execute. Where this was really bad was when I had a receiver wide open, no pressure on Manning, I would press the button and he wouldn't throw the ball! Nothing. A second or two later I was sacked. This happened numerous times.

The players seemed very "light". There just didn't seem to be any weight to them like in NCAA 09 or Madden 09.

I know I had other points to make but I'm really tired and I am gonna call it a night. I am going to play the demo again tommorow as well as try the 360 demo (it might feel different than the ps3 version to me) and over time hopefully my impression of the game will change. This demo is really making me want patch #2 for NCAA 09 to come out fast.

[Radioactiveman]

[quote=kerosene31;2038557696]I never feel in control in Madden. It is like you just hit the controls and hope the right animation pops up. I can't describe it really. [quote]

I understand what you're saying and I agree completely. It's like the game controls itself and you're left with the feeling that you can't manualy control a player and make a play on the ball. Let alone actually switch to a guy that you're not controling and be in a position to jump and deflect a pass or defend a pass. It's not a problem in the PS2 version(s) of EA's football games.

I feel like EA has sucked the life out of it's football games on next gen. I used to line up the day of a Madden release, I literally have no excitement what so ever to get this game and probably won't.

[ab2c4]

One other thing I just thought of. Prior to taking a snap, when looking at the play art of the pass routes they seemed very cluttered. Too many times there were 2-3 lines close together and I wasn't sure which line after a while belonged to which receiver.

[ab2c4]

[quote=Radioactiveman;2038558046][quote=kerosene31;2038557696]I never feel in control in Madden. It is like you just hit the controls and hope the right animation pops up. I can't describe it really.

Quote:

I understand what you're saying and I agree completely. It's like the game controls itself and you're left with the feeling that you can't manualy control a player and make a play on the ball. Let alone actually switch to a guy that you're not controling and be in a position to jump and deflect a pass or defend a pass. It's not a problem in the PS2 version(s) of EA's football games. I feel like EA has sucked the life out of it's football games on next gen. I used to line up the day of a Madden release, I literally have no excitement what so ever to get this game and probably won't.

After reading that, that reminded me of another thing. I never really felt like I was in control of my players. Then again, that some what of goes with my point when I said the players felt very "light".

[ab2c4]

One more thing, then I swear I am going to bed. I have never seen so many dropped passes by WR's in my life. Honestly, I think my WR's only caught 2-3 passes to them, all the drops happened when they were wide open and the ball hit them in the hands.

Granted, the WR Catching slider should fix that.

[callmetaternuts]

Quote: Originally Posted by ab2c4

One more thing, then I swear I am going to bed. I have never seen so many dropped passes by WR's in my life. Honestly, I think my WR's only caught 2-3 passes to them, all the drops happened when they were wide open and the ball hit them in the hands. Granted, the WR Catching slider should fix that.

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