Madden 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here

[Champ24]

Quote: Originally Posted by kcxiv

The one thing i do like about this game is the grass. Its top notch. The game looks really good before the hike. Once you hike it, i do not like their animations at all. They just dont look fluid to me. Game play seems to be a little bit better, but the game plays hell of fast you dont have time to react to anything. lol They throw real bullets. Well that is unless you lob it then you will have the defense all over the ball, so thats a no no unless your going 1 on 1 deep or on a fade. Another thing that irks me with Madden games is the damn pocket. There was no pocket. My guys get so bunched up it looks dumb. It didnt happen on every play, but alot. Another thing, why cant you play defense? i am a defensive guy. I want to see how the defense plays. I know offense appeals to the casual fan, but at least let me play some in a demo.

OMG!!!! Your sig is the most hillarious sig I have seen in my life. LOL. I counted at least 11 360 turns in the vid. That is officially stupid. Gosh, I try to give EA the benefit of the doubt in all that they do but this is ridiculous. Where in the ?$*! is the defensive pursuit.

Sorry for going off tangent. Thanks for the Madden impressions.

[Nza]

My brother was playing the demo and came across a bug/quirk. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but if you pause the game after you score a TD, you can avoid the "Game Over" screen. What happens is you pause, and then resume, and the game goes to the extra point and then the kickoff. Unfortunately though as soon as the Pats are tackled on the kickoff the demo ends again, and the pause trick doesn't seem to work to avoid that.

This was with the 360 demo. Sometimes we had to pause, resume, pause, resume a couple of times for it to work. Also, sometimes the game won't pause after a score, I think it only works when the scorer doesn't start an immediate celebration, which is probably more likely if you catch the ball in the end zone and don't take it in on a big play.

[Vince]

Madden, when he's talking reminds me of Zordon from Power Rangers.

[NC State-31 UNC-27]

Quote: Originally Posted by NC State-31 UNC-27

Thanks for the impressions everyone. One question.....CPU quick snap? Is it like NCAA? I assume no because of the need for Peyton to take all day, just making sure we can take advantage of pre snap control on D.

Oops, I just realized you can't tell from the demo since you can only play offense.

But does anyone know?

[PaperLantern]

Quote: Originally Posted by Vince

Madden, when he's talking reminds me of Zordon from Power Rangers.

Haha I forgot all about that dude. And looking back, that couldn't have been more corny.

[J.R. Locke]

I might buy Madden this year!! I am really impressed with the demo. I haven't ever bought next gen and this will be the first year. Accelerated clock and custom playbooks being the biggest reason I am moving on up from Madden PC.

Loved the animations, very smooth game. OL/DL interaction is so much better than NCAA. Running the ball is fun, can't wait to run some old school offenses!

[loganone]

Quote: Originally Posted by jrcain

I might buy Madden this year!! I am really impressed with the demo. I haven't ever bought next gen and this will be the first year. Accelerated clock and custom playbooks being the biggest reason I am moving on up from Madden PC. Loved the animations, very smooth game. OL/DL interaction is so much better than NCAA. Running the ball is fun, can't wait to run some old school offenses!

Accelerated clock doesn't exist and if you want custom playbooks you have to buy Head Coach seperately.

Welcome to next-gen football!

[kardashian]

So is the demo on Pro or All-Pro?