Madden 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here

[eldogg]

1 thing i really dislike and don't know if anyone mentioned this is, that if you keep flicking left and right on the r-stick he constantly jukes with your motions.

after awhile he stumbles but before that happens just as fast as you can flick that stick is as quick as he does the move.

very unrealistic to me. it's bad enough the player can break almost every tackle, but now to do all thosre jukes in rapid succession is not possible.

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by FlyingFinn

Anyone else thing the bullet pass travels TOO fast. It looks strange to see a football time warp from point A to point B.

Yep, it does seem to ("bullet pass" has never seemed so apt). I wonder if the dropped passes could be attributed to the receiving animation not being able to catch up to the pass? Hopefully it's not just a way to garner more "realistic" pass stats.

[GQman2121]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

for whatever reason, the design team decided to remove it. I don't like it either.

Brilliant.

My mates and I talked about this last night over drinks, and although some of them would just pick up the PS2 game, most don't have that luxury being 40gig(PS3) owners; so they're they just not going to play any Madden this season - again.

So that's about six sales pissed away right there over something as practical as control options. Bravo.

[GQman2121]

Also, while playing the demo last night we noticed that if you roll to the right with Manning and make a dash for the first down on foot, that the MLB (Bruschi) will occasionally not react at all. It wasn't until well after Eli had hit open space for the first down that he attempted to make a play. He just continued to play zone, side stepping to his right. It was very odd and apparent as we all noticed it and rushed to check it out in the replay.

The one impressive thing that did come out of the play was that as Manning made his way towards the sideline for the first, the CB (Hobbs) who was with in arms reach of him seemed to let up, as too not get flagged for unnecessary contact out of bounds. That's certainly a first for the series, intentional or not.

[andayaman]

I made the preorder for this game last from Sports Authority since I was a big 08 online fan. The improved graphics and lighting did it for me at first.

Then Madden's warping issue got to me this morning while playing the demo. My breaking point came when Adelius Thomas was covering Steve Smith on a crossing pattern. Smith had a step on him, so I threw him a ball. He warped another 3 steps in front of AT, so AT was now chasing him upfield from behind. The CB on the right side stood Smith up for a brief second, AT warped in front of Smith, and they both pushed me backwards.

I stopped playing the demo at that point. I decided to give the APF demo a try since it's been on the backburner while I played the 08 full game. It was such an improvement to me, minus the fact that it wasn't an NFL game. It makes me wonder why I didn't give it a chance last year. I cancelled my 09 order and I'll be looking to pick of APF for this year.

[callmetaternuts]

They said this year you could break out of tackles with well timed spins or jukes (after you are already in a tackle animation). Has anyone had any luck. Everytime i get in a tackle animation im done for (like years past). Ive tried with jacobs (stiff arming and trucking), with bradshaw (spinning and juking) and nada......

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by callmetaternuts

They said this year you could break out of tackles with well timed spins or jukes (after you are already in a tackle animation). Has anyone had any luck. Everytime i get in a tackle animation im done for (like years past). Ive tried with jacobs (stiff arming and trucking), with bradshaw (spinning and juking) and nada......

Actually I did this morning tater as I ran for a TD with Jacobs. I bounced outside on what was supposed to be an inside run, stiff armed TBru and then was at about the 5 yard line when I was met head on by a DB and pressed the stiff arm button and pushed him off and scored. It was pretty sweet.

I am really, really stoked for this game.

[SimBaller22]

WOW I just saw the nicest one handed grab ever....I threw a swing pass to Jacobs and he reached back for the ball since it was overthrown and with one hand gently snatched the ball and in the same motion went up the field and trucked meriweather...but the catch was so sweet... eli threw it behind him so he had to reach with his left hand the other way and grabed it and went up the field...sweet new one handed catch animation out of the backfield....

i cant wait till tuesday for this game... i get it early every year...Holla