Madden 09 Demo Released, Impressions Here

[annan]

What a disappointment. I hadn't played a football game since 2k5 and was hoping madden would get it right this year...nope. This game plays like madden on the xbox with better graphics (and the grpahics upgrade is marginal, everything besides player models looks average to bad (fans are terrible) IMO.

I think this entire engine needs to be scrapped and built from the ground up. I'm sure it won't be since EA has nothing to gain but it needs it bad. I have a feeling we will be seeing the same game for ALONG time.

[Delray]

Has anyone spun/juked out of a tackle animation yet? I've tried a 100 times and can't seem to do it. I've been playing NCAA 09 since it was released, which I didn't attend to get this year and I have to say that I really like it more than the Madden demo! I know it's just a demo, but the tackle animations, and IMO....graphics look better on NCAA. For at least 3 months now I've been waiting for Madden, before that I wasn't even going to rent it, but now it looks like I'm going to keep NCAA and wait and see the reviews for Madden before I buy it. Every year is the same ol' song and dance! If it wasn't for me missing football so much in May I wouldn't start watching Madden videos and get so disappointed when I finally get to play it! I'll do it again next year...I'm sure!

[Whaaaazuuuuup]

EA must feel very confident in Madden this year. as you recall the past 2 years EA would release that years demo when the retail version was already released...

[MissionMaximus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Moegames

Since threads and posts and reply's are magically being deleted and edited..i'll post my 2cents here...geezus ------------------- Im not here to bash Madden 09 as i see definate improvment from last year and previous versions.They are heading in the right direction but something is OBVIOUSLY wrong with their current so called next-gen madden engine. Its missing something..i cant pinpoint it. A company as big as EA could definately make a new engine for next year.. remember when NFL2k5 come out? That year it used a brand new engine smack dab in the middle of xbox 1 console life cycle..so making a new complete engine IS POSSIBLE for a large company such as EA because if 2ksports did it ..so can EA. I really think EAsports or more specically Tiburon is missing the entire point of what a football SHOULD BE..it should be fun, polished and exciting to play.. Madden has never been that really..even on the old consoles..it was never FUN..it played damn good..yeah but it was not fun ..it felt dead, dead as a door knob. This current gen..though it looks pretty.. believe me..CAN and SHOULD look way better then this. WHat baffles me is that they had how many years at a producing a great football game on 360 and ps3? Like 4 times now they pumped out a Madden on these next gen systems and have yet to get it right.. this MUST tell the head people at EA that something is NOT right at Tiburon what so ever.. i feel a HUGE shakeup is needed with the staff and dev team that is behind Madden on 360 and ps3..its time for a big change.. You kno what pisses me off is that we only have one NFL game each year now days..this is TOTALLY RUINED it for the gamer.. all the big honcho's at EA and in the NFL Orginization has totally screwed it up for us by going exclusive. Im just saying compeition brings in more effort at making a game better then the competitor's.. since there is no competition, the effort into making sure bug's,flaws,improvents,etc is less of an issue now.. and this is what we get put on our dish at dinner time now.. Im glad to see Madden09 improve as much as it did this year..thats great but its still not there yet and to me..thats a big blow to me as i've waited since the first madden on 360 up until now for a great looking and playing football game and i still dont have it. I bet my life if NFL2k was still in the mix.. we would have atleast one good playing and looking football game that would be blowing the socks off our feet right about.. let it be Madden or NFL2k..we would have one good football game at this point right now if there were two diffrent NFL games out there.. its just a damn shame that business men and dollars has taken away all of this from the gamer..what s shame. WHat baffles me the most is that remember NFL2k5, i can assure you their development team is dwarf by Madden's dev team but yet NFL2k5 was just as good if not better then Madden. Some of you guys would be in total disgust if you knew what kind of crap goes on behind closed door. You think poltics can get dirty and sneaky? My uncle is in the videogame industry somewhat and he tells me the kind of stuff that goes on behind closed doors..its nastier and more crappy then politics itself. You guys would be blown away by the sneaky tactics and stuff like that that goes on behind the videogame biz. If NFL2k5 could be so good with the amount of development manpower behind that game.. why cant Tiburon ACE it with triple the amount of manpower? SOmething is NOT RIGHT here..change is needed and no..not just one or two guys coming to the Madden team for 2010 editon..i mean a REAL shake up..its been long enough now guys..come on

Amen brother! Graphics look nice but not WOW. The animations doesn't look realistic they move at superhuman speed. Overall the game needs to slow down a little to make the game look like it's real life counterpart(then maybe the field would seem a little wider and longer.) Presentation is improving but it still is light years beyond 2K5 (how can this be with 4+yrs to improve it and the next Gen power to play with.) I remember with 2K5 when you had a facemask penalty you could actually replay that play and actually see the player with a fistfull of the guy's facemask. I remember the first time I played NFL2K5 it was WOW!

[X*Cell]

I'm hoping the Natural Motion engine in Backbreaker is good enough to turn heads and take away sales from EA... give em a nice little kick in the balls. With the amount of money EA has and their hunger for buying out the competition, they could possibly consider buying out Natural Motion's football engine... maybe this will be their REAL SHAKEUP.

[gta95]

Better than last year, still not good enough for me to purchase. I don't trust Tiburon AT ALL anymore (except for NFL Head Coach, I hope they can't mess it up because it looks excellent as of now). Until we see a new engine (which I doubt they would want to invest the time in putting together because they may have to spend a little *GASP* money), I may not play Madden or NCAA.

[ak1knight]

Quote: Originally Posted by X*Cell

I'm hoping the Natural Motion engine in Backbreaker is good enough to turn heads and take away sales from EA... give em a nice little kick in the balls. With the amount of money EA has and their hunger for buying out the competition, they could possibly consider buying out Natural Motion's football engine... maybe this will be their REAL SHAKEUP.

Backbreaker won't sell because it doesn't have the NFL and comes out in like October, the same reason APF sold a fraction of what Madden sold last year (except for the realease date). The whole reason most people buy football games is to play as thier favorite NFL/NCAA team, not just for the love of football.

[Harlemal]

People are still giving impressions on the demo. And i see its more of the 2k Kool aid drinkers on here. LOL. I Laugh every time i see a comment like that on a Madden Board.