Madden NFL 10 Videos (IGN)

[Ian_Cummings]

Man was I parched or what! Give that guy some water!

I feel really great to hear the positive feedback guys...as everyone says there are still plenty of areas to fix up and polish but hopefully you all are definitely seeing the move in the right direction. It's a no brainer - "make Madden like real football" - and everyone just gets it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Valdarez

Same here, it was one of the biggest problems with reading the defense in '09. You could read a defender going one direction, throw the ball, only to have the defender make an instant turn to make a play. It was very unrealistic. Made for a harder game, but took a lot away from what you could do offensively for no reason at all other than that instant turn.

Just so you know guys...this is really a top issue for me. We have been making some pretty drastic locomotion changes as of late that I am hoping to get locked down in the next 2 weeks. I captured quite a few examples today with my capture station that made me smack my forehead (mainly around DB's and DL's being beat and spinning around at full speed) - so I'm actually working with Simon and the senior gameplay engineer this week to see what all we can do.


Also, we found a pretty global issue with receiver cut moves today that was really screwing up our route running. I was really getting upset that we did blogs on the route cuts and stuff and lo and behold marketing starts releasing videos that aren't even remotely close to it...and sure enough there was a bug there so I can't really blame them. We'll get it nicely polished though...that area is big for me as you all know.

Donny and I played a half today and we really had some fun moments. I took the Bills and he was the Bucs - lots of animation bugs that were driving me crazy, and there is still plenty of tuning on balance between run/pass to be done, but it's hard not to get a little bit jazzed when you start to see how all these tech improvements can change the game.

[LBzrule]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ian_Cummings_EA

it's hard not to get a little bit jazzed when you start to see how all these tech improvements can change the game.

And that's exactly how I felt when I left, although I didn't want to leave LOL. Once I saw the tech, I said all they need to do is tweak and tune this stuff and this game will be "there" and more.

[KANE699]

You didn't want to leave!?




I didn't want to go until I had to take a cab to the airport!!!!!!!!!!

[Derrville]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

There were some times where I got blocked. But for the most part controlling Ray Lewis I was able to bounce off blocks pretty easily and make alot of plays against the run.

I like this comment.

[apexbronx]

Pro Tak Looks Like it could be Taken Advantage of I'm sorry yall. Willie Parker Can't carry 4 Players in MOST situations. Now I did'nt say it can never Happen I'm saying its Rare

[adub88]

Ian, glad to hear you talk about the route running. I'm sure many people here were thinking what happened to the very realistic route running prototype we saw a while back after seeing the trailer.

[Ian_Cummings]

Quote: Originally Posted by apexbronx

Pro Tak Looks Like it could be Taken Advantage of I'm sorry yall. Willie Parker Can't carry 4 Players in MOST situations. Now I did'nt say it can never Happen I'm saying its Rare

FYI - Apex it will definitely NOT ship like that. For all of these demos (including the trailer) we've enabled on a debug option for the max number of players to add on so we can show off the feature.

Now at community day people were breaking out of them like crazy...that's another tuning item altogether...but you won't have to worry about this at all.

[Droopy03]

I do see some improvements in the game and it looks as it's going in the right direction. great job EA