Madden NFL 10 Hands-On Preview (IGN)

[whoady4shoady]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ian_Cummings_EA

Hmm. Let's say there are 5 million copies of Madden sold this year. Of those Madden 10 buyers, how many do you think have played more than one previous Madden iteration? 1 million? 2 million? 4 million? It's definitely way over half. Now, how many Madden 10 buyers played APF 2k8? 10,000? (How many copies did they sell?) And in respect to 2k5, even if say 500k of the Madden 10 players played 2k5, that was 5 years ago...I can't expect someone to remember their game style from back then. A very high percentage of the Madden fanbase is used to "not" having a pocket. So on pro mode, we make the pocket a much safer place to be than we do on all-pro. So if Nate wasn't "feeling the pressure" that much, that's actually how we want it to be. It would be a total dumb move to make it so casual Madden fans get sacked every other play the first time they boot up Madden NFL 10. Nate (and everyone) can always step up a skill level if they want it to feel like an NFL experience. However, the end tuning goal is to make you pay if you actually drop way out of the pocket...but it's early and that's not there yet.

That is all you had to say. Thank you so much Ian.

[K_GUN]

Quote: Originally Posted by NYG 5

btw, where are you guys getting the community day info from?

he's one of the attendees

aka 'the elite 8'

[KyGamerLT]

Good Job Ian, I know the game will play a lot better when it's time to ship and people will just say WoW and scream like school girls when they pop madden 2010 in. I'm sure there will be problems but we are about to experience 9 man gang tackling and a more realistic game we should be happy for that.

Some people should think about what level the game is being played on, like when ian was showing a play and hit ward deep like it was nothin (not saying you're horrible in the game Ian) you could tell it wasn't on all madden ( I hope all madden is online this year) so it will be easy. The game will have it's flaws but nothin is wrong with improvement.

[MattIntellect]

Hopefully Ian reaches his goal of having you to pay if you leave the pocket.

[TreyIM2]

Ian, my dude, thanks for responding. I posted on the IGN PS3 posting of the hands on and hopefully, all will be panned out. I really have nothing to say cuz I'm actually hyperventilating about this game, currently, because I cannot wait. U sound like u have everything under control. I have no doubts that this not only will go down as the GREATEST Madden ever but the GREATEST football game of all time. Keep up the great work.

[kmart2180]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

For the record, there were 33 throwing styles at Community Day... not all of them were working, so maybe they've removed them, and maybe they've addeds some. From what I remember, I think it was every starter LAST year plus one generic one (meaning Favre and Garcia... not currently starters... were there... strangely, Alex Smith is the 49ers QB from last year to get in, not O'Sullivan or Hill).

Bummer although I dont plan on keeping Hill past 1 season in Madden. If would have been cool as sh!t to see his weird dropback and Release.

Overall Great Read! The review was fair. Things just continue to get better. Love the fact that there are alot of qb styles.

[DONF]

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Max your sales effort, use the forums (similar to our home), the rest is history.

[DONF]

Ian stated - However, the end tuning goal is to make you pay if you actually drop way out of the pocket...but it's early and that's not there yet.

what is considered way out of the pocket? 5 yards, 10 yards, 15 yards???