Madden NFL 10 Gameplay Video: Eagles @ Cowboys (IGN)

[mike75]

Quote: Originally Posted by destroyer

i just saw the vid... wow... looks exactly like Madden 09! the atmosphere felt the same. the crowd is dead, commentary is the same, sounds very 'automated' doesnt feel live whatsoever.. Why did the fans booo when the cowboys got the fumble? ONLY difference was the cut scenes and a little bit of presentation Running animations look identical to 09 IMO very "robotic" im renting to buy... not wasting 65$ this year, no sir.

100% AGREE

I am very disappointed in what saw in this new released Madden 10 video!

I just don't see it being much better then 09!

I guess I better face the fact that Next Gen Madden will never be as good as Last gen Madden.

[rckinAPhilliezhat]

After watching the video(Eagles vs. Cowboys)..I couldnt help but notice these size issues that madden has always had..and to make my point..the guy that looks like jamarcus russell playing left tackle(eagles)..is sappose to be this guy...



I dont know if its the angles..but the offensive line of the cowboys and the eagles looks smaller than their quarterbacks.

[Rashad19]

Quote: Originally Posted by xxplosive1984

My fault man, I thought you were bashing. To everyone else, there is still over a month left of development time to tune everything and make a few more changes. I think they have made some good strides though. However, they must address the pocket issue. There was way to much time back there. As soon as the ball is snapped, the tackles need to open up and start to form the pocket. I would be accurate as hell if I had that much time. In a real game, you've got about 4 seconds to do something or you're toast.

Exactly! Those tackles need to open up at the snap of the ball and the DE's should be getting up the field a bit before their touched!

[bigD_916]

Can't really judge Madden 10 till I see uninterrupted gameplay....

[T9R]

The game attempting to form a pocket is an outstanding step to begin with, but I agree with LBzrule and others that it's far too wide and slow forming. Hopefully this has been heavily tuned

[Da Bears]

Video was cool.

[ofdman]

I agree 100% with TC here. It's the first thing I thought about when watching the new game play vids. It looks just like last years. I was hoping that they would improve the animations at least a little but it's the same old thing.

I still have hope (as I do every year for some strange reason) that the game will be enough of an improvement in the game play department that us football fans will enjoy it but... we shall see.

I absolutely HATE the animations in Madden. Especially when a player turns. It is the weirdest looking animation I have ever seen in a video game. Strange, odd looking robotic movements in Madden have always bugged the crap out of me and this year it is more of the same.

I am also weary of the new gang tackling system. I have seen a bunch of the new videos of game play and I haven't seen one single bit of this new system. I have seen vids of JUST the new gang tackling but none that show it form. I hope it looks real and isn't a gimmick. EA claims it isn't a gimmick but... we shall see.

[TheWatcher]

The Good:

*F3's camera angle was nailed, plus the implementation now looks like part of the presentation. I couldn't be more pleased with how this was done. It looks like somebodies feedback was taken real seriously, and I think that was wise

*The vignettes look great.

*I think the animations look good. I remember saying to Ian how much I liked a lot of the new tackles, so this video didn't disappoint.

*The post-play camera's look good.

*The TD Camera is finally making TD's look important. Good job.

*I like the branding of EA Sports as a Network here. I think they tried this last year (and over-did it), but this looks better.

And now for the bad...

*Where's Depth of Field? There were a lot of times that should've kicked in, but didn't (like during pregame warmups, and during the Touchdown scene). That concerns me.

*Tom just doesn't sound much better to me. Maybe I just need to hear more, but it's not looking too good right now. I still feel the way this stuff is being recorded and pieced together is the primary issue (I'm actually certain of that part), and the secondary (but very important) issue is the written material he's getting.

I'd also like to point out the obvious level issues. Tom says one thing and then another part is said at a different volume, and the disparity is painfully obvious. Since those lines I'm referring to are context connected (during the coin toss), I find it strange that whoever edited this didn't either A. Get rid of one of those lines and connect with a different one, or B. Re-record the line that didn't level properly. I engineered music for years which is fun but can be hell to do in terms of its complexity (mostly self-taught but did work with some well-noted guys), and I know factually from experience that what I just described is pretty simple to do when all you're doing is working with spoken non-singing vocals.

The difference between a good engineer and one that misses basic stuff like that is the ear. You either have the ear or you don't. If that's how the final is going to sound, then well... all I'm saying is, you either have the ear or you don't, I'll just leave it at that...

*I HATE that big red ball landing circle with a passion. I'll never like this. I just don't understand the point; there was nothing wrong with what was already being done.

*I like the fact that there is a temperature read at the toss, but hate that I can't select my own temperature in the game!

*There are some camera stability issues. This was the same issue we saw with Madden 09 during post-play when the early vids came out. You can see the problems in 10 during the pre-game warmups where the camera is not 100% stable and you really notice it when Roy Williams is warming up. You'll also notice it on the TD, too. The camera's are too loose, they really need to be pinned down and fixed to the position so there is no movement as a result of the player movement, not even slight movement. Again, same issue Madden 09 showed in early vids.

*It sorta seemed like the Eagles were celebrating losing the fumble fight, lol. I saw this in Alpha, too.