Madden NFL 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[Stroehms]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Loving the DEMO a lot. This is a great step up from previous Maddens. Yes from the DEMO there are areas that could use some work but from the DEMO alone I'd buy the retail in a heartbeat. Big time improvement for a GAME in one year. Can't wait to play it and have some ...wait for it... FUN...in this GAME.

Definitely agree, completely in love with the demo. Had buddies over to try it out and all of them were blown away by the improvement. Just a demo but still a nice step in the right direction for Madden.

[Jet Sufferer]

Quote: Originally Posted by pepp32

You people drive me nuts! I need this I need that......you act like 2k5 was unreal!!! 2k5 was butt when it came to gameplay. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Madden is for the old school gamer. People who have to have skills on the stick and understand offensive and defensive scemes. Not a game that does everthing for you, but a game that requires you to think to be good. Like a video game of football chess, you know. With Madden you have to have quick reaction to a hole in the lane to be able to run through it and recognize when a block is breaking down. Or even to understand how to break tackles or which side a d-linemen is being blocked from, so if he's being blocked outside you run inside if he's being pintched toward the middle you run outside and so-on and so-forth. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO RUN ON AN OUT SIDE PITCH! Seriously dude, you have to understand how to let your blocks develope and then turn it up field, not try to out run the D east and west or to the sideline hopeing to break a long run.....football is a north and south game. You can't hold on to the the turbo button in order to bust a long run! See as Madden fans or a gamer with great user skills we know that you dont hit turbo until you absolutely need to or once your out in the open field on a break away. Thats how Madden's run game works....Here is a quick break down for you scrubs or people who been hating on the game...You see, in order to manuver through the line of scrimage you have to have the ability to juke, spin, truck, stiff-arm or hesitate to break tackes. So when your running with a full head of steam or with turbo held down before you get through the line of scrimage or as soon as the ball is snapped your momentom will force a bad play. So it triggers the defenders to speed up and your o-line cant hold their blocks cause your not giving them enough time to set up their blocks or for them to even form a running lane cause you got your finger on the turbo button trying to break tackles or recognize running lanes. The game just doesnt work like that. Thats really why they slowed it down this year. You have to know how to recognize a blitz and then check down...you know i'm saying. Or how to put the right amount of touch on the ball. You have to have good user control. Period...Ya see, you dont need that in a cheeser game like 2k5. That game had great presentation and thats it! The gamplay was terrible and for apex to be so critical of ya'll erks the f*uck out of me. If I'm miss spelling words please forgive me cause I have a lot to say and Iittle time to type. So bare with me. 2k's gameplay can't touch either one of these demo's and I know it can't touch the real thing and I havent even played it yet. 2k played like a game you punched quarters into at chuckie cheese, you feel me. It required no skill and I hated the way the players moved and reacted to passes AND the way they ran for that matter! From what I can remember it was like their feet were stuck to the ground and they had a stick up their butt when they ran. Same thing with APF...terrible gameplay with that title as well. But this year we got the presentation we all been waiting for and then some.....This year we dominate! This year we OWN THE COMPITITION! People who been around this series since 93' know that Madden 10 is the best the series has ever looked and played...PERIOD! It's unfair to blaim Ian and his crew for past next gen devs who fell short in delivering anything even remotely close to what the new devs have done with this years iteration. I love it Ian, I f*ckin luv it! They have squeezed so much into one cycle its almost hard to believe. And all my friends luv it too! GREAT JOB IAN AND CREW....YOU REALLY OUT DID YOURSELVES THIS TIME....I LUV EVERYTHING ABOUT IT...AND IM TYPING IN BOLD CAUSE I WANT THESE HATERS TO KNOW THAT THEIR IN THE MINORITY THIS TIME AND WE..........US TRUE MADDEN FANS, WHO UNDERSTAND THE GAME OR IN SOME CASES PLAYED THE REAL SPORT ON MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT YOU ALL PUT INTO THIS GAME! I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE KNOW THE GAME IS NOW IN GREAT HANDS! I OWN A BARBER SHOP AND HAVE HAD IT RUNNING ALL DAY AND LET ME TELL YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING CRAZY ABOUT THIS F*CKING GAME! LET THESE LAME *** HATERS HATE AND BE CRITIC GEEKS ALL THEY WANT. WE PLAY FOR MONEY! WE RUN TOURNAMANTS, WE GO HARD AT THIS MADDEN SH*T OVER HERE IN CHICAGO! APEX AND THE REST OF THESE DUDES ACT LIKE WHAT YA'LL DO IS EASY AND THEY COULD DO MUCH BETTER....THEY DONT KNOW HOW MUCH EDUCATION IT TAKES TO LEARN VISUAL BASIC AND DEAL IN BINARY CODE.... AND HOW YOU DO THIS FOR A LIVING AND THAT YOU CANT FIT EVERYTHING WE WANT IN JUST ONE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE. BUT ME AND MY GUYS, WE KNOW AND WE UNDERSTAND....AND WE APRECIATE THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT YOU'VE PUT IN THIS YEAR AND THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNICATION YOU BEEN GIVING US AS WELL. NOW EVERYONES COMMUNICATING WITH THEIR AUDIANCE FROM FIFA TO NBA LIVE....SO KNOW THIS....ABOUT 15-20 DUDES ARE GOING TO INVEST IN YOUR GAME....CAUSE THAT WHAT IT IS A SMART INVESTMENT. THE RETURN IS SO SWEET HOW CAN WE NOT SPEND THAT 60$. LOL. LIKE THEY SAY IN VEGAS...."SCARED MONEY DON'T MAKE MONEY".....LOL. ONLY ON THE GAMBLING SIDE THAT IS! SO BIG UPS TO YOU IAN! YOU DID YOUR THING MY DUDE...KUDOS TO YOU, EA, AND YOUR WHOLE F*CKIN STAFF! WE GOT MADD LUV FOR YOU ALL HERE IN THE WINDY CITY! SO KEEP IT MOVING AND I KNOW THIS YEAR AND THE YEARS TO COME ARE GOING TO BE EPIC IN THE SPORTS VIDEO GAMING WORD! IM OUT! AND 2K FANS DON'T BE HATERS ALL YA LIFE! MAN UP AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY BEFORE YOU HATE! BUSTAS!

LOL! Holy Great Wall Of Text Batman!!!

The Senior Fanboy has spoken, let him speak for you:

We're all scrubs, we don't know how to play.

Madden represents foootball perfectly to the nth degree times infinity, if you only understood football, you would understand Madden.

All real life football strategies work in Madden as they do in real life.

And, let's not forget....2K sucks!!!

Let's hope you have spoken for thousands of your fellow travelers so we don't have to see this same post another thousand times.

And...2K sucks

[PGaither84]

I got the Demo tonight after work. I recorded me playing it, and a second game. I am uploading those two vids to youtube.

My impressions of the game? Momma said if you ain't got nothin' nice to say, then don't say nothin' at all.

I'm going to take her advice.

[Nintari]

Quote: Originally Posted by pepp32

Same thing with APF...terrible gameplay with that title as well.

You do know that Madden's new QB play was in APF2k8 first...right? I think I read through your entire post until I saw that and then it was like....next.

I really don't understand why people get so defensive. To me, APF2k8 is the pinnacle. Madden 10 is climbing that mountain, and it's a good deal of the way up there but seriously, 2k8 is as sim as we've ever seen. That doesn't mean Madden 10 is crap, because it's not. It doesn't mean Madden 10 isn't going to be a blast to play, because it is. It just means that there's a game out there that does some things better still. No need to get all hysterical about people pointing that out. If you do that, then you're no better then irrational 2k fanboys imo.

[AsianChexMix]

Quote: Originally Posted by feeq14

Just left my fiance' naked and wanting in the bedrom to play two games on the demo. Yea maybe a little too much information but I wanted to fully express how impressed I am with this game thus far.

Sex > video games even with the rumble feature from the controller.

[rckabillyRaider]

Hopefully the sliders work. Been seeing alot of INT's

[FOREST007]

Quote: Originally Posted by bang911

Ok, I havn't seen the jumping over the shoulder catches yet, so I have no comment on those in particular.

ive done it twice w/ the steelers and the ai did it w/ fitz

ive played a lot of games already so i think the tuning is cool. i liked that i kinda over threw it and holmes jumped for it...it was still over the shoulder, but the animation was an awesome sight to see. i cant wait to start my franchise, create my own identity

[NEWYORICAN]

Quote: Originally Posted by xylocaine

Is Chris Collingsworth "Back Track" Replay breakdown of replays still going to be in the final release or at least a new version of it? I thought that was actually cool, and basically the only presentation 09 tried to make? Anyone know the answer to these two questions.

This should answer you're question.