Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

[PGaither84]

yes, strategy pad

[Hova57]

don't remember strategy pad

[Phixius]

Thanks to PGaither84, I feel a little more optimistic about Madden but I still want to see the gameplay myself.

[ch46647]

The "strategy pad" was one of the first things I noticed when watching the video. Hopefully this will be back to a carbon copy of the PS2 pre-play controls, or a similar function to APF 2k8. Defensive pre-play controls have been awful in this series to the point I dont even use it anymore.

As the controls stand now you literally have to hit 4 buttons to get 1 guy to do something different. The design is absolutely terrible.

[Valdarez]

The Strategy Pad is for all those guys that have been complaining about the lack of strategy in Madden.

[Phixius]

Quote: Originally Posted by Legend Killer

Why do some people on here keep assuming madden crew is not focusing on franchise mode. Just because they have not mention nothing about franchise mode doesn't mean they have not worked on it this year. Every part of the game has a department working on it. Josh Looman works on Franchise mode. It ain't like Looman just gets up and walk away to another departmnet and work on something else. I'm sure Josh and his small crew is doing their best to focus on both offline and online franchise mode. We have 4 months until madden is released. Plenty of time for blogs. Don't worry so much. But overall it is nice to see them doing alot for madden this year. Can't wait until the trailer tonight.

EA didn't mentioned anything about franchise the last 3 years and nothing has change, so it's safe to assume that the same is likely to happen again.

[RogueHominid]

Man, I'm amazed at how many good eyes there are on these boards.

An APF-like pre-play adjustment system would be phenomenal. I am in agreement that the current system is a tad cumbersome.

It does seem to me that they're doing a nice job of blending ease of use and solid strategy/sim football knowledge. Not easy to do . . .

[thedude213]

It's sad that one of Madden's big improvement this year is Game Flow, which is basically Ask Madden without the menu between plays.

I just wish Madden would cut the bull with all these "innovative" features and just fine tune what is already in the game. Every year it's another feature that isn't well thought out or flawed, so instead of fixing it, they just make something else for next year's game so you forget about the flaws in the previous one.