Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[Live Boii]

i DONT DO FOOTBALL. BUT IMMA DO THIS. NUFF SAID

[RGiles36]

Quote: Originally Posted by ab2c4

I can't wait to play the demo tonight. I am kind of surprised to hear so many complaints, maybe they are justified, maybe not. I wonder how different the retail version will be?

Yeah, I think people are crapping prematurely on Madden. The strategy pad warrants the criticism, but the demo has only been out a couple hours lol. How can you declare that NCAA blows this out of the water so fast?

[Whammer]

In a word- AWFUL!

Next gen Maddens have sucked and Madden 10 was the first Madden I had bought in years. I downloaded both demo's last year and loved the game, finally they had made a pretty decent next gen Madden. I went out and bought Madden 10 and really enjoyed.
There is NOTHING about Madden 11's demo that would cause me to go out and buy this game.

I played the hell outta the NCAA 11 demo and loved it and could not wait to get the game. I'm loving NCAA 11 and there is nothing about that game that really bothers me. It's a blast to play.

NCAA 11 is the hands down winner this year and I won't waste anymore of my time playing the Madden 11 demo. The good news is I just freed up 1.4 gigs of HD space on my 360.

[ps3veron]

Exactly people, give it a chance, too much hate on a demo.

By the way guys, are the Old Spice ADs excessive?

[thedudedominick]

Quote: Originally Posted by ps3veron

Exactly people, give it a chance, too much hate on a demo. By the way guys, are the Old Spice ADs excessive?

It is a demo impression. It is a bit unfair to judge a final release of a game vs a demo, but I am one of those who feels because of NCAA and this demo, I will not buy madden this year unless I hear amazing things about the final release.

Also the Old Spics ADs are ridiculous.

[DGuinta1]

Haven't had a fumble or int yet. Good thing though Revis had one hit him right in the hands, and he dropped it. Not!

[Dax(FlowLyfe)]

Im just going to compare to NCAA.

Locomotion - Madden [ ] NCAA [x]
Madden locomotion feels half assed, in NCAA the animations are smooth fluid and you feel the weight of your players, in Madden it feels exactly like madden 10 while lugging a 40 pound weight behind your players.

Animation - Madden [ ] NCAA [x]
NCAA has fluid and realistic looking animations, great sideline catches, DB's don't swat balls down without looking at them, and usually when they try its a blown coverage.

In Madden, running looks robotic and animations are choppy. On the first run play I did i got a 3 yard gain ran into a defender, my player slid to the side and sucked into a defender and cut from one position into a new one to play a tackle animation.

Also in the madden demo, when throwing passes, Quarterbacks dont set their feet, i threw a deep bomb with Manning out of the 5 step drop and he hucks it without any throwing animation while standing still. The only thing that animated was his arm. Every time you throw deep in NCAA the QB sets his feet and throws his hips into it and the animation finishes even after the throw every time.

Gameplay - Madden [ ] NCAA [x]
Madden's strategy pad is horrendous, previously in Madden games you could hit 2 buttons to make a defensive change, now its a string of menu's from the directional pad, and good luck starting from scratch if you hit the wrong thing.

Maddens gameplay is an exact duplicate of Madden 10 with locomotion (nowhere near as good as NCAA's) and gameflow which i got sick of after 5 straight plays where the guy called like 5 straight deep passes. Suction blocking and tackles, no real gang tackling to be seen, dissapointing.


I dont think i need to explain much more.

NCAA 11 is the best football game of this generation of consoles and Madden is the same madden with some frustrating changes to pre-play controls..

[Mike Smoove]

Well I have already got/played the full version so these are my pros and cons.

Pros
-Catch debugging tool works lots of catch animations.
-Gus Johnson is excellent. You wont get pauses in commentary in full version.
-Graphics are best in the series for Madden.
-Deep ball is back.
-So far the cpu has challenged the correct rulings.


Cons
-Run blocking is not as good as NCAA.
-Ball travels too slow in the air.
-AI rubberband still there.
-I cant find out how to do hot routes there is no instructions on how to do it. Not even on game controls.
-Locomotion not as good as NCAA.

NCAAF 11 > Madden 11