Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[cake612]

Hasn't Madden had the problem with the CPU snapping the ball way to quickly for the past 2 or 3 years and then everyone complains about it and they end up patching it. How does this keep happening. Way more noticeable when you choose a gameflow play since you have to check the play art just to see what is going on at first and then decide what to do instead of picking a play and then start with adjustments right after. If your the Dlineman after the play call screen your done if you like to play DB since they basically snap the ball right as you select you guy most of the time.

[HittinAgenda]

This is probably a stupid question, but has anyone tried just doing the M10 pre-snap controls and ignored the strategy pad? I swear I did press coverage on one of my first plays via the Y-button, R-stick down method before realizing I was supposed to use the D-pad. Probably just my imagination though.....

[SA1NT401]

Final thoughts on the DEMO after 12 games played ...6 times by each team.

-Strategy pad still sucks. Thought after a while i would get used to it. Its clunky and awkward.

-Warping to the ball is very obvious and tackle animations are not varied. Keep seeing the same 12 or so over and over...Maybe thats all of them?

-Kicking, to me at least, is painfully easy(er) than the RS method. Thought they wanted to do the opposite? But i see it as an even easier system.

-Commentary overall even with Gus, i find annoying, repetative and unnatural. Wasted talent by both(Chris is excellent IRL as is Gus).

-Gameflow-Like the concept and i think more time and actually putting a gameplan together could make it worth it. Need more time with it.

-Player Models....IMHO, they look terrible. The whole "Look" of players is off. Some player models are so skinny, i wonder what they were going for. The models just dont resemble anyone they are supposed to aside from the faces (which look great btw).

-Lighting is....Nothing special to me. NCAA trumps this area several times over.

-Passing is...well passing. I see no change either positive or negative. LB superpowers do appear to be back though.

All in all....Meh. NCAA is giving me more at this point than i think madden will this year. After a few weeks when people here have had it and have posted the good/Bad what glitches or bugs hurt and other stuff, then i will decide if i want to invest $60 in Madden again. But as of now, just not much there in my eyes to warrent another purchase.

[TastyRambo]

yeah its obvious madden didnt take a big leap like ncaa did. I feel ncaas locomotion is more fluid and realistic compared to maddens. Dislike the strategy pad in madden, probably because I was so used to the old audible system..I thought the commentary was pretty boring they need to get rid of chris collinsworth. It seemed like there was long pauses and just awkward yelling from gus johnson, he would get too excited for like every play.

Only thing I really liked was the passing game and showing real life players on the sidelines, otherwise it seemed ncaa was just flat out better...

[Spongedaddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by SA1NT401

-Commentary overall even with Gus, i find annoying, repetative and unnatural. Wasted talent by both(Chris is excellent IRL as is Gus).

I am thinking that this is a problem with their voice over director. Both guys sound uninspired and Gus' Swagger man pitch is funny for all the wrong reasons.

[Sublime12089]

I enjoyed the demo. Went from a game I was def going to pass on to a rent and see how I like it. That can still change with final build impressions though.

[mr_president]

Quote: Originally Posted by AndyP

The word on the street over the strategy pad is that it was done precisely to make it harder to make multiple pre-snap adjustments, the kind that nano-blitzers would pull when playing online, stuff like that. I guess they did make it harder, difficult enough to make one pre-snap adjustment in fact. As for cut-scenes I would like them to take the realtime approach of games like MLB The Show, the players just go back and forth about their business and it plays out exactly as an MLB game should.

great..another band aid...i guess just out right fixing it (the nano) is out of the question.

[Afrikan]

Quote: Originally Posted by ODogg

I thought I was the only one who read that and thought MastaJedi'1 sons both died.

I didn't get to that part....I was still stuck scratching my head on this

"The graphics on the 360 are better"