Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[SincerelYourz]

madden 11 isn't bad, its just not a huge improvement of madden 10 (which is a solid game)... I honestly think they have been working on madden 12 since January or February

[AirLobo23]

I absolutely love this demo. I hated Madden '10, but i can't stop playing this. To each their own, but i'm one happy person right now. Bring on the 10th!!

[dethpuck]

not impressed by the demo at all. football this generation has been a huge dissappointment. I'm actually thinking of not gettting a football game at all this year. I'm thinking of picking up NCAA after its patched, right now it looks to glitchy. Madden is very stale, and they just need to start over. Looking forward to fifa 11 for my futbol fix.

[traemyn]

So I have a few complaints that really have made my first few games with the demo not fun at all.

**I am playing on All-Madden as the Colts

1. All-Madden difficulty:
Dropped passes: Dallas Clark and Reggie Wayne are constantly dropping passes put right in their hands. CONSTANTLY.

Peyton's terrible accuracy: Simple slant route to the left across middle, I precision-pass left after the receiver gets past the LB in zone and Peyton throws it wayyyyyy ahead of the receive and its in INT. This happened multiple times during my couple games and Peyton wasn't even under pressure. This is PEYTON MANNING I mean ca-mon have they really just turned All-Madden difficulty into "lets subtract 30 from all ratings"??

2. Announcer keeps saying Garcon is back to receive kickoff.. Oh really?

3. Strategy Pad: Yup it really is kinda annoying.

4. Replays: Bad stuttering in the first few seconds almost every time.

5. In the first two games I got two bad Booth Reviews. One was a TD I threw to Dallas Clark in the back of the end-zone, he got a foot and then the other foot before his knee was out. The reply clearly showed this yet the call was upheld as out of bounds. MEH sometimes the ref's mess this up in real-life so I'll let that go. BUT the next game the Sanchez threw a side-line grab to the TE and he made the side-line animation and BOTH feet were CLEARLY out of bounds, I am talking half the length of his feet. The ref's reviewed and called it a CATCH. Ridiculous.

I hope you guys are having more fun than I. I'm sure I'll buy it even with these problems...

[wrightnreyes]

the only issue with madden 11 is the strategy pad. i got used to it as i played more but it's very annoying. audibles used to be as easy as walking. now it takes forever.

hopefully i'll get used to it but I just wish they would remove it completely. it's pointless.

[DirtyJerz32]

I'm really loving the game so far. Played 3 games and I'm 2 and 1. Love the game flow and gameplan. I like how I can use the plays that I want to with having to go in the entire playbook.

I know it's the demo so I'm not concerned about crowd audio or commentary. I think they put a little in just to show us the example of Gus being in the game. IMO, he puts another level of excitement into a game that was lackluster in that dept for a loooooooooooooong time.

Alot has been said about the strategy pad. I'm not one for doing a lot of moving around. I'll blitz a LB or press every now and again but, I'm not worried about it. On O, after a couple of clicks I knew exactly were everything was. It's not that big of a deal to me. I can see how some would be upset though. It's like when Fight Night went all analog and people wanted the button controls. Hey, whatever, it's not a big deal to me.

Can't wait until the embargo is over so we can get some impressions from the retail copy and see how much different is then the demo.

To anyone on the fence. Don't read impressions. Make up your own mind and go from there. To the people not liking the game, it's the demo. To the people who like it, I'm with you 100%.

Happy gaming.

[fossen]

Quote: Originally Posted by oki4life

liking the demo so far, ya gotta love that its 4th and 3 for the computer as the Jets, and out of nowhere they fake punted. i'm like are you serious!! even in a demo rex ryan has guts.

I was playing as the Jets, it's late game and Colts are trying to burn the clock. It's 4th & 4 ... they line up to try and get the first, Peyton calls a couple of fake snaps ...

... then drops back as they audible to a punt formation and he drops this pooch punt that goes like 30 yards.

I don't know if it's brilliant or idiotic.

[ryan36]

Ok played a game. I have figured out strat pad and on defense too. Love it. Just have to know what u want to do before the play.

Good: I like the locomotion. Run game feels like you have to earn it and sometimes a counter is too easy. Passing seems to work well. Revis had gonzales step for step and was incomplete.

Medium: I think the cpu main ways to stop the pass are an overthrow and sack... May be to easy. On the one play Ive run on d I strat padded right into an int. And got the ball back. Makes me leery of more nanos etc. I'm not someone who tries to find exploits, but I do the simple ones. Shirft dl right, crash right... Stuff like that.

Bad: near as I can tell , play action is very very broken, unless I move my qb out of the pocket with a bigger drop than needed, I can't get time to throw, and thats on all pro no sliders. Also kick returners slide into position. For me that's an oh well... I think the horribly negative impressions here are off base this is game is fun... And I didn't like ncaa lol