Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[Billy34]

if someone actually plays another human in the same room, with gameflow,,, won't the other person see/hear the other players play onscreen??

[rhesuspieces]

I was up 28-14. Difficulty was All-pro

[SA1NT401]

Fooled around with the sliders while it was quiet at work,.....Set it to PRO and put the slider heavily in favor of the CPU...made some tweaks to the CPU running and CPu pass coverage...

Looks like, IF the gameplay pans out and franchise in NOT a glitch/Bug/Sim stat mess, i will be going with PRO for the most realistic games (like Varsity in NCAA).

Since i cant fiddle with User setting in the DEMO, I figured i would Beef up the CPU...Played Like Heisman without the BS....D was tough but realistic.

If the community feedback and franchise at least functions realistic, I will be doing the PRO setting thing.

For those with issues gameplay wise, mess with some sliders..They work.

S-Pad still sucks in just about every single possible way though and the BIG head player models are just not good. Other than that....Passable at this point. But it is a .5 version IMHO.....I have accepted that fact after 21 games with the DEMO. Commentary is getting muted, i find it insanely annoying honestly....Hope the sound options work like NCAA where i turn everything down except the Crowd and PA announcer....Set field volume to 20.

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by PGaither84

Seriously?!? Exceptional?!? In the very short time the game has been out and the video that are already showing up on Youtube of game play that I have already experienced, and I know you must have [because we are all playing the same demo] you call the game play exceptional?!? Are you not paying much attention to what is going out on the field? that has to be it. I just can't understand how you can possibly call the game play exceptional.

Ummmm...lets see. I find the gameplay to be exceptional, thats why I used that adjective to describe my opinion of the gameplay.

Disagree? Cool...but please don't ever call into question my opinion simply because you disagree with it, especially in the manner where you are dumbing it down.

Take care.

[djphleks]

Quote: Originally Posted by ryan36

I don't think NFL defenses make more than 2 or 3 adjustments per play...I also don't think that I play in the NFL ... I think it just means you have to call better D. I wish they'd have tiered defensive play-calling...tell your guys in the box to do one thing, and the secondary to do another...I'd like that a lot

Oh boy the call a better D excuse. I agree defenses may not make more that 2 to 3 adjustments per play. but this is a video game. So lets say your opponent likes to run a toss play. You see the formation and you call your appropriate play. You see the formation on the field and now you want to move your d-line, crash the line, and move the linebackers. Same defensive play just making adjustments. I would like to see somebody get these 3 simple adjustments on the S-pad before the ball is snapped. Calling better D has nothing to do with it.

The defensive adjustments are tiered, its just that using the d-pad for these adjustments is inefficient.

[MaddenEman]

You guys should really spend the time you complain about strategy pad time trying to get used to the Strategy Pad, Then you'd probably have it figured out by now.

[ryan36]

Quote: Originally Posted by djphleks

Oh boy the call a better D excuse. I agree defenses may not make more that 2 to 3 adjustments per play. but this is a video game. So lets say your opponent likes to run a toss play. You see the formation and you call your appropriate play. You see the formation on the field and now you want to move your d-line, crash the line, and move the linebackers. Same defensive play just making adjustments. I would like to see somebody get these 3 simple adjustments on the S-pad before the ball is snapped. Calling better D has nothing to do with it. The defensive adjustments are tiered, its just that using the d-pad for these adjustments is inefficient.

Actually, that's EXACTLY what I do. I was doing it all last night, but I'm on ps3. So if you had a 360 and it's less responsive then yeah, I'd be frustrated too. But those are indeed the exact adjustments I make to stop outside runs.

[wangtangkiki]

Quote: Originally Posted by Palo20

In real life they have a lot more defensive plays to choose from. I can't pick a Cover 2 with the line slanting right, I HAVE to change it at the line. If I want a creative zone blitz, or want to cancel a stunt and re-route the DE to a straight rush I HAVE to do it at the line. If we had better defensive playbooks, we wouldn't have to make so many changes at the line.

This is correct.