Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[GiantBlue76]

Quote: Originally Posted by RaiderKtulu

Yeah... locomotion is a step in the right direction, but I'm not about to praise them for finally doing something that another game did better 6 years ago. That's really why there's so much negativity towards this game in the first place. On it's own, it's a pretty good game. I mean, if Madden is the only football game you've played for the past decade, this year is going to be another improvement and all is well. Unfortunately, if you played 2k5, Backbreaker, or Head Coach (seriously why the heck isn't this game merged with Madden's franchise mode?) then it's incredibly frustrating to see Madden still lagging behind in certain areas.

Could not have said that better myself. My sentiments exactly.

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by rgiles36

Yeah fight for the fumble is still there. Continue playing the demo, you'll see it. I don't hate it myself; I just opt to turn off the button mashing of it. Oh, but I wasn't saying you were praising NCAA as the holy grail LOL. I was just pointing out that people here (at this point) seem to like NCAA's locomotion a lot more than Madden's b/c it's more loose. I didn't think that would be the case at OS. I thought people would like Madden's more like you and I do. I think that illustrates why Madden will never imitate that APF2K8-ish locomotion. Most people won't have fun with it.

Ah, ok. Now I got you. Maybe that is it. I said before when I was giving my impression that I couldn't understand why people loved NCAA's and hated Madden's. They are pretty much the same other than the fact that, as I mentioned, changing direction has more of a penalty on Madden than on NCAA. To me that's a good thing.

I liked the way 2K handled change of direction. It was tied into how far off center you moved the stick. If you didn't want to be severely slowed down when changing direction, then it was in your best interest to gently and slowly go from left to right. If you went from all the way left to all the way right too quickly, then you would basically just stop. This is control scheme mimics real life and I wish they used this in Madden. I thought that they were going to when I heard they added analog control, but alas, they didn't.

I don't know. I really value realism. Like I said, to me realism equates to fun. I don't mind being punished for doing something that isn't humanly possible. Punish me baby lol.

[popo324]

Best madden I've played so far

[RavensALLDAY/Niners]

The cpu breaks way to many tackles..but overall the game is decent and a little improved from last year

[sanders]

I've been playing NCAA non-stop since it came out.

First thing I noticed witht the Madden Demo is that the camera seemed to be higher and looknig down more. Felt off. In NCAA you see it some but its not bad but in Madden its like any defender in 5 yards of a tackle falls down. It's pretty aweful. I played a game of the demo until the 4th quarter and immediately put in NCAA. I don't watch college football or have ever owned NCAA in the past but the game just plays fun football.

I went from definitely picking up Madden because NCAA was so good and now after playing the demo I'm back to not buying Madden. Just seems like at least a step down from the game I already have.

[JayInSaratoga]

I finally had a chance to play a game on the demo last night and I didn't find the strategy pad to be as big a problem as others did. I only really had one issue, and it's regarding game flow. While I really enjoy the game flow feature and am looking forward to putting together game plans in my franchise, I don't like that the only way you can see the play art is by viewing it on the field after you committed to using the game flow selected play.

Being colorblind and the game using what I believe is a shade or orange/red to show pass rush angles on defensive plays make it very tough to see who is rushing the passer on defense. One advantage to choosing plays from a list is that they are displayed in those little boxes where the color of the lines stand out very well from background of the diagram.

[Danimal]

Anymore console BS from anyone is going to lead to your exit.

[speels]

Played my second game last night and really only have one issue, which can probably be solved if I play the game more, but on every 3rd down, or any play for that matter, that the CPU ran a cross through the middle, they always, always made a completion. Then I would run the same plays and their DB actually made it to the spot of the throw before my player did. I tried Man and zone d-fence to stop this but it didn't seem to matter.

Other than that, which was quite upsetting as they had a drive of 5:58 with 16 plays that went 4/5 on third down conversions, I think Madden looks like it could get a lot of playing time this year.