Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[ggazoo]

Love Gameflow, and being able to use the headset... pretty ingenious. But compared to NHL 10, this game is c-h-o-p-p-y!

[blackceasar]

So I was playing as the Jets tonight and there was a play where they sent Reggie Wayne to a short post pattern. He caught the ball, made a move upfeild and was met by the safety. He was hit, tackeld, taken down but fumbled the ball in the process. Revis was there to pick up the ball and he ran it into the endzone. Out of my curiosity to see if EA did anything new with the "near the goal line marker" leaps I intentionally made Revis jump into the endzone by the pylon/marker.

Okay here is where it gets really bad and stupid on EA's part. There was a review of the play. The ref goes to the monitor... Jeopardy music plays.... they show about 5 different slow motion angles of Revis' jump into the endzone by the pylon. I'm thinking okay, not bad.. they are looking to see if he went out at the 1 or something vs scoring a TD.... The ref comes back and says the ruling on the field was overturned. I'm thinking ok... Jets ball at the 1 yard line then... NOPE... The Colts get the ball back at the place where Wayne got tackled and fumbled the ball. WTFF???? So the actual challenge visual was of wether or not it was a defensive TD but the shotty Madden programming had the decision to be about wether or not Wayne fumbled the ball.

This is just bad people. Thank god NCAA looks to have some seirous legs this year.

[SXL]

Quote: Originally Posted by blackceasar

So I was playing as the Jets tonight and there was a play where they sent Reggie Wayne to a short post pattern. He caught the ball, made a move upfeild and was met by the safety. He was hit, tackeld, taken down but fumbled the ball in the process. Revis was there to pick up the ball and he ran it into the endzone. Out of my curiosity to see if EA did anything new with the "near the goal line marker" leaps I intentionally made Revis jump into the endzone by the pylon/marker. Okay here is where it gets really bad and stupid on EA's part. There was a review of the play. The ref goes to the monitor... Jeopardy music plays.... they show about 5 different slow motion angles of Revis' jump into the endzone by the pylon. I'm thinking okay, not bad.. they are looking to see if he went out at the 1 or something vs scoring a TD.... The ref comes back and says the ruling on the field was overturned. I'm thinking ok... Jets ball at the 1 yard line then... NOPE... The Colts get the ball back at the place where Wayne got tackled and fumbled the ball. WTFF???? So the actual challenge visual was of wether or not it was a defensive TD but the shotty Madden programming had the decision to be about wether or not Wayne fumbled the ball. This is just bad people. Thank god NCAA looks to have some seirous legs this year.

Could be a Demo bug and it got fixed before it went gold...

[Shakedowncapo]

Has anyone messed with sliders for the demo?

[PGaither84]

Regarding the replay post, it has been in madden for a few years now, and I saw it again tonight... sometimes, if you score a TD but it is ruled incomplete/out of bounds and it goes to the replay and is overturned, you don't get the TD, you get 1st and goal on the one... as though the game thought "X and goal, he got to the goal, so first down... and I guess goal to go." So silly. This happened most often in 09, but I see it pop up from time to time in M10 and once so far in the demo.

[JohnnyPraze]

Quote: Originally Posted by madcowboy

Question? What happened to the Defensive Hot routes that were brought into madden 05, where you could assign corners and safety's individually? For example (PS2) you could press triangle, then the circle (for the reciever he is covering), then down on the right analog stick. That player would be playing bump and run and you could set your other corner to play off by performing up on the analog stick according to who he is covering. You could also shade the reciever's inside as well as outside. Why in the heck did that go away? Its still too much time to select your defensive backfield player before you can hot route him. I dont understand why EA is not building on technology that was present years ago.

They did take it out a few years back, but it has been back in the game the last couple years. Just highlight the player and select hot route.

[bigal093]

im a madden *****. i thought it was much better. but they still didn't fix the QB getting rid of the ball no matter what somehow backwards 6 yards and it someone is an incomplete pass.

[permanent1]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigal093

im a madden *****. i thought it was much better. but they still didn't fix the QB getting rid of the ball no matter what somehow backwards 6 yards and it someone is an incomplete pass.

The QB's are much easier to sack this year than last year,they hold onto the ball much longer now unless you are playing on all madden then everything goes out the window.