Madden NFL 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Feldman011teen]

I don't know if its just me, but i played on all pro, and Nicks burns Rogers every time. Even if i focus on Nicks.

[DorianDonP]

Demo plays pretty much how I expected after watching the preview vids.

The tackling looks pretty awkward. It plays like the same ole Madden in a lot of ways, until the ragdoll 'infinity engine physics' play out.

Gotta say, the presentation/crowd noise is def improved. In fact, I'd say the presentation is extremely top notch this year.

Passing is good as well, just like in NCAA 13.

Overall, it's still a bit meh. With Franchise being closed, I just don't know if it's worth the purchase this year.

[CRMosier_LM]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyrant8RDFL

CRMosier it has been stated all over this thread what we feel is bad about this Infinity engine. Please forgive me but I'm not going to re-write the problems with the IE. Where there are moments that it does something nice, the majority of the time the engine has the game looking very sloppy and clumsy. This is how I see it and if you dont see it that way, it's cool. I repspect your joy.

Ok I was trying to figure out how it "doesn't work"... Thought maybe you downloaded a bad demo or something. To each their own... To many it is by FAR better than any physics ever in a football game...as many have already stated in here. Yes it has issues but those are the same issues other games had and never fixed, plus there is no run up the middle and get touched, fall over...play over like others had and never were able to solve.

All in all my only real negative is its too easy to pass vs cpu. Very easy actually but then again as long as it plays good head to head (which it did at EA) then I'm happy.

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[CRMosier_LM]

Quote: Originally Posted by CT Pittbull

the ONLY bad part about this demo and madden 13 overall is the fact that i will NEVER play NCAA football 13 ever again ...i had a feeling when i preordered it that i was wasting 45 dollars but i needed a "new" football fix....oh well it gets traded in for either nba2k13 or COD Black Ops 2....lol

Lol I'm trying to not compare the 2... I'm in the middle if an awesome online dynasty.


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[beaware]

A no buy for me. I see the same problems as always when you play on the higher difficulty rating. I was playing on All-Pro and little thing like Bradshaw pushing Patrick Willis off with one hand when I have him wrapped up is annoying. Sorry guys but this is not real physics.

[JODYE]

I hate when I see "If you're a Madden fan, you'll love this game".

What does that even mean? What does being a Madden fan entail?

Does it include loving shoddy graphics and arcade style gameplay? Because that's pretty much what Madden has been for the past 7 years, and this game is no different. This isn't football. Someone else said it best, this is NFL Jam.

I went back to play again today, just to see if I was a little brash in my first assessment, but I wasn't. In fact this one was worse.

There are so many points to touch on that are wrong, I don't even know where to begin. The thing that really does it for me, is the tackling and player animation/movements. Just absolutely horrible. 7 years later on next gen and players are still ice skating all over the field, and still have D Tackles out running RBs and WRs from behind. Just ridiculous. The AI logic is atrocious. Watching them call plays just leaves you scratching your head.

The slider thing always cracks me up. Like "OH, It's ok, just change every slider to balance all the crap and you'll be good"

What happened to developers producing a quality product out of the box? I shouldn't have to adjust every slider in the game known to man to find a desired result, that ends up, still pretty poor, when you really get down to it.

I know I've seen the don't mention 2k5 comment in this thread, but honestly, doesn't it speak volumes, that 7 years removed, and that game can still be even compared? We're about to be 2 generations removed from that game, and still there hasn't been a replication of the quality of football that game provided. Pretty sad.

More sad for us sim football fans, that have had to put up with this product year after year. Another year of EA not getting my money.

[Cheetah Bird]

I hate the PAT angle. It looks the most cartoonish. I wish they'd lower it behind the kicker's back or maybe even have the camera looking out from BEHIND the uprights. FG angles I don't have a problem with. On PAT's it just makes the crowd look so lame from that high up angle. It's been in the game a while now.

I just made a tackle on Leon Washington, my defender did like a jump forward,floated in air, performed a horse collar like tackle, but then he did like a fly back and Leon slammed back in to the dirt like Edge the wrestler's finishing move... The defender flew back afterwards again and did some belly flop thing. It's laughable.

Some of these tackles are starting to look like WWF moves.

[TreyIM2]

I would love to know how many ppl posting up here were praising Backbreaker to the high heavens for their Euphoria engine which is the same as IE and had the same lil weird moments with it yet tearing down EA's RTP as if it is garbage? I just wonder and, anyone who may read this and are doing that, look at yourselves. Lots of bias there to be seen, no doubt

That being said, I really don't want to get into a breakdown of the pros and cons of this demo because, basically, it's just a demo and EA is good for tightening, adding, and worsening and removing things in their demos, all the time but I am hoping that they've worked on the limbs part of tech, focusing on arms. Cats are not wrapping when they should nor do they try to brace themselves if they happen to go down when they may have time to. I really hope to see that in the retail version but if it's not there this year, I DON'T CARE! This is good stuff and I see improvement on it coming over the years.