Madden NFL 25 Trailer - Run Free

[cgalligan]

Are we playing NFL Street? Or is this a game that is trying to replicate and simulate "NFL FOOTBALL" ???

My favorite part of the video, is the part when Calvin Johnson leaps over a defender and then, immediately after, he somehow still has the momentum, strength and speed to totally TRUCK another defender...

I'm fine with him leaping a guy, but, there is no way he'd have enough momentum left to be able to truck a defender coming in for a clean shot at him... Even if it is Calvin Johnson, that seems a bit ridiculous and very "Madden" of them...

[Eman5805]

Quote: Originally Posted by ch46647

Look at how much smoother that gameplay is!! That is really something... I loved Madden on PS2. I just wish EA would come out and tell us what the he** went wrong with the gameplay and animation engine this generation. (Along with many other aspects)

That should be EA's goal next go around. Make it more like the PS2/Xbox generation. Players looked like they had weight to their running.

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Eman5805

That should be EA's goal next go around. Make it more like the PS2/Xbox generation. Players looked like they had weight to their running.

Please, no. Just no...

[roadman]

LT:

Welcome back to your annual pilgrimage.lol

I take it you didn't like precision passing last year?

Actually, didn't appreciate 13 much and didn't like the trailers put out so far, but I'm cautiously optimistic with the articles I've read so far.

We'll see.

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by Only1LT

Now what in the wild wild west makes you think that next gen Madden will run on Frostbite lol??????.... ....You might as well change your sig now.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...nch-title.html

As well change your sig now you might.[In Yoda voice]

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

LT: Welcome back to your annual pilgrimage.lol I take it you didn't like precision passing last year? Actually, didn't appreciate 13 much and didn't like the trailers put out so far, but I'm cautiously optimistic with the articles I've read so far. We'll see.

What's up Road.

Yeah nothing gets my Tiburon ire up more than draft time and the inevitable explosion of Madden info lol.

Did I like Precision Passing? I didn't dislike it. I liked the intent. It isn't what I thought Madden needed to really improve, but I could say that for any addition that's been made over the last decade or so. The main problem I had was that for all the new trajectories and for all the added precision, the AI was still the ultimate judge of the outcome of a play, and no matter what I did with the sticks or the button presses, balls would still be defended or intercepted by defenders trailing receivers, due to balls, some freaking how, not being thrown to lead receivers enough. Essentially, the AI still made happen what ever it wanted to have happen. In short, it was more duct tape.

I liked 13 when I first put it in, but after a short while, the infatuation wore off. I've had the game since launch and still have it to this day, but I've played only 3 Play Now games, and didn't even finish one of them, never played a single online game, and didn't even spend a ton of time in Practice Mode, which is very atypical for me.

It was an OK game, but when things that happened 10 years ago ago are still happening, and having to be subjected to those God awful animations, I just couldn't put myself through it. $60 be damned.

Without a complete overhaul of the animation tech, I don't think there is anything that they can do to get me excited about this game, on any gen. No matter what uber realistic sim feature they might possibly add, the immersion will be instantly broken as soon as the players start moving.

The player models don't do immersion any favors either.

[Only1LT]

Quote: Originally Posted by Big FN Deal

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...nch-title.html As well change your sig now you might.[In Yoda voice]

"Pretty thin, Riggs. Pretty thin." (Danny Glover voice lol)

Saying that there are other EA titles that are using Frostbite does not mean Madden will.

I can guarantee one of two things:

1- Next gen Madden will not be powered by Frostbite if Tiburon is developing it or

2- If by some miracle it is powered by Frostbite, it will not resemble all the good-ities and nice-ities that you have come to associate with Frostbite, based on Battlefield.

There are a billion games that use Unreal and they are NOT all created equal. I can assure you, it is possible to make a bad game using Frostbite. Many Battlefield 2 vets would tell you that one already has lol.

[Big FN Deal]

Quote: Originally Posted by Only1LT

"Pretty thin, Riggs. Pretty thin." (Danny Glover voice lol) Saying that there are other EA titles that are using Frostbite does not mean Madden will. I can guarantee one of two things: 1- Next gen Madden will not be powered by Frostbite if Tiburon is developing it or 2- If by some miracle it is powered by Frostbite, it will not resemble all the good-ities and nice-ities that you have come to associate with Frostbite, based on Battlefield. There are a billion games that use Unreal and they are NOT all created equal. I can assure you, it is possible to make a bad game using Frostbite. Many Battlefield 2 vets would tell you that one already has lol.

Well unless you think that guy from EA is just flat out lying about EA focusing on only 10-15 games for new consoles, the announcement that they are developing 15 games with Frostbite and question that Madden is one of those 15 games slated for new consoles, that "miracle" is going to happen.

Again, I agree that a new engine does not equate to a solid football game but I think it does equate to not carrying over the unrealistic movement of the animations from this console gen. Not when you have a EA Football GM from EA Canada, a CD from MLB The Show and tones of shared tech from more fluid movement games like BF and FIFA. We shall see shortly.