Madden NFL 25 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360, PS3)

[The JareBear]

I am trying not to drop the "its just a demo, wait till game, its just the ga,e wait till patch, its just a patch, wait still second patch" routine. I am not impressed with the demo. I felt Madden 12 and Madden 13 had cleaner gameplay than NCAA 12 and NCAA 13. Not seeing that here.

My biggest gripe isn't the run blocking, because I fully expected that. I assume they just copy and pasted coding from NCAA on that one. My grippest gripe is with the coverage. I don't understand why coverage has taken so many steps back. NCAA 12 had awesome zone coverage out the box and I guess guys must have complained about that or something because now only a couple zone coverages are ever a viable option. They need to bring DEFENSE back into these games, especially Madden.

I've always had more faith in the Madden team than NCAA, to be honest, so I have to hope that a number of issues were fixed. I don't want to start another "THE GCs FAILED US" conversation but, man, I just don't know how guys are playing this and telling the public good things. What I am playing right now is not "sim" in the least bit....

Of course I am still buying day one, I just hope they changed a heck of a lot in retail...

[Rdogg1026]

Quote: Originally Posted by The JareBear

I am trying not to drop the "its just a demo, wait till game, its just the ga,e wait till patch, its just a patch, wait still second patch" routine. I am not impressed with the demo. I felt Madden 12 and Madden 13 had cleaner gameplay than NCAA 12 and NCAA 13. Not seeing that here. My biggest gripe isn't the run blocking, because I fully expected that. I assume they just copy and pasted coding from NCAA on that one. My grippest gripe is with the coverage. I don't understand why coverage has taken so many steps back. NCAA 12 had awesome zone coverage out the box and I guess guys must have complained about that or something because now only a couple zone coverages are ever a viable option. They need to bring DEFENSE back into these games, especially Madden. I've always had more faith in the Madden team than NCAA, to be honest, so I have to hope that a number of issues were fixed. I don't want to start another "THE GCs FAILED US" conversation but, man, I just don't know how guys are playing this and telling the public good things. What I am playing right now is not "sim" in the least bit.... Of course I am still buying day one, I just hope they changed a heck of a lot in retail...

And that's all EA cares about...

[Getweberd]

Hm, guess I'm in the minority here but I'm certainly enjoying it. It's not perfect, that's for sure, but I think this is probably one build prior to release. Run blocking is pretty good as far as linemen go, but I definitely had a couple of the Packers LBs get through when I ran a stretch play. Haven't had any of the weird injury issues come up that a couple others posted.

[bowld]

Looks like the presnap camera got pulled too far back. Maybe they did this on purpose so the close-up view of the next gen camera will stand out even more?

[K33057]

How about the OL Blocking? Is there sometimes 2 olinemen on 1 Dlinemen sometimes like in real life?? OR is it 1 on 1 like always..
AND how about the DB's -they cover real or is the wr's making supercatches like always???

[Malcd9583]

Is there cornerback assignments in the game again? Like can I put revis island on megaton all game again or did they leave that out again?

[wordtobigbird]

Just wanted to confirm that the skills trainer is broken. They do not get you the prompts/tutorial I have seen in youtube videos. So you can do whatever move to to the endzone but you will fail. I randomly passed 2 out of 4. It is suppose to say, Do a stiffarm. You do a stiffarm. Pass.

Moving on to a game now.

[R9NALD9]

Can anyone please put me out of my misery and let us know whether assisted tackles work this year?