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

[BigD]

Love the field degradation. Lambeau was a mess after the 4th. It's very similar to NCAA's degradation, but a lot more divots and tears. Very nicely done.

Cut scenes are decent but totally not digging the coach cuts scenes where they are the only person in the picture, zero background images of players or anything behind them. I guess they're off alone, by themselves somewhere?

Hate the new camera angle as others do to, wayy to far back, at least for me.

The sideline reporter after the half is nice, she talked about coach wanting to make adjustments and whatnot. Hopefully these are varied and stay relevant. It's also nice to see real clips of plays for the half, other than those stupid canned-cut scenes of players flexing their bicep over and over.

End of the game features a play of the game which is nice.

Other than that, feels exactly like '13. Will not pick this up but will without a doubt get the nex-gen version.

[friscob]

They made Russ Wilson's skin color way too dark. Also, what is up with the neck/shoulders of player models and coaches? They all look like they have humpbacks or something lol

[blinkfan77]

Why the **** is Russel Wilson black?

Edit- Wow unintended back to back posts about Wilson's skin lol

[trey2k198003]

so my impressions loved the run modifiers i love to run the ball so im a little biased, the engine feels great and the presentation is pretty good even the close ups which are close but i dont mind them its something new there trying. I like gameplay i ran a dive with lynch and got to the second level used the modifier to bounce it outside without geting tripped up or grabbed like in m13. I didnt pass very much due to having to go to work and really wanted to check out run free!

Honestly not bad after playing im still excited to play next friday! cant wait to see owner mode should be a fun game.

[BTownSlinger]

I don't have a LIVE sub, when will the demo be available to me?

[kingsofthevalley]

Its cool. I dont really have anything specific to say about it that I haven't touched on already with NCAA 14 (they've always been damn near the same game imo). I do wish the NCAA devs would make the player models as crisp and clean as the Madden player models.

[jpdavis82]

Quote: Originally Posted by theranhog

JP, Did you like Madden 10?? I thought that one was by far the best of the gen. What did you think of 11? that was the worst to me.

Yes 10 was one of the best on this gen. 11 was my least favorite. I actually liked 13, but this is a much cleaner infinity engine than 13 had.

[friscob]

Very raw first impressions:

- Game feels much smoother than M13 and even NCAA 14
- So glad there's a fumble slider b/c lack of fumbles in NCAA were killing me
- Default camera angle is horrible. Does anyone actually enjoy this??
- CPU is terrible at stopping option plays, feels like I'm cheating when I run them
- Run blocking seems overpowered but could get better w/ slider adjustments
- Pass coverage looks very weak just like NCAA

Game looks like it will definitely be an upgrade over M13 but that's not saying much since that game was a complete disaster.