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

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by howboutdat

GREAT NEWS!!!! ps3 peps will only have to wait until 9 pm eastern tonight to FINALLY get to start downloading the 2GB demo!!!! sweeeetttttt!!!!!! here is the twitter post by ea about it "@EAMaddenNFL 13m For all of you asking, the #Madden25 Demo will be available for PS3 in North America today by 6:00PM PDT & in the EU on 8/14 by 6:00 BST." ahhh aint it grand....

That's just a catch-all time that they're confident it will be up by, but the update often happens much earlier in the afternoon.

Going to start refreshing the store and using the search at around 3 Central, for this and DuckTales.

[Pcobb864]

Quote: Originally Posted by BTownSlinger

You've been waiting nine hours messing with this guy?!

Ya I have been good thing I got breaking bad to catch up on. I just hate people that glitch and i do not want to give him a win. I am close to top 100 so don't want a loss that should be a win.

[howboutdat]

Quote: Originally Posted by SmashMan

Oh well. Would I (as a PS3 user) prefer things earlier? Sure, but this is the way Sony releases content. If you're not used to it by now, there's not much else to say.

i understand they do it later in the day , but not at friggin 9pm at night. i had figured 5 or 6 eastern at the latest. not 9 eastern.... just a huge let down

[jimmyy201]

Injury, fumble, injury, fumble, injury, injury, fumble, injury, injury, fumble, injury.

Other then that I feel like the game plays amazing compared to past Maddens, and NCAAs.

[GisherJohn24]

I played over my lunch. SF VS Ravens. I'm happy with what I played. Game felt better than 13, felt polished and not sure what the guy saying the graphics are bad and mentioning jaggies is all about, I thought it looked awesome on my TV. Faces look good through the helmets, good enough for my tastes. Kaepernick looks like, well Kaepernick. I recognized him instantly. I think the naysayers are not playing the right game, or just have something against madden.

Anyway. Saw some very nice animations and tackles throughout the game. I injured flacco on a play, his arm went down awkward and he was taken out of the game. Nice added touches like that adds to the realism. Nice sideline catches where the receiver trys to stay in bounds, all looks very nice. No hiccups between plays, there was always this weird pause with Madden, but I no longer see that. Graphics look nice. Uniforms, fields, stadiums, sideline action, definitely the most animated Madden I've seen. I will be happy to be getting this in a few weeks.

+ Good looking graphics, clean easy to read stat screens, player models, grass, sideline action etc
+ Very good animations, not as loopy and absurd as we saw in 13. Toned down to make it look much more realistic
+ Running feels wonderful
+ Passing is good for me
+ Good commentary.

- Few clippy animations here and there, but nothing to the point of calling it out.

Truly not anything that stood out for me that is worthy of a major complaint.

[friscob]

Rodgers got injured during a read option play. Not sure Packers ever run the R/O but I enjoyed seeing him get injured when he took a big hit. At least there's some consequences for using the R/O

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by friscob

Rodgers got injured during a read option play. Not sure Packers ever run the R/O but I enjoyed seeing him get injured when he took a big hit. At least there's some consequences for using the R/O

There's only a very select few QB's in the league that should be running options, and Rodgers is NOT one of them. If QB's ran the option like Kaepernick does, they'd be injured after the first week, or quarter for that matter.

[azdawgpound]

Quote: Originally Posted by howboutdat

i understand they do it later in the day , but not at friggin 9pm at night. i had figured 5 or 6 eastern at the latest. not 9 eastern.... just a huge let down

its 6pm eastern 3 pm on west coast so i'll start to d/l it after 3 since im on west coast... 2 gb's shouldn't take that long I just d/led battlefield 3 and it was 2 gb's and that only took like 30 minutes to d/l.