Madden NFL 10 Blog: Blocking Improvements Part 2 - The Run Game

[Ian_Cummings]

Early surprise this Memorial Day! Check out the new Madden NFL 10 blog. This one covers blocking improvements in the running game.

Quote:

"2 weeks back we took a look at some of the improvements we made to our pass blocking in order to make the game more realistic (and fun) overall. I encourage everyone to take a look at it here. This week I wanted to give everyone a deeper look at some of the improvements to run blocking as well. Run blocking is one of the trickiest areas to program and tune just because of the amount of variation that happens in the NFL. Pass blocking is definitely complicated as well, but at some level you’ve got some pretty common concepts that you can follow (i.e. the OL needs to stay between the defender and the QB, the defensive end needs to get up field if he’s not stunting, etc). With run blocking however, there are just so many variations of plays that it can take much more time to get every single concept down pat while still making it a) realistic, b) responsive, and c) fun. At the beginning of the year, when we sat down as a group and looked at some of the areas we wanted to address, we all unanimously agreed that there were a few major areas that we just hadn’t quite emulated as well as we would like to create an authentic NFL sim."

[shotgun styles]

cool...

Please address the flak jacket issue.

Thanks...

[MrSkagTrendy]

Nice work Mr Romo, congrats on what promises to be a great game..all the way from the uk

[BlackJack_Williams]

Thanks dude. Enjoy the rest of your day man

[Da Bears]

Thanks my friend.

[APBamaMan]

Good stuff

[MrSkagTrendy]

Wow.
This is some seriously good work.

[-DaVe-]

Man, the running still looks weird to me . Doesn't look Natural at all.
On that outside run the the runningback didnt even brace himself for the hit.