Madden NFL 11 News Post

Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

12:10 PM - April 22, 2010 by Steve_OS

For those that like to skip over the Madden NFL 11 press release, here is something worth noting.

Madden NFL 11 will redefine videogame football for both veteran and rookie players by providing a Simpler, Quicker and Deeper experience:

Simpler: Call plays like an NFL coach with ease using an all-new play-calling system, GameFlow, which executes an authentic, situational game plan for you.
Quicker: The new play-calling system will enable players to spend more time on the field and less in the playbook - completing games in half of the time.
Deeper: Madden NFL 11 is feature-rich, with improved animations and control options, enhanced online functionality, and new broadcast and audio presentation that delivers the NFL experience fans have come to expect.

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# 101 Jukeman @ 04/24/10 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by thedude213


	Well if I'm understanding the Game Flow feature correctly, instead of going to a play call menu and selecting a play, the game just chooses a play for you depending on the situation, correct? Now sure I can see this feature being good for people who know nothing about football, like little kids who don't understand how to pick the right play. But people who have been playing football games for a while know which plays to select in situations (3rd and long, 2 and short, etc), so what is the point in having the game do it for you. Just my opinion, but it definitely looks just like another gimmick to hype up this game, instead of focusing their attention on things that matter (AI, gameplay, animations, etc).

It pick plays team actually runs in that situation during real life games..

Its not a training wheel...

If the Eagles run a screen on 3rd and 1 alot in real life, my brain tells me game flow isnt going to suggest FB dive(a typical play you'd run in that situation)

its gonna give you a screen to run....

people are reading into things too much...

Heh I'd bet if the Eagles threw hail mary's on 3rd and 1 it would suggest a hail mary, not a qb draw...

If you wanna play just like your fav football team, use it...If not, dont...

no gimmick in my eyes..

# 102 denverbro89 @ 04/24/10 05:32 PM

does this mean RFA and UFA, tendering players, more than 10 draft picks , smarter franchise AI and CPU trades?

# 103 roadman @ 04/24/10 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by thedude213


	Well if I'm understanding the Game Flow feature correctly, instead of going to a play call menu and selecting a play, the game just chooses a play for you depending on the situation, correct? Now sure I can see this feature being good for people who know nothing about football, like little kids who don't understand how to pick the right play. But people who have been playing football games for a while know which plays to select in situations (3rd and long, 2 and short, etc), so what is the point in having the game do it for you. Just my opinion, but it definitely looks just like another gimmick to hype up this game, instead of focusing their attention on things that matter (AI, gameplay, animations, etc).

I see what you are saying, but I saw in the Brees interview that the Madden team has studied the tendencies of each team on what they call on certain down and distances. Brees said it doesn't get any more real than that.

All boils down to preference. It's an option, don't like, don't use it.

Also, veterans of football and Madden who attended CD, also like this feature, so, I don't see where you can speculate that only little kiddies would like this feature.

A bit premature if you ask me.

Edit-- Thank you, Jukman. Very simple explanation, I agree with everything you said.

# 104 thedude213 @ 04/24/10 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jukeman


	It pick plays team actually runs in that situation during real life games.. Its not a training wheel... If the Eagles run a screen on 3rd and 1 alot in real life, my brain tells me game flow isnt going to suggest FB dive(a typical play you'd run in that situation) its gonna give you a screen to run.... people are reading into things too much... Heh I'd bet if the Eagles threw hail mary's on 3rd and 1 it would suggest a hail mary, not a qb draw... If you wanna play just like your fav football team, use it...If not, dont... no gimmick in my eyes..

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Originally Posted by roadman


	I see what you are saying, but I saw in the Brees interview that the Madden team has studied the tendencies of each team on what they call on certain down and distances. Brees said it doesn't get any more real than that. All boils down to preference. It's an option, don't like, don't use it. Also, veterans of football and Madden who attended CD, also like this feature, so, I don't see where you can speculate that only little kiddies would like this feature. A bit premature if you ask me. Edit-- Thank you, Jukman. Very simple explanation, I agree with everything you said.

To me this feature just looks like Ask Madden without the menu popping up. I have enough football knowledge to know what plays to run in certain situations and I'm sure almost all of the people on this forum are at the same place. This feature just doesn't seem useful, unless you didn't have this football knowledge.

I understand that it allows you to play more like the real team, but it just doesn't seem that important in my eyes when they could be spending their resources fixing the numerous problems that we have had the year in and year out.

For me, it's tough to appreciate the devs creating new features when they haven't even gotten the basics right.

# 105 Valdarez @ 04/24/10 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Phixius


	Ian Cummings also said that EA has put over 10,000 animations for a Madden game 4 years ago and yet we're left with watching the same animations maybe 10-20 times a game.

Really, 10,000 animations? That's amazing. Are you sure about that number?

# 106 roadman @ 04/24/10 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by thedude213


	To me this feature just looks like Ask Madden without the menu popping up. I have enough football knowledge to know what plays to run in certain situations and I'm sure almost all of the people on this forum are at the same place. This feature just doesn't seem useful, unless you didn't have this football knowledge. I understand that it allows you to play more like the real team, but it just doesn't seem that important in my eyes when they could be spending their resources fixing the numerous problems that we have had the year in and year out. For me, it's tough to appreciate the devs creating new features when they haven't even gotten the basics right.

So, then it's back to ripping out the old code of locomotion and putting in new code for locomotion.

Isn't that one of the numerous problems that we've had year in and year out? People all over Youtube complaining about tron jogging. They worked on fixing that this year.

All I'm saying is wait to you see and feel it before judging something we have little information on.

I'm going off information from people that have had on hands experience with it and they play the game like me, calling my own plays knowing the situation.

# 107 Jukeman @ 04/24/10 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by thedude213


	To me this feature just looks like Ask Madden without the menu popping up. I have enough football knowledge to know what plays to run in certain situations and I'm sure almost all of the people on this forum are at the same place. This feature just doesn't seem useful, unless you didn't have this football knowledge. I understand that it allows you to play more like the real team, but it just doesn't seem that important in my eyes when they could be spending their resources fixing the numerous problems that we have had the year in and year out. For me, it's tough to appreciate the devs creating new features when they haven't even gotten the basics right.

The MAIN point of this feature is that it HELPS GAMEPLAY....The CPU will actually play like an actual NFL team now....CPU playcalling was terrible last year and it was a top 5 problem in Madden 10...

We as the user DO NOT have to use it but Its there as an option...

Now I could be wrong...But it only makes sense...

Are you skeptical about people using it online? what are your beefs with it?

ask yourself this...

Would you rather play against a kid who's running nothing but fly patterns against you online, or would you rather have a NFL game played against you online???

I dont see a negative about this "feature"

# 108 BDawg35 @ 04/24/10 11:36 PM

You'd think if there was a mechanism to calls play quicker than you'd actually spend MORE time in the game, because you'd be able to get off more plays, some of which will stop the clock. Also wondering about the improved online functionality, if it's just a catch phrase they always use or if there's some real teeth behind it.

# 109 Bash @ 04/25/10 05:28 AM

Man I really hope they fix the stupid broken spiking the ball play. The QB doesn't even rush over to the line of scrimmage when you press the rush button, it just walks over causally and when it actually gets there it takes like another 3-5 sec to actually spike the ball.

# 110 Bash @ 04/25/10 05:34 AM

1 more thing, I really hope they have native 1080p output this year. I'm pissed off at my monitor (Dell S2409w) stretching the picture and making it look like crap.

# 111 rudygay @ 04/25/10 08:25 AM

I see all the trailers and videos from NCAA and Madden 11 and see no
different Tackling animations from Madden 10

Is not that COOOL?

Shame on you EA Tiburon for making another crap and boring game

# 112 BlueNGold @ 04/26/10 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by rodriggo


	Gimmicks and catch-phrases are completely and utterly useless. Who are you selling the game to? The audience has been with you for 20 years, you don't have to sell this ** to us, we know when it's coming out, we're on OS checking for updates on *** facemask types and Super Bowl jersey patches for * sake. Play calling?!?! That's they're big change.....ugh. Just make a fun game that doesn't make me feel like a piece of for playing it. Take two years if you must but give me a decent game once and for all. Swallow your pride, fire up some older games that did things better than you and learn what fun, engrossing and replayable is. Oh and put in some *********** Stadium Music.

Ok, deep breathes now....

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