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Madden NFL 11 Hands-On Impressions (Kotaku)

10:03 AM - April 26, 2010 by Steve_OS

Kotaku has posted their hands-on impressions of Madden NFL 11.

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	"If you'd like to play video game football but you stink at it, don't worry. The next Madden will put a voice in your ear, telling you how to excel. Kotaku recently had the opportunity to try the "Gameflow" feature of this summer's Madden NFL 11. It is the latest tool concocted by the Madden makers at Electronic Arts to make the game more accessible to those who have not kept up with the series' 20-some iterations. It's something the series has needed, given stagnating sales and, from what EA says, a growing crowd of both lapsed Madden gamers and those, like the author of this post, who just can't seem to get into the game because they can't get good at it. The Gameflow feature in Madden NFL 10 is optional and is overlaid atop the standard football games that anyone will play off of EA's disc. It's not a special mode of football. It's an aid for playing classic video game football. With Gameflow activated, the feature picks football plays for the Madden gamer at every moment where a play is necessary � be it offense, defense, the time when you need to punt, go for fourth down or prepare for a blitz. The feature tells you which play you will do next � out loud � if you have a headset plugged in, and even sketches the play and highlights the best way to execute it in red, so that you can never be an awful Madden player again."

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# 41 TombSong @ 04/27/10 02:56 AM

I am kinda surprised by the reactions to the game flow feature.

One of the most frustrating things about any sports game is playing a AI or person that cheats/abuses a game play element. In football games users mainly abuse bad AI and game functions and that mainly through the play calling and player controls.

20 years of this has brought us to the Madden world we have today. A handful of guys that have learned the game so well they play for money and act like morons on TV and are glorified for it.(...not all of them act like morons)

We then have the guys who know more than the average user who are savvy enough to not have to rely on exploits to be competitive but will access exploit central in a bind......yall know who you are......

Then there are the guys who play the game a lot and dont know all the ends and outs of real football and also dont look to find exploits and also dont play the game enough to know how to deal with very situaton they may run into. These are mainly the guys you see complaining about there last online opponent.

The "sim" players and "stick skill" guys should be a little happy. At long last they are implementing a feature that helps balance the playing field a little.
It may scare a few of you to know they are schooling up your usual victims to finally learn how deal with yall thus making the game a bit more challenging for you(and in the process upping your game skills also)

In the US everyone should be carrying a gun. Should be given to you at BIRTH. Mutually assured destruction breeds a more cautious criminal. He aint going into that school to shoot up students when he KNOWS they gonna be shooting back. Same thing applys to the game of Madden. Facing a opponent armed with knowledge, the typical "great madden player" gonna have to be carrying more than those 13 plays and exploits to his next game. Whats not to like about that ?

I don't fully know how this is implemented but anything that brings the users up to the level of the game without cheating for them is good for everyone. When they get everyone playing in a fashion that makes us all have to think instead of knowing how to game the game, then we will start seeing better online games.

My 2 cent.

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