Madden NFL 13 News Post

Madden NFL 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

07:05 AM - August 14, 2012 by buddy321813

Madden NFL 13 demo is available now for the 360, queue it up right here.

If it's not showing up on your console, try this route.

1: Go to Game Marketplace
2: Demo
3: Genre
4: Kinect

The Madden NFL 13 demo will be available for PS3 later this afternoon. We'll update the post when it pops up online.

The Madden NFL 13 demo includes the New York Giants vs. San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks vs. Washington Redskins.

You can choose difficulty settings. 5 min quarters and it's an entire game. It will also have full commentary. No sliders this year. You can change play style between game flow and conventional.

Check here for PS Vita demo details.

Play a game or two and post your impressions here.

*UPDATE: Madden NFL 13 demo is online for PS3 now!

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# 1281 FinnZzgo @ 08/16/12 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by FT-Mac


	I've posted my demo impressions already but wanted to continue. I was excited after playing the demo. Best madden of this gen consoles but seems like EA has f***ed zoom camera view. I used that view with M12 and now it is just horrible. The demo is great but with CC and new zoom camera, I won't buy this. I would've liked to test zoom camera with this demo also!! Did anyone else use zoom camera with M12, seems stupid to remove views, why not make an extra one if you want something different.

You cant use the new zoom view in the madden 13 demo.

# 1282 RGiles36 @ 08/16/12 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by La Verite


	He was actually askingyou're because I am to. At 100 threshold makes the players equal in speed correct? How is that better? I'm really asking not bashing.

Nah, it doesn't make the players equal in speed. There's a thread on the first page that explains what it is threshold controls.

# 1283 Soprano00 @ 08/16/12 03:37 PM

Had a bad feel the first time yesterday, but today i played again and I must say I enjoyed it a lot. I like the tackles and the new engine. P.s. qb run didn't work on 4 and inches as usual... good!

# 1284 fjackson18 @ 08/16/12 03:55 PM

Tried messing with the sliders. but seems like if you move one either way... it reverts to rookie. not sure if others are seeing this.

# 1285 Dogslax41 @ 08/16/12 03:59 PM

Final Thoughts on Demo
I think I am finally ready to delete the demo and head back to APF2k8 until Season Pass is released.

Top 5 Pros

Anything can happen feel
Love this as this was what kept me from playing Madden in the past after the first two months. The lack of scripted tackle animations gives the feel that you can�t really predict how a play will end up anymore by just guessing one of two animations.

Total Control Passing
The lead/throw to the back shoulder is nothing new so I�m not considering that a plus, but the sensitivity adjustment to the button press revolutionizes the passing game in my eyes because now I can make the sideline over the CB/under the Safety or middle of the zone throws without worrying about the poor trajectory causing an interception on the correct read.

Catch Animations
These are absolutely gorgeous this year. Receivers take the ball in stride or make proper body adjustments to make the catch and DBs go up and meet the ball at its highest point. Very well done this year and actually impact the game in terms of YAC and interception return ability.

DB Play
The secondary is much improved in my eyes. Throws that should be picked off get picked off and contested balls feel like they are just that, contested. Love the safety play (this single handedly kept me from purchasing NCAA this year). Safeties play properly over the top much better than any game since 2008.

Physics
This one is going to appear in the top 5 pros and top 5 cons for me. When it works it is beautiful. When it doesn�t its horrendous. The retail video seems to have found a middle ground but the tighter they made the physics the more it looked like Madden 12. Unfortunately with where it�s at it is a double edge sword. It�s in my pros list for the times it works and what it could mean for the future.

Top 5 cons

Brace for impact animation
I can�t stand this one bit. It looks completely unnatural and breaks up the look of almost every run. In reality when you are about to be hit you don�t drop your head forward, if pro ball carriers did this you would see 20-30 spinal injuries in a game. Needs to be tweaked to be a more turtle animation to look more natural. Its #1 for me because it happens almost every play.

Kicking game
This one could very easily be all 5 cons for me I dislike it that much. Kicks are automatic, might as well not even be in the game. You don�t even need to press forward on an extra point and it goes through the uprights every time. Wish they went with a timing based system like another game made back in 2008 where kicking was nowhere near guaranteed.

CPU AI Play calling
Has always been an issue in Madden and appears that it always will be. The shame of this is when they gave us editable game plans with situational subsets and I went through and designed 32 offensive and defensive game plans that completely fixed this issue and games played out realistically and provided an added difficulty challenge. Then they patched the game and broke the ability to give CPUs custom game plans and it has never come back.

Players and teams all play too similar
The teams playing too similar could be rectified with more team specific playbooks that they adhered to. The players playing too similar to me is an issue with ratings. This was my caveat when they announced no editing, no editing to be able to get the head coach style franchise was perfectly acceptable to me as long as the ratings were spread out and made players unique. Maybe in the retail but I am just not seeing it in the demo. Any QB on the depth chart I play with plays just like the one before and them same with other skill positions. Simple fixes seem like they would go a long way. For example break a QB�s accuracy ratings into buckets. 85-100 Accuracy gets access to all types of button sensitive throws, 70-85 gets lob and bullet, below 50 - 70 gets a generic mid lob every time, below 50 gets a random throw. Pair this with Arm Strength and 85-100 accuracy and 85-100 power get access to bullet passes up to 40 yards down field 85-100 accuracy and 70-80 power can throw a bullet up to 30 yards anything 30 - 50 becomes a normal and >50 is automatically a lob. This would make qb ratings mean something.

Physics
Again this one appears in both because it is clearly a work in progress. Wrap tackles need to be improved tremendously along with other general physics tweaks.

# 1286 bucknut88 @ 08/16/12 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by fjackson18


	Tried messing with the sliders. but seems like if you move one either way... it reverts to rookie. not sure if others are seeing this.

Does it actually revert it to rookie? In the past when you messed with sliders is moved it to "Custom". I guess what I'm saying is if you go to All Madden all Human sliders go to 25. If you move one up to 50 and it says "Rookie" now, do the other sliders get re-adjusted? Or are they all still at 25?

Check that. Because they may not have the "Custom" difficulty setting anymore, or in the demo. But the sliders may still stay where you originally selected it. Let me know...

# 1287 fjackson18 @ 08/16/12 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by bucknut88


	Does it actually revert it to rookie? In the past when you messed with sliders is moved it to "Custom". I guess what I'm saying is if you go to All Madden all Human sliders go to 25. If you move one up to 50 and it says "Rookie" now, do the other sliders get re-adjusted? Or are they all still at 25? Check that. Because they may not have the "Custom" difficulty setting anymore, or in the demo. But the sliders may still stay where you originally selected it. Let me know...

I checked and played with it for a while today. no matter what difficulty you put it on if you move one slider no matter which it is. and you go back to game options it says rookie. which sucks was hoping to work on finding so sliders for the retail copy. the sliders you adjusted stay the same though.

# 1288 bucknut88 @ 08/16/12 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by fjackson18


	I checked and played with it for a while today. no matter what difficulty you put it on if you move one slider no matter which it is. and you go back to game options it says rookie. which sucks was hoping to work on finding so sliders for the retail copy. the sliders you adjusted stay the same though.

You didn't really answer my question lol. It doesn't matter what the difficulty SAYS. Do all the sliders you didn't change go back to the rookie sliders? Or do all the sliders (that you changed and left alone) stay the same? If they stay the same it doesnt matter what the difficulty SAYS. I guess I'll have to wait until I get home from work to see for myself.

# 1289 psychraider32 @ 08/16/12 04:35 PM

How often do you guys see receivers fight for the ball? I have seen some nice catch animations and a few time were the receiver would go up to the highest point for the ball but not very often.

One cool thing I did see was my receivers collide on a crossing route and abolish a possible touchdown.

# 1290 Dogslax41 @ 08/16/12 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by bucknut88


	You didn't really answer my question lol. It doesn't matter what the difficulty SAYS. Do all the sliders you didn't change go back to the rookie sliders? Or do all the sliders (that you changed and left alone) stay the same? If they stay the same it doesnt matter what the difficulty SAYS. I guess I'll have to wait until I get home from work to see for myself.

The sliders don't change. It just says rookie instead of custom. Doesn't impact performance at all.

# 1291 bucknut88 @ 08/16/12 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Dogslax41


	The sliders don't change. It just says rookie instead of custom. Doesn't impact performance at all.

Thank you! So as I suspected, there really isn't anything wrong here....

# 1292 SanDiegoTrojans @ 08/16/12 04:45 PM

Slants are godly in this game my goodness. I destroyed the zone defense easily. I think reading the defense is easier. Also, the read option is pretty good.

# 1293 fjackson18 @ 08/16/12 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bucknut88


	You didn't really answer my question lol. It doesn't matter what the difficulty SAYS. Do all the sliders you didn't change go back to the rookie sliders? Or do all the sliders (that you changed and left alone) stay the same? If they stay the same it doesnt matter what the difficulty SAYS. I guess I'll have to wait until I get home from work to see for myself.

Sorry, so lets say you play on all madden. as we know it drops all player skill to 25. the cpus stay at 50 lets say you want better pass protection so you adjust it to 30. the game options the skill says rookie. they rest of the sliders will stay at 25 except the pass blocking which is at 30 the cpu skills stay at 50. from my observation the cpu skill is playing at rookie... however your team is playing at its adjusted sliders (a bunch of 25s and that one 30)

# 1294 Tyrant8RDFL @ 08/16/12 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by RGiles36


	My opinion yes, but that's an unpopular theory.

I to was one that felt closing the gap was the way to go, but then a defensive tackle picked up a fumble and my wr couldnt catch him in time

Now im looking at maybe going lower to about 35-40, or just leaving it at default. At the sametime I thinking a slower guy breaks one he should get caught from behind if a DB is faster than him. I can't get that at 85 where I was for a while.

# 1295 UGOOGLE DOT COM @ 08/16/12 05:02 PM

One word, Garbage.

# 1296 zonadrk @ 08/16/12 05:16 PM

I love so much about this demo - but to me in MY opinion the players are way too small. The size differential is also not enough. I think Randy Moss should be much bigger relative to the d-back that is covering him.
Bradshaw, the running back for the GIANTS, is way too small.

# 1297 MrJ2006 @ 08/16/12 05:34 PM

Quick impression so far, on default difficulty I'm having a much tougher time as Washington or Seattle. In the four games so far I've done 35-0 as the Giants with default and 77-0 as San Francisco without accelerated clock. As the Seahawks I won 24-14 without accelerated clock and 28-16 as Washington with default. Anyone else seeing this? Pro difficulty BTW.

# 1298 T1TRAPTOR @ 08/16/12 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Cre8


	Randy Moss is all but unstoppable. I really worry for the integrity of this game online when people will prolly pick San Fran and go deep every time.

I've actually had no problem defending Moss. I have heard of people getting beat deep though,

# 1299 La Verite @ 08/16/12 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by RGiles36


	Nah, it doesn't make the players equal in speed. There's a thread on the first page that explains what it is threshold controls.

I was asking about your experience with it, man. I know what it is myself but cool. I'm done.

# 1300 jersez @ 08/16/12 06:36 PM

For me all of my problems come from the sliders. it's obvious that game favors the cpu on all-madden and all-pro. Playing this demo for the last day or so, and noticing how little pressure the cpu qb get's from my Giants. I purposely ran a couple of blitz and some prevent defense(I put the cpu in a situation to use the hail mary), to see why no one is at less getting into the back field. (As it seems the cpu can always get into the back field.)

The blocking for the cpu is cheese, yes cheese. When you finally do get past a lineman, the back automatically clips you. From what I've seen, the ratings don't mean squat when it comes to o-line d-line interaction. I know this is slider based, so I'm not mad at the game. Other video games do this as well, but it's just so obvious I guess. The higher the difficulty usually the higher the sliders are for the cpu.

I'm hoping some slider adjustments and a solid roster can fix some of this stuff. I'm still having a good time playing the game. But blocking ai needs some work, maybe it will be better in the retail version. I'm hoping.

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Originally Posted by StrawHat Patriot


	Oh yeah anyone notice how certain teams automatically know you're doing an out route when they slide quickly towards the left or right? Yeah, if you know what I'm talking about, that should be FIXED!

I've noticed that as well.

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