Madden 11 Demo Impressions Thread

[Maynard]

I think with enough tweaking this game can be a legit single player experience. Which I dont think could have been said about last year's at all.

agreed. While i feel like its basically identical to ncaa....obviously ncaa and nfl football are 2 different styles of football....but the 2 games play the same at their core. Playing the games is what i care about most and i love playing ncaa. I think with sliders that this game can give us the best football experience we have seen for madden thus far

i hope the outrage over the strategy pad can force EA to make a release day patch to use the old controls

[Derrville]

I like Gameflow a lot on offense. I use ask madden anyway so this just makes everything smoother. Id never use it on defense though. No way am i trusting the CPU to call my defense plays. I dont see me playing much of offline franchise though. On all madden i was able to score at will.

[Herm]

I'll have to try out this gameflow but i like to call all my own plays on offense and defense, so i hope its something that can work properly.

[dave]

And the play call screen looks so damn old fashion. NCAA way better.

What the hell are you talking about?
They're the same.

[Herm]

what kind of internet connections do you guys have its been 10 minutes and im on 79%, i have standard comcast internet service 13 mb DL.

I see some people saying its taking forever to download.

[Aso]

Does anyone know where the run/pass commit is?

[Herm]

what kind of internet connections do you guys have its been 10 minutes and im on 79%, i have standard comcast internet service 13 mb DL.

I see some people saying its taking forever to download.

took about 15 minutes at most

[Rudi]

Alright, just played my game on the demo. Keep in mind I have never played NCAA this year. Didnt play with GameFlow either.

-Not sure how I feel about players always sprinting....I know I'll probably end up getting used to it, but it just seems like everyone is skating around on the grass.

-The strategy pad isnt AS bad as everyone is making it out to be, its pretty easy to navigate. I would still prefer the old way

-CPU seemed to break a lot of tackles on All-pro, including Jericho Cotchery breaking 6 tackles on a little screen pass that he broke off for 79 yards to beat me. Meh

-I loved running the ball. If you are able to be patient(its kinda hard with auto-sprint) holes do open up and you can get some solid runs

-Tried press coverage one time, and Holmes burned whoever the Colts DB was by 15 fucking yards and scored a bomb. didnt try it again

-I tried play action off and on with mixed results. Sometimes it would work like a charm, other times id have people in my face in the backfield and it was a fail. Dont see a problem with that

-CPU pass rush was pretty legit, but could have a lot to do with the jets scheme/ratings on D

-overall, I like the game. I think it will be very enjoyable once it comes out and some good settings are discovered. I know im gunna end up playing the fuck out of it.

[Herm]

is the throw away option not in the demo? or is it just not r1 like ncaa? im on ps3

[Archer]

Does anyone know where the run/pass commit is?

Didn't they take run/pass commit out of madden after madden 09?

[RainboUnicorn]

Well I just played my first game on the demo.

Peyton Manning
18 completions for 580 yards and 8 td's.

[Tailback U]

lmao @ that manning stat.

i have been downloading this f'n thing all day. it's seriously been 4 hours. my connection is slow but not THAT slow.

[Herm]

im with the above poster who said they'd trust gameflow for offense but not defense.


Im pleasantly surprised with demo, i dont like that LBs are still superjumping to pick off passes and running stride for stride with WRs 30 yds downfield and swatting down passes.

[Aso]

Didn't they take run/pass commit out of madden after madden 09?

I was thinking the same thing:whisper:

It was said that they put it back in.

Maybe I'm wrong.

[killgod]

random note

if you go to OT and it remains tied, it'll restart OT and keep going.

I just missed wide a 53 yarder for the win, left 1 second on the clock. Manning bombed it to Wayne and caught it, i stopped him at the one not caring expecting a tie. Then all of a sudden the clock said 5:00 and they were kicking a FG? lol.