I think the layout is cool but thats about it. The extra point thing is alright i guess. No highlights so what's the point? I mean was it that hard to go and check the standings and stats without it?
But I'm still pumped for madden.
What was the point of 2k5s after 2 weeks? You got the same highlight over and over, and that's not the way they want to do it. If they can give you something more dynamic 2 months or even a year from now, would you take this over canned replays like 2k5 had? Just my thoughts on it.
There's a couple of disappointments like this. One more big one, one relatively minor. I think, when you get your hands on the game and feel the difference, you'll start to understand where the effort went... even if the gameplay hasn't LOOKED like it in videos, you feel it. Especially if they shore up 3 issues that existed, so far as I know, 3 weeks ago.
Now for my complaint about this... Josh Looman put it out there in the video, "It focuses on your team."
When I heard that, my reply, directly to Ian and the guy who codes this thing: Then what's the fuckin' point?! We're not asking for it because we want to be the focus, that's one of the problems with Franchise mode... we feel like the entire football world revolves around us. We want to be part of a living, breathing league.
The response, to a certain extent understandably, was that focusing on the whole league makes the show too long consider they don't have highlights yet (as in, if highlights were in, it WOULD go through every game, cover every last inch of territory)... but as you saw in the video, in what I consider an outstanding design feature, you can skip to whatever segment you like! So if it's too long, I'll just skip forward to what I DO want to see. Ian replied, "good point", but apparently didn't take it serious enough to make the change.
*shrug* what do ya do?