Madden 10 Demo Impressions

[Point Blank]

It depends on your internet connection. My shit takes forever.

 

[adembroski]

WoW! I'm about to leave work early to play it. How long does the Five Min Demo takes to download?

Took me a good 15 minutes.

 

[mgoblue2290]

Played two games of the 5 minute quarter demo, once with each team on All-Pro difficulty. I won my first game with the Steelers 22-19 but then lost when I was the Cardinals 21-7. Here are my impressions thus far:

-USAF Thunderbirds was a nice touch. The little facts before the game was cool as well.
-Willie Parker dominated in my first game and had something like 11 carries for 145 yards. His second carry was an 80 yard touch down run in which he broke out of two different tackles. Little unrealistic but it could happen.
-The tackles look really fluid most of the time, sometimes there this weird tackle that makes the receiver go flying but most of the time they look great. McFadden ran down Limas Sweed in the open field on one play and did this sweet leg sweep thing with his hand.
-Animations are very fluid, game speed is slower like everyone's been saying but I think slower is better.
-No QB pressure really. I didn't have any sacks in either of my games and my QB was under pressure maybe 5 times total in two games.
-Had one play where I ran a PA screen pass and Warner got hit from behind while throwing so the ball just kind sputtered out around the defensive line and Keisel grabbed it. Nice touch instead of defensive lineman never being able to grab those.

-The WR/DB interaction is nice. Threw one bomb to Fitzgerald and he made a nice little turn to adjust to the ball instead of just running blindly and grabbing it.
-You actually have to be smart when throwing the ball, sometimes you'll be able to the thread the needle but it can end badly, I threw two picks trying to force the ball. In previous Maddens this would work on the cpu but not in this game.
-Timing is also really important when throwing the ball. Sometimes if the QB throws it early the ball will just miss and land on the ground. This rarely happened in previous Maddens, nice to see that sometimes the ball just misses and their isn't a interception.
-QB throwing motions look much better and you can tell when they are really unleashing the ball and just throwing a dump pass.
-Showing the quarteback talking on the phone is cool as well. Also seeing Whisenhunt berate Kurt Warner after throwing a pick was funny.

Overall, I enjoyed the demo. The lower game speed made everything more fluid. After playing the demo, I'm going to be buying this game.

For the record, I'm a big time EA hater and it looks like this Ian Cummings guy is taking the series in the right direction.

 

[jags224]

i just missed a 29 yard field goal for the win, fuck

 

[zack54attack]

PS3 one out???

 

[Maynard]

called the gamestop by my work and they still have codes available

 

[adembroski]

Anybody here tried the "spring from center and throw the bomb off your back foot" thing yet?

 

[Tengo Juego]

Slowing down the game has helped this game SOOOO much.

 

[killgod]

PS3 gamestop codes now activated

Serious?!

 

[MVP1991]

Serious?!

Aso said the same thing

 

[killgod]

Aso said the same thing

As in he's downloaded it already?


If so, I want that spare account of his to try. :marshmellow:

 

[zack54attack]

PS3 ones are now live.

I got 9 minutes to go.

 

[MVP1991]

As in he's downloaded it already?


If so, I want that spare account of his to try. :marshmellow:

Yessir

 

[MVP1991]

PS3 ones are now live.

I got 9 minutes to go.

PM????

 

[MVP1991]

You can't share the codes.

You can share accounts though. :marshmellow:

 

[Archer]

Anybody here tried the "spring from center and throw the bomb off your back foot" thing yet?

I tried it

I didnt try it a 2nd time is all you need to know about the results

 

[Point Blank]

The 1min qtr demo sucks donkey balls..lol.

 

[Archer]

I'm pretty sure Archer tried and said it wouldn't work. Could be wrong though.

Nah that dont work on 360 , we just tried with the codes

Im anxious to see if their way works though

 

[Sportsbuck]

Alright, I played one full game on the 5 minute version, All-Pro as the Steelers. I had a great game and ended up losing in a gay way, 17-14 because I kicked a FG to send it into OT, but some dumbass backup TE got a holding penalty and a penalty on the offense when time expires means the game is over.

My thoughts:
- Zone coverage is definately more effective this year. Maybe it was because I tried playing Boldin and Fitz in man, but they tore me up everytime I went to it.
- Warner started to pick me apart late, he finally adjusted to the zone I was playing and he was finding Fitz all over the place.
- Had a beautiful TD to tie it up with 2 minutes left, the Cards blitzed their corners and I hit Parker out in the flats, he juked the safety out of his shorts and cruised into the endzone.

Right now I'm in the first quarter of another playing as the Cards.

Any reason why I don't have commentary on my demo?

 

[Boss AZ]

Someone on PS3 needs to hook me up. Thanks :marshmellow: