Madden NFL 10 Blog: Blocking Improvements Part 2 - The Run Game

[adembroski]

Quote: Originally Posted by TJdaSportsGuy

Uhhh...lol.

Yeah, well, he must have covered, because he braces himself in the hit stick video. As I said, the responsibility is with the guy on the sticks.

[shotgun styles]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

I take back the sammich comment, Ware's got surprisingly skinny legs.

Oh I feel you on this one Adem, It's hard to believe they got the bodies right.

AFTER ALL THIS TIME!

Color me impressed with how well they made the players look this year.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Quote: Originally Posted by adembroski

Yeah, well, he must have covered, because he braces himself in the hit stick video. As I said, the responsibility is with the guy on the sticks.

Don't mean to clog up the thread with a useless argument but I'm sorry bro, there's no bracing there. Not that I can tell, anyway.

[therizing02]

Thanks again Ian! The game looks incredible! Great to see the new hit stick animations! The over abundance of WWF hits were quite annoying. Looking forward to the reports from E3.

[shotgun styles]

Quote: Originally Posted by rgiles36

Good read. Was hoping to see something about push-the-pile animations returning or any kind of interaction animations between RBs and his blockers. Perhaps not feasible for this year, but maybe just add some evasive or "squeeze through" animations that trigger automatically when the RB hits a wall of blockers/defenders a la the 2K games.

I was hoping for something about the goal-line/short yardage. Will we have "submarine" D-lineman and "over the pile" jumps by RBs?

[TheWatcher]

In the second video at :22 seconds, you'll notice that Portis stops dead in his tracks mid-run allowing the defender to latch on for the hit. I saw a lot of that in 09. It's not the worst thing in the world, but once you notice that it kinda sticks out.

[thaima1shu]

Awesome, awesome blog. I was hoping for some improvements to the running game, and this looks fantastic. Thanks Ian.

[Cryolemon]

Certainlylooks better than 09. Good blog as ever, Ian.