Madden NFL 11 Video: Gus Johnson and Jon Robinson - 5 Minutes of Gameplay

[Steve_OS]

ESPN Videogames' Jon Robinson and recently announced play-by-play man Gus Johnson teamed together in this Madden NFL 11 video.

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"One of the biggest complaints the EA Sports design team heard about "Madden NFL 10" was the lack of energy and emotion from the announce team. When you're playing a video game, do you want to listen to stale play-by-play where the announcer simply deadpans: "He's at the 20. He's at the 10. Touchdown." Or would you rather hear a passionate call where Chris Johnson breaks into the open field and you hear the announcer shout out: "He's got getting away from the cops speed!" Enter Gus Johnson. The crew at EA Sports wanted to do a major overhaul to the audio presentation in the game, and in doing so, signed the hippest, most electric play-by-play man in the booth. And by signing Gus Johnson to voice "Madden NFL 11" and beyond (along with Cris Collinsworth for color commentary), they are adding Johnson's signature style, catchphrases, and energy to every down of the game. "You have to remember, when the 'Madden' series first started, we only had 500 lines of commentary," explains the game's audio designer, Ronnie Morales. "Today we have over 90,000 lines, so we wanted somebody who can deliver those iconic calls, those calls that give you chills, and Gus Johnson is the only guy out there right now who can deliver that type of experience."

[PantherBeast_OS]

Play by play is sounding good right now. I'm also glad that this is prealpha Madden 11. Because the game looks very choppy sluggish right there. But can't wait to see full videos in about 3 weeks from E3. Thanks steveo.

[arsenal123gunners]

awesome, so excited to listen to Gus Johnson through my surround sound speakers

[Checmate101]

commentary was great, gameplay stale..I know I know, it's pre alpha

[TheGipper86]

Anyone else feel like EA went full force today to kinda negate the Backbreaker demo release? I mean, it can't be coincidence that we get NCAA/Madden updates the same day....can it?

[cdiddy71323]

Good lord Jon Robinson needs to stick to writing. He almost is trying too hard to sound like he's black lol

[bonannogiovanni]

Isn't That the same video posted earlier on Kotaku?

[madchuck4]

Wow, Gus Johnson and Collingsworth together is going to be amazing. Collingsworth nailed it in madden. It just sounded ridiculous because Hammond was soo damn bad. However, the duo is going to sound soo good, I can't wait!!!!