Madden NFL 16 Video - Tennessee Titans vs. New York Giants

[the veteran]

Sports Gamers Online has posted a Madden NFL 16 gameplay video featuring the Tennessee Titans vs. New York Giants. It's not quite a full game, as the video cuts out with just over 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

Check it out and post your thoughts.

[The JareBear]

Nice find my man!

[The JareBear]

Great to see the inaccurate passes from Eli

The way this guy plays defense kind of makes me want to punch my computer screen lol, its too bad you can still come through the LOS unblocked if you have your guy running forward before the snap. Oh well.

He hit ODB on about 3 high point aggressive catches towards the end, all on 1 on 1 coverage. Hopefully in a full game the CPU would start to change its coverage and maybe double ODB?

[noplace]

Game looks better until you put it up against its real life counterparts.. Saw some nice improvements but still lacks the look and feel of football. Yet I liked Madden 15 and this is a improvement over that. I'll buy it and probably enjoy it but this game could be so much better than its been.

[ZoneRead]

Looks improved over Madden 15. Looks better than Joe Montana Android Football 16.

Lighting looks vastly improved over 15. Nice.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Things I liked:

1. AI QB runs with a purpose and try to break tackles when they scramble.

2. Bigger players can run through arm tackles.

3. Ball carriers regain their balance a hell of a lot better after contact this year. Last year if you got touched you went down 99% of the time. So I am glad they improved stumble recovery.

4. CPU can execute screens for POSITIVE yards.

5. Defenders joining in on tackles to finish the ball carrier off.


Things I don't like:

1. Mostly full game on default sliders and only ONE penalty. I just find that odd to play 4 quarters and only 1 penalty happens.

2. AI punt returners are brain dead still.

[SwaggerCoach]

My key takeaway was this:

The CPU QB is FINALLY making intelligent decisions when under pressure.

I can't overstate the importance of this....



I saw Mariota take off and run on a few occasions, throw the ball away, and use MUCH more urgency in the pocket. The guy only had 1 sack, and IMO it was a solid, realistic coverage sack.

Few more notes:
- The CPU definitely has more urgency getting up field past the first down line. They're more aggressive with cutting up and picking up yards. Key example: the screen play to Sankey the Titans ran.
- The CPU also seems to be mixing up how deep it's attacking. I saw a good mix of short/med/long routes. No more dink and dunk (from what I've seen thus far)
- The run game still needs a lot of work. Hopefully sliders can tweak these areas.

Overall I'm pleasantly surprised!

[fancyclaps]

+ Passing game looks improved (The McCourty breakup @ 14:50 was amazing, and the AI throwing the ball away @ 27:15 was nice)
+ Cool to see the Olineman celebrate BEFORE Jennings scored on the breakaway run @ 8:05


- Running game looks the same as M 15
- A lot of odd broken tackles, maybe because of the difficulty level


I would've liked to see more penalties, but they can be tuned so I'm hoping that will settle any issues with that