Madden NFL 10 Video: New Features Walkthrough (Gametrailers)

[Da Bears]

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I'm at work, guys yall are killing me lol.

[davjaffe]

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I'm starting to get very excited for this game. However, my favorite part of Madden has always been running the ball, and in the videos I've seen thus far (including this new one), the running game looks to be similarly problematic to last year's edition.

I know that there have been OL/DL improvements made, and the game speed has been slowed to facilitate running, but it still looked like the play got blown up too soon, and there was still the same silly, slow "hop-juke" at play, and the holes still didn't seem to materialize as well as they should.

Could we possibly get some footage of the running game in action?

P.S. I agree with those who have already said that we need the yardage lines back on the play-call screen.

[Smoke316]

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Why does the grass glow so much?

I saw that too, i dont think its glowing it might just be the tv because everything seemed bright

[kwas676]

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Im willing to bet the way the guy treated the interview had more to do with Madden's reputation.

I don't really think so, Ian was talking about little things that I guess they don't care much about.

[LBzrule]

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I'm starting to get very excited for this game. However, my favorite part of Madden has always been running the ball, and in the videos I've seen thus far (including this new one), the running game looks to be similarly problematic to last year's edition.

I know that there have been OL/DL improvements made, and the game speed has been slowed to facilitate running, but it still looked like the play got blown up too soon, and there was still the same silly, slow "hop-juke" at play, and the holes still didn't seem to materialize as well as they should.

Could we possibly get some footage of the running game in action?

P.S. I agree with those who have already said that we need the yardage lines back on the play-call screen.

Well I'm expecting some plays to get blown up by guys like Dockett, Hampton, Ngata, Rogers and the like. One side of the community is begging for the DT's/NT's to play better, get penetration at times. The other side is saying the DL gets off too fast. We need to come in the middle somewhere and accept that sometimes these guys need to blow up these plays and other times maybe not. I can say this though, CD build, there were no problems at all running the football. None.

[Valdarez]

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One of the best examples of game play and presentation we have seen thus far.

Game Play
Best game play I have seen in Madden, ever. Pocket's forming, guys are coming off the line correctly (no instant start). Game speed looks good. Coverage looks good.

The pocket is better, but still doesn't look quite right. It might just be that on this play the DT got pressure, but they pushed right up the middle, pretty much negating the pocket feel.

The biggest problem that I saw was the DB coverage by the guys that weren't in man coverage (zone players). The safeties that were deep (looks like Cover man 2) were still instant turning (you can see the one on the right do it several times). This is going to be a game breaker for any zone coverage, and something that still doesn't appear to be fixed/addressed. Looks like instant turns are still in.

Presentation
Looks good. The one thing that I see which still hasn't been fixed are the quick head jerks (snapping), and then how the camera follows players after a play is over. The camera follows a player (locked in) and because the players movements are fast/jerky, it causes the camera to jerk as well. The camera needs to get a passing shot of the player. Find a player to follow, determine their direction, and then let the camera float that way independently. Even if they lose sight of the player, at least the camera won't jerk back and forth. When the player is no longer in frame, then transition to another player, or to the same player from a different angle.

[Valdarez]

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Does anyone besides me wish that Madden moments were the actual games, instead of situational scenarios? I don't want to play the last 2 minutes of the game. I want to play the game itself.

[burne]

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There's still no momentum. Watch Holmes cut up the field on a dime. I'm really hoping that's something that's just still not in the game yet. If, after the blog and all the focus on tuning turn speeds and acceleration, this is the final, I will be pretty disappointed.

[g2thecore]

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Yeah nothing new, but I still enjoyed the new gameplay footage.

[NYyankz225]

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There's still no momentum. Watch Holmes cut up the field on a dime. I'm really hoping that's something that's just still not in the game yet. If, after the blog and all the focus on tuning turn speeds and acceleration, this is the final, I will be pretty disappointed.

This looks to be the same event as the previous IGN videos we've gotten so no adjustments that were made are shown in this video.

[Reggie16]

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i enjoyed the new gameplay! cant wait for this!! definitely a midnight release for me

[splff3000]

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One concern for me is that at the lime of scrimmage (pre-snap), only the offensive skill player names appear... i was hoping they might show the defensive skill players names too, so i knew who my wr or te was up against.

I wouldn't throw to ochocinco if asomugha was on him kinda thing... makes it more of a chess game... the current way is a guessing game... checkers.

Thank You!!! Thank you!!! Thank You!!! I thought I was the only one that wanted this. I've been asking for this for YEARS!!!! I NEED to know if my WR is lined up against their top corner or if he's lined up against another corner. I'm gonna be more cautious if I know my WR is going up against an elite corner. Now, I have no way to know who's he lined up against. God forbid someone assigns their top corner to follow my no. 1 WR around. I NEED to know this.
Other than that the video looks good! Everyone has already listed most of my complaints about the vid so there's no need to go over them again, but PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! SHOW THE DEFENSIVE SKILLED PLAYERS NAMES BEFORE SNAP!!!!!!! Better yet, you can show all of the defensive players names before snap if you like.

[adembroski]

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Now you know how the community felt dealing with Mr. Ortiz for the last few years

+1

Does anyone besides me wish that Madden moments were the actual games, instead of situational scenarios? I don't want to play the last 2 minutes of the game. I want to play the game itself.

Ehm... I'm lost. If you want to replay the "moment" that Peyton Manning drove the Colts to beat the Vikings last year, but you want to play the whole game, couldn't you simply set up a Play Now game between the Colts and Vikings?

[Deegeezy]

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One of the best examples of game play and presentation we have seen thus far.

Game Play
Best game play I have seen in Madden, ever. Pocket's forming, guys are coming off the line correctly (no instant start). Game speed looks good. Coverage looks good.

The pocket is better, but still doesn't look quite right. It might just be that on this play the DT got pressure, but they pushed right up the middle, pretty much negating the pocket feel.

The biggest problem that I saw was the DB coverage by the guys that weren't in man coverage (zone players). The safeties that were deep (looks like Cover man 2) were still instant turning (you can see the one on the right do it several times). This is going to be a game breaker for any zone coverage, and something that still doesn't appear to be fixed/addressed. Looks like instant turns are still in.

Presentation
Looks good. The one thing that I see which still hasn't been fixed are the quick head jerks (snapping), and then how the camera follows players after a play is over. The camera follows a player (locked in) and because the players movements are fast/jerky, it causes the camera to jerk as well. The camera needs to get a passing shot of the player. Find a player to follow, determine their direction, and then let the camera float that way independently. Even if they lose site of the player, at least the camera won't jerk back and forth. When the player is no longer in frame, then transition to another player, or to the same player from a different angle.

That is a very good observation and excellent job of explaining it. You're right, that is the way cameras follow players in real life. It would look more crisp if it is done that way on the game. Sounds difficult to implement though because I think the camera movement, no matter where it is, is dictated by the player's movement.

[Smoke316]

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Does anyone besides me wish that Madden moments were the actual games, instead of situational scenarios? I don't want to play the last 2 minutes of the game. I want to play the game itself.

or you can just play the game itself in Play Now