Madden NFL 12 Demo Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[jpdavis82]

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Consecutive hit tackles were explained earlier in the year(April?) that there would be no more than 3 tacklers per ball carrier.

I think the gang tackling(Protak) is a thing of the past.

There's a reason for it, I just did a search on youtube for nfl gang tackles, the first and only video I found for it not related to a video game was in baltimore and it was a 3 man tackle, Ed Reed, then Ray Lewis and another LB to finish it off.

[Mos1ted]

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Why? Because you said "NFL2k presentation was hall of fame" Madden is JV. That's completely disrespectful to EA and I promise you EA spent way more time on presentation that NFL2k ever did, just on the simple fact that they went and got each team's authentic intro, each stadium's broadcast camera, and hired NFL films to film the game, went to CBS and sat for who knows how many hours in camera trucks with those guys.

Well, excuse me for trying to make a football relevant analogy LOL. It's true, EA committed more resources to their presentation this year than what 2K probably did with previous football titles, but I still can't see how Madden's end result is better than what 2K5 did with Chris Berman and the highlight shows. There literally hasn't been a sports game since, let alone football or subsequent games by 2K, that has been able to replicate that, and this is going on 7 years now.

I'll admit, the team intros and broadcast elements looked good initially, but I've honestly seen too many gameplay videos already to the point where those elements are already old to me. The best presentation in the world won't save stale gameplay in the long run, but that's just my opinion. I'll discontinue this debate on my end as I don't want either of us to catch any infractions for comparison debates.

[Hilldog39]

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i noticed when playing with the packers, if you start killing the bears where there is no chance for comeback, as the quarters go on, i noticed the crowd getting smaller and seeing a lot more empty seats...cool to see dynamic crowds

[Da Amba Lamps]

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ok so two games played one on slow, one on normal. 35 speed threshold, on pro for both. I beat the bears 21-3 and ruined cutler's day, 4 sacks 2 ints, 40% completions. Then as the bears I won 24-0. cutler had a very solid game completing two deep balls one to knox one to hester for long tds. I went over 100 with grant and forte.

I loved the demo except that at least on pro, user defense was waaaaay too good. too many sacks, 5 against the bears 4 against the pack. I held both offenses under 100 total yards. Against the bears I thought it was due to cutler's DPP.

So perhaps a bump up in difficulty would give the offenses some better ability. I think a slider adjustment in pass protection is going to be in order for the release.

[Holt81]

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Dld it on PS3, in the 2nd quarter now. Annnnd just had Cutler throw a long bomb on me, did an all out blitz and I paid for it. Really am enjoying this compared to Madden 11. Seeing new tackle animations, defense feels much improved.

[RememberMe12]

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They really improved the catching in this years game. Two examples that I took on my camera. Sorry for the chatter, but I was talking to my friends in a party about the demo.

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[jpdavis82]

Re: Madden NFL 12 Demo Available Now, Post Impressions Here (360)

Well, excuse me for trying to make a football relevant analogy LOL. It's true, EA committed more resources to their presentation this year than what 2K probably did with previous football titles, but I still can't see how Madden's end result is better than what 2K5 did with Chris Berman and the highlight shows. There literally hasn't been a sports game since, let alone football or subsequent games by 2K, that has been able to replicate that, and this is going on 7 years now.

I'll admit, the team intros and broadcast elements looked good initially, but I've honestly seen too many gameplay videos already to the point where those elements are already old to me. The best presentation in the world won't save stale gameplay in the long run, but that's just my opinion. I'll discontinue this debate on my end as I don't want either of us to catch any infractions for comparison debates.

NBA 2k11's halftime show was a lot better than NFL2k5's.

[Doker44]

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If you like to play online offense looks way to easy. Some good things I saw but I hate playing 35-42 games all day long and no defense will kill it for me.

[Ronnie brown23]

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zone is nowhere near as good as in ncaa. its actually pretty bad. hope they fix that before release.

[robbins]

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It's not a glitch, it's a design decision. There's a difference. Regardless, you've posted this like 10 times in this thread.

It's a glitch in thinking then. Horrendous design decision and that is actually worse than it being a in game glitch because they MEANT to do it. Not good. We need to vote with our wallets on this one and maybe they will fix the error in their "design".

[jpdavis82]

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If you like to play online offense looks way to easy. Some good things I saw but I hate playing 35-42 games all day long and no defense will kill it for me.

Interesting you say that, what difficulty are you playing on? All my games have been in the single digits to low teens.

[CRMosier_LM]

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All-Madden once again is about making the computer players super heroes instead of using attributes to represent each player.

Jay Cutler broke 2 tackles, and burned Nick Collins for a 60 yard TD (rushing)

He also lowed his shoulder down field on Clay Matthews and trucked him, and kept running.

The dropped passes in this game for users are still a shame, as well as the 1 second rush blocking system they use when they block until you get the ball then they let go no matter who it is.

J. Finley has about 8 drops a game for me as well.

Breaking tackles, missing blocks, and un-represented player attributes, Madden is terrible. You either beat down All-Pro or watch BS happen on All-Madden.

It has always been that way, all Madden has always been super human. Players play way above their ratings and very unrealistic. That is the intention. Even the dev team will tell you that all pro shows off the players true ratings.

[Zezoina]

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First impression, really liked the demo, gameplay was fluid, game feels great on offence and on defence, zone defense is much better.
Some other things that i liked was that I was able to block a PAT and i saw a pass interference call on the CPU.
Also Jay Cutler was scrambling a lot, really good to see QB Scrambling

[jpdavis82]

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First impression, really liked the demo, gameplay was fluid, game feels great on offence and on defence, zone defense is much better.
Two other thing that i liked was that I was able to block a PAT and i saw a pass interference call on the CPU.

What difficulty and did you use any sliders?

[Uped145]

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Consecutive hit tackles were explained earlier in the year(April?) that there would be no more than 3 tacklers per ball carrier.

I think the gang tackling(Protak) is a thing of the past.

Ok I thought they took out tackles with multiple defenders period, but since they confirmed you can have up to 3 defenders that's good