Madden NFL 25 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360, PS3)

[Gosens6]

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Here's a nice video showing some pass rush is possible. The replays look awesome and I like how almost every sack has a different celebration to it.

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After watching that video, I feel like the guy controlling Aaron Rodgers didn't even try to attempt a pass. He just stood there so the Seahawks player could get sacks for the purpose of making the video.

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After watching that video, I feel like the guy controlling Aaron Rodgers didn't even try to attempt a pass. He just stood there so the Seahawks player could get sacks for the purpose of making the video.

Considering that the score was 4-2, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.

[kjcheezhead]

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Played a couple games on ps3. In 4 total games, I've only seen 1 punt. One game, CPU Russell Wilson went 11 of 12 with his one completion caught out of bounds. My only incompletions were when a defender jarred the ball out or a pick from a bad decision. No over/under throws, no drops.

I was playing on all pro. Haven't touched Madden since playing about 3 games back in December so I expected to be rusty. The passing game feels more realistic than the throw a we open from 13, but like others have mentioned its pretty easy and both the cpu and I were completing >90%.

[SageInfinite]

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After playing the Madden demo, I couldn't enjoy NCAA as much for some reason. IDK what it is.

[roadman]

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Slider adjustments help me a ton, especially with QB accuracy.

Last night, Rodgers(user) it 66% and Wilson hit 65%

Default sliders don't work well in this game if you are looking for sim games.

[Gosens6]

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After playing the Madden demo, I couldn't enjoy NCAA as much for some reason. IDK what it is.

I feel the same way, bro. NCAA feels stale as hell after playing Madden.

Madden is smoother, the presentation blows NCAAs out of the water (and thats not saying much) And the graphics are sharper on Madden. I tried to play a few games of NCAA and I shut it off after 2 quarters of the first game.

[SageInfinite]

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I feel the same way, bro. NCAA feels stale as hell after playing Madden.

Madden is smoother, the presentation blows NCAAs out of the water (and thats not saying much) And the graphics are sharper on Madden. I tried to play a few games of NCAA and I shut it off after 2 quarters of the first game.

I didn't even get through a quarter man, lol. I was enjoying NCAA too when it actually worked. Now I'm actually thinking about trading it in or something. It just did nothing for me.

[Gosens6]

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Gamestop has an offer for an extra 50% store credit when you trade in anything starting this Monday. NCAA is already on my trade in list.

[Only1LT]

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I hate adding my $0.02 on issues (huge lie), but I have a huge problem with sliders. When I say I have an issue with them, I don't mean those that use them or those that make recommendations for using them. You are doing what you have to do to enjoy the game, and you are trying to enable your fellow OSers to get the most out of the game as well. I have 0 issue with that, and they should be applauded for it. The issue I have is with the devs.

I know that sim is subjective, and that people can play the exact same game for totally different reasons, so I have sympathy for the challenges that the devs face with trying to come up with a please all. I'm sorry though, but what is being suggested goes far beyond challenging mass market appeal decisions.

I've seen in this thread among others, people suggesting that specific settings be lowered to 5 for one, 20 for others, still 0 for others. Again, I don't take issue with the suggestions or the offered help at all. It's not about that, but OMG, when these sliders are on a scale of 0-100, and many default to 50, the idea that you need to set some to 5, or worse yet 0, speaks to a serious problem. At least to me.

If you had to adjust some things from, say a default of 60, down to a 52 to get the game to play in the ball park of most people's view of a sim game, I'd say that's reasonable. To go from 50 to 5 or 0 says to me one of 2 things:

1- The people making this game don't even have a whiff of understanding of what sim is, or

2- The game is designed with the intended purpose of not playing like a sim.

I don't know about anyone else, but to me, regardless of whether the answer is 1 or 2, that doesn't instill much confidence for this title, in the near, or even distant future.

[Mr2Nice]

I feel the demo as a whole is bad,very bad. The Spread Option has the same issue as NCAA. Players go invisible really? Something that is going retail with invisible players is god awful. I know they will probably have a patch for this but if your selling something with a we can fix it later attitude means the game has even more flaws that the demo is not showing.

I'll pass like I have the past 2 years on Madden. Now if I could just do the same with NCAA oh yeah thats right next year there won't b one!

[Gosens6]

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I feel the demo as a whole is bad,very bad. The Spread Option has the same issue as NCAA. Players go invisible really? Something that is going retail with invisible players is god awful. I know they will probably have a patch for this but if your selling something with a we can fix it later attitude means the game has even more flaws that the demo is not showing.

I'll pass like I have the past 2 years on Madden. Now if I could just do the same with NCAA oh yeah thats right next year there won't b one!

Yes there will be.. It just won't have the NCAA name attached to it

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I just dominated the 49ers on All-Madden and it was awesome. We forced four interceptions, two fumbles (recovered one of them), and won 17-0. It's nice to know that even on the highest difficulty, that the CPU is also prone to mistakes. Most of my games on that setting have been pretty close.

My main gripes right now are that my line doesn't generate as good of a pass rush as I'd like, and that I give up a bit too many yards rushing. I can deal with that though.

It's crazy how I went from enjoying my time with NCAA not that long ago, to not wanting to play it after this demo. From what I'm reading it seems like several others of you feel the same way. It's just gonna keep collecting dust until I get to Gamestop to trade it in. I got my monies worth out of it though.

[LBzrule]

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The run game for the A.I team on All Madden is straight DUMB. The pass defense though is WEAK. I just passed for 589 and 5 TD's.

I will say this though, the new offensive audible system = A+ in my book. Best way to have a great deal of audibles at the users disposal and also a good way to somewhat implement formation shifting back into the game.

Also with the 4 man rush, why does the user have to control the DE in order to get him to trigger certain rush animations? He just needs to play that way whether I am controlling him or not.


Also still not a fan of the phantom tackle and guards peeling to the backside to pick up overloads.

[BearsNVA]

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In regards to the penalty system on this gen. I really believe there is a code flaw this gen when it comes to penalties. Something with this engine is not triggering the penalties properly.

I truly believe there is no fix....and that is why you never...ever here it talked about from the Tiburon team. Otherwise I truly believe they woul have addressed this long ago. It must be something deep in the engines core and they can't fix it to be where we would like it.


I have moved on from it....in fact I did after Madden 10. It is what it is. And other than that.......this demo IMO has me super pumped up for M25. And I depsised M13.....it was dreck compared to this far cleaner and far better tuned game.


I am going to play some more games tonight and tinker around with the sliders on All-Pro Slow speed and check out very slow as well.

"it was dreck compared to this far cleaner and far better tuned game."

Good to see some Yiddish on the OS boards, LOL.

[BearsNVA]

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I played a few games of the demo after playing a few games of NCAA 14.

Based off of shifting from one right to the other:

-Madden looks 100x's better than NCAA this year. I'm not talking about the coach models or player models. I'm talking about the stadiums, crowds, etc. I forget who the player was, but he looked like a whacked out meth head. The eyes of some of the players are horror film freakish.

-As far as gameplay goes I felt like Madden this year (even it being a demo) ran much smoother than NCAA.

-Defensive pass rush was nearly impossible, but that among other things can be tweaked with sliders.

Honestly for the first time in 4 years I might buy the game depending on what I see with the full retail version during the Season Ticket time period.