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Old 11-14-2005, 08:45 PM   #1
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Define "built from the ground up."

I made a jest in a recent post about the term, but it got me to thinking. What exactly does EA mean by "built from the ground up?" Obviously building for a system as complex as the 360, you have to start new, but does that mean we will see a new engine running past animations, AI and gameplay. Or, does "built from the ground up" mean we will see a whole new game from A to Z?
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Old 11-14-2005, 08:57 PM   #2
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I made a jest in a recent post about the term, but it got me to thinking. What exactly does EA mean by "built from the ground up?" Obviously building for a system as complex as the 360, you have to start new, but does that mean we will see a new engine running past animations, AI and gameplay. Or, does "built from the ground up" mean we will see a whole new game from A to Z?
It means they rewrote all the code for the 360.

It doesn't mean everything will be different.

Seriously, too much has been made out of this statement because in and of itself it provides very little information.
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It means they rewrote all the code for the 360.

It doesn't mean everything will be different.

Seriously, too much has been made out of this statement because in and of itself it provides very little information.
I agree that much has been made of this comment, but EA is using it. In fact, they coined the phrase themselves. And, when they use it, they are implying that nothing was left unturned. They are using this phrase to promote the game. The implication is, "It's not the same old Madden."
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Exactly..people say " its not new they have old animations in there" Well thats true but they re worked everything. So the old animations look alot better in my eyes..while there the same they look alot cleaner and smoother.
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Old 11-14-2005, 09:13 PM   #5
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i think mainly its just frustrating because , sure they may have rebuilt the code, but some of the same crap is going on... i know coding is very difficult but they really have us wondeirng what NEW things did they code, if stuff like suction blocking is still there.

I guess we assume recode and think ,"oh... they'll notice some of their problems that have plaqued the series and recode it..."
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Exactly..people say " its not new they have old animations in there" Well thats true but they re worked everything. So the old animations look alot better in my eyes..while there the same they look alot cleaner and smoother.
Well if it was really rebuilt from the ground up then that would seem to suggest that they took everything out and started over.
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Well if it was really rebuilt from the ground up then that would seem to suggest that they took everything out and started over.
They did..they scrapped out every single animations and did it over again and more.
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Re: Define "built from the ground up."

I still feel like this is a beefed up version of Madden06. We will all spend the money on it regardless.
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