All this mumbo jumbo is unnecessary...Too many EA apologists just can't seem to understand this game is not very different than its predecessors. The legacy code of this game is broken and cannot be fixed. Ian and all his merry men can try ever so mighty to put humpty dumpty Madden back together again but its not gonna happen until consumers speak by not buying the game or demanding better quality.
All this pro-tak garbage and procedural awareness nonsense is not something that jumps out at me when I play the game...I see and feel the same horrible OL/DL interaction...DL are stuck and just fall down...There is absolutely no pass rush as the CPU sits in the pocket 4-ever...The running animations are not bad...THEY ARE ATROCIOUS...The PLAYBOOKS are old and delapidated. The presentation looks and feels pasted on in an effort to give an already dying game life...I still see brain dead DB's, slipping and sliding, warping players and terrible O-line blocking...The sad part is this will be likely the best Madden to date and here we are 6 years after 2K5 and they still can't touch 2K5...Never in a million years would I have thought that would be possible.
IMO someone other than Tiburon needs to make this game...There needs to be a fresh new start to this game with people who are committed to innovation instead of tweaking and Duplication...I'm a Madden head and I hate this game already..Its still boring...its still lifeless...Its McMadden..The McDonalds of the videogaming world. Give this game to EA Canada or some new fresh innovative developers who have the talent and authority to make a real next gen game. Tiburon is not cutting it...I wish the best for all its employees..Maybe they should stick with the NFL Street games and Superman but a Football sim is not what they should be doing.
The even sadder part is I'll probably buy the game...EA really has us by the balls