No Defensive Playmaker for MADDEN 2007 360 version..AGAIN!

[Deltron]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

You are way faster than me.

I guess so. I am pretty fast with it. It's called practice.

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by Deltron

I guess so. I am pretty fast with it. It's called practice.

I am 35. Too slow I guess.

[Deltron]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

I am 35. Too slow I guess.

Well I can see not being able to change player assignments while the offense is walking up, that takes some speed and planning to be able to do.

The shifts and stunts I think are pretty easy to do. Shifting your dline over, stunting your dline, shifting LBs, and then shading the coverage is 4 changes. But really to me it feels like a Mortal Kombat manuever or something. All the button presses just link together.

It just happens in a second or two once I see the formation. It helps if you know what exactly you want to do vs. any formation or situation. If you are thinking about what you want to do you will never have enough time. It has to be ingrained.

BTW, I'm 26, not exactly a teenager on a suger rush or anything.

[maddenps2]

It's hard at first but once you practice you can do it pretty quickly. Infact i remember sometimes people online would try to snap it quickly cause they realized i was trying to adjust my defense. That kind happens in real life also.

[dbrandon]

Quote: Originally Posted by djordan

ShopMaster Community day Impressions --NO DEFENSIVE PLAYMAKER FOR MADDEN 2007!!! Heard it on the MaddenNation Radio show....which can be found here http://broadcastmonsters.com/Maddenn...tion072706.asx

Why does this suprise you? They almost did not include the superstar mode. Not that I care. You guys never seem to get it EA will never add all we want to a game. They are into sales and sales alone. The less they do (add) means more buckage for them. We have only been asking for NCAA to have in game saves for six years now.

[steveo]

FUnny that people defend EA on this and talk about wanting realistic gameplay and all that yet they don't see to see that all the trivial crap like madden challenges/ mini games, superstar mode, etc could be taken out and mroe focus on the actual gameplay.

Oh well...I guess some companies just have the ability to have others defend them regardless.

I for one won't be buying madden 07 on the 360 unless I can get it sued for a super low amount. I dislike what EA does and dont care if it is the only nfl game this year...I'd ratehr stick to the principality of the issue than think I HAVE to buy it to want to play football.

To each their own.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkrich83

Here's where it's not as verastile as the individual playmaker. Hit the button for LB adjustments (Right Shoulder button?) then hit the right stick up. It will drop all of your LB's in to zone.

Yup. Right Bumper. It's VERY helpful in some situations!

It's nowhere close to what defensive playmaker was, but it def is useful... it's sort of a "at least we have this" feeling.

Quote: Originally Posted by Deltron

I know what I want to do based on the package that is coming out. It is not all about on-the-fly adjustements. It is about creating a scheme that you want to run. For example I might see a certain offensive package and want to call a zone blitz. I already know what changes I have to make to a play to create "my" zone blitz. As the offensive is walking up to the line I'm making changes to my play, changing player assignments. Adjusting on-the-fly to the formation, you have time to basically shift your LBs, shift your dline, stunt the dline, and maybe shade the coverage one way. That is done after they show their formation. So I can still do about 4 on-the-fly adjustments very quickly, and change a couple player assignments as the offense is walking up. Yes you have to be very quick sometimes, and you definitely have to plan out a system of what guy you change first, how many times you hit A to get to the next guy, etc. Sometimes I'm overly ambitious and have to scale back things. But it was extremely fun to be able to go into practice mode and create new plays, then bring them out to the field.

EXACTLY... perfect example:

Offense comes out with 4 WR's, and you're playing a Nickel Cover 2 Zone... if you motion one WR to the other side and stack three on one side and leave one alone, the LB who is playing man coverage will easily have a disadvantage. THAT is who you exploit on offense.

With Def. playmaker, you can easily select the FS/SS and break him off his zone coverage and have him man up the WR in motion, allowing the LB to stay in and cover the TE or HB/FB out the backfield.

Quote: Originally Posted by djordan

Man Some of you cats are so BLINDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD it doesn't even make sense..... Please go to the madden challeneges and what not and say that vick is stoppable. Man when we had hot routes people could actual set up schemes to stop vick. Without them IT IS A WRAP. Some of you guys that don't ball online or against top ballers are just plain ole blind if you think scrabling QBs are easy to stop. Thats why Defensive pre-snap adjustments were key. O well...

Good point... but to be fair, the people that play to win in the Madden Challenges don't play anything that even CLOSELY resembles sim football. It's all about the "stick skills."

[talbain]

i thought i had read that the defensive playmakers weren't in any version of 07, not just the 360. can anyone confirm that the current gen versions will have this feature while the next gen rev is left out?