Re: Hillis Ahead of Vick For Madden NFL 12 Cover
 

If Hills makes the cover it'll pain me for how Broncos just gave him away...

i think that both wold look terrible

Re: Hillis Ahead of Vick For Madden NFL 12 Cover
 

But Cleveland DID stuff the ballot, lol. That's what makes this outcome so impressive. Cleveland finally managed to organize themselves so well that they're actually about to WIN something. I congratulate them for that, and also EA for not backing out.

Re: Hillis Ahead of Vick For Madden NFL 12 Cover
 

I am a big Mick Vick fan, but I am glad Hillis won. I also like Hillis. I love his tough mentality and I always liked power backs instead of speed backs. I was surprised that Broncos traded him. Being the cover athlete of Madden will get the Browns and Hillis more notice.
Hopefully since he will most likely win the Cover, the power run game is improved. The animations for Power Backs arent great and isnt fun. especially with pro-tak which makes it unrealistic.
I wonder if Madden will do what NCAA is doing and have downloadable covers for other candidates I think.
"For those of you who voted for Nick Fairley, Jake Locker, and DeMarco Murray to be on the cover of NCAA Football 12, we'd like to thank you for your efforts by providing down-loadable covers of your favorite athlete. As we get closer to launch (July 12th), you'll be able to download the covers directly from the official NCAA Football 12 website!"

The thing is there's more to this than just the cover art. With Brees on the cover this past year, the 'theme' of the game, as evidenced by the opening montage/highlight reel, centered around the Saints, Drew Brees and their Super Bowl win. How the heck does Madden incorporate Peyton Hillis into something like that? Most casual fans probably don't even know him.

Re: Hillis Ahead of Vick For Madden NFL 12 Cover
 

So use the opportunity to highlight him? Or just go with an league-encompassing intro like games used to.

I was thinking the same thing when I heard it was between those two. I wasn't actually following this non-sense but some pieces of info u just can't ignore.

Hillis would definitely be a marketing nightmare for EA IF he actually does win and EA doesn't "shift" a few numbers. Heh...

God knows you could make.a highlight reel off of him blasting lbs and dbs, even injuring a couple that tried to hit him high... Not to mention the 1 handed catches, finger tip catches... The 5 defenders he hurdles going down field.