Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

[Millennium]

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[Giants4Natic]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Graphics are superb

Audio stinks, Gus at times sounds like the game is shifting from dolby digital to stereo sound. Calls Kiwi kiwinoko

Replay are fixed from demo,

Away team never celebrates tds

Ahmad Bradshaw has eye and nose tape in edit screen and in game he does not

Fixed cowboys entrance

[jmurphy31]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Graphics are fantastic...

Audio is improved with more lines, but changes in quality. Numbers are called a lot in commentary rather than names. Gus says wrong things sometimes (already mentioned in another thread about the kick return replay)

Banners look like the demo which is an improvement over last year, but I still don't see a ton yet (mostly Play Now games)

[Flightwhite24]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Currently playing my Cboys vs Titans @ Cowboy Stadium with the roof open on a clear day and DAMN!!!! does this game look gorgeous. Simply an incredible site.

[Nightz]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Graphics are pretty awesome. I'm disappointed with the audio. I hate how he calls Ryan Mathews "#24" when Mathews is such a common last name.

[Giants4Natic]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

I dont mind as much calling the numbers as much as hearing Gus in Dolby Digital and Chris in stereo or etc. It is downright horrible and should be patched.

I also do not like the lack of celebration for away teams. Far to often they just run back to the sidelines and only celebrate on the bench.

[reverend_heat]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

The lack of attendance in rain games is just asinine, I have a hard time believing EA let this in the game. It needs to be fixed in the next update, this is the NFL guys, not the World League.

[Giants4Natic]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

The lack of attendance in rain games is just asinine, I have a hard time believing EA let this in the game. It needs to be fixed in the next update, this is the NFL guys, not the World League.

If you are referring to play now games, then no big deal but franchise it would bother me

[bkrich83]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Again, I'll preface this with the fact I've only put about 15 minutes of actual game time in.

Graphically, game to me is off the charts. Camera angles are great, color pallette seems to be much closer to real life and not washed out like it was in the past. Player movement was real herky jerky, but I changed gamespeed to slow (my normal preference anyway) and that smoothed it out imo. Intros and presentation really are a lot nicer.

On the audio side, not so good. Crowd noise doesn't seem any different, commentary is really poor. All stuff I think we knew already.

I did hear a great line from Gus Johnson though. Chris Johnson broke a long TD run against me. Gus screams "He's got run away from the cops speed!!" I will admit that did make me chuckle.

[JMD]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

So far I've played one half Chiefs -me vs the Titans at Arrowhead. The game looks fantastic. Presentation is nice but it bugs me the way the play select box comes up over the replays.

The Audio is horrific. Gus Johnson is terrible, robotic, calling several numbers instead of names, and is way behind the action on the field, especially when you score.

[jhoff80]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Maybe it's just me, but I find the player models to look not very good during the actual gameplay.

Don't get me wrong, the cutscene and replay graphics are awesome, but during the game it feels like a step back to me. Maybe that's just that I'm not used to the tweaked camera angle or something though.

[bkrich83]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Maybe it's just me, but I find the player models to look not very good during the actual gameplay.

Don't get me wrong, the cutscene and replay graphics are awesome, but during the game it feels like a step back to me. Maybe that's just that I'm not used to the tweaked camera angle or something though.

That's all subjective for everyone anyway. I think they look fine, but their movements seemed hyper frenetic until I set game speed to slow. At least for me that is.

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

That's all subjective for everyone anyway. I think they look fine, but their movements seemed hyper frenetic until I set game speed to slow. At least for me that is.

I agree...I might even bump down to very slow and check that out as well.

On a separate note, I'm in the small group of people who plays with broadcast cam and I think the game looks so much better that way. Animations seem smoother from that perspective, especially the running. I'm loving broadcast cam this year, and it's a bit more user friendly (in terms of vision) it seems.

[7points]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Maybe it's just me, but I find the player models to look not very good during the actual gameplay.

Don't get me wrong, the cutscene and replay graphics are awesome, but during the game it feels like a step back to me. Maybe that's just that I'm not used to the tweaked camera angle or something though.

They don't but the cut scenes and close ups look much better than previous years like you said.

[DGuinta1]

Re: Madden 12 Retail Impressions (Graphics/Presentation - NO QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION)

Audio sounds pretty good to me. Sounds like feet stomping when about to snap. Announcing is OK. Nothing too bad to me.