Will People Adjust to the Pocket in Next-Gen Madden?
 

One of the Madden franchises' most glaring issues in past versions of the game has been with its offensive and defensive line interaction.

The gamer never got a realistic representation of an incredibly important part of football in the line play. We ended up seeing the same two or three animations that didn’t portray any kind of realism.

Madden 25 on next generation systems is touting a new “War in the Trenches” feature which promises to not only give overhauled offensive/defensive line play, but more importantly, it promises to change the way we play the game.

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You hit the nail on the head. The sim guys will love it. Those who like arcade style probably won't.
I'm a sim guy and former lineman so this is something i've been wanting for a LONG time.
I just hope the non sim community doesn't cry about it and cause EA to fix (break) it.

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I highly doubt they will put an end to guys rolling out and abusing the poor Madden AI

If they do kudos to the Madden team

However I won't hold my breath

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Let's hope so. The last time they tried this was Madden 10 and Ian mentioned in some interviews his fear people would keep dropping back and getting sacked. I don't think the pocket was the problem, but 10s sales weren't great and EA responded by going with more arcade style in 11.

I have my complaints with Madden, but the new pocket isn't one of them (at least what they shown so far). I just want to see it complimented with a more realistic route based passing game.

WR/DB interaction is huge in this sense. love that they touched the line but it will be for none if they dont fix the megatron vs random d back

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I assume the sim crowd will appreciate it....but it's really hard to evaluate when we've seen so little.

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Casuals should be able to adjust to a real pocket.

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Lets see how it works before passing judgement on how people will react, we have seen similar boasts of new technology by the madden development team before, such as advanced tackling systems, and advanced step mechanics that never panned out or made the gameplay that much more realistic or sim like.