Madden NFL 09: Reasons to be Excited

[RaychelSnr]

Will Soistman checks in today with an article listing five reasons you should be excited about Madden NFL 09. What reasons did he give? Check em out here!

"The yearly installments of EA Sports' games are going to be making their rounds in the next couple of months. Year in and year out, EA makes adjustments and improvements to these key franchises in order to warrant yearly purchases from its fan base."

[ODogg]

All great reasons to be excited for Madden I agree, I can't wait until August!!

[coach ruckus]

Ok lets look at the big picture. after watching the videos i see THE SAME PLAYS FROM 1993!! can we make our own playbooks and play them online? the next thing is they havent fixed the blocking it still looks like a mess. where is the pocket look at the blocking it looks bad. I still see that you can run 50 yards back and chuck the ball 70 the other way. thats not real football. what about the online dashboards. i need more info on the person im playing to see if hes a cheater. the info i see isnt enough we need a vip system like 2k5 had. everything else looks good but I hope we can make up our own plays and use them online. now that would be sick.

[gimpmassa]

cant wait for 09. now all i have to do is wait for more of Will's advice to guide me in my gaming needs

[cletusdog]

fingers crossed. can't wait to see what new freezes and bugs there are to ruin franchise mode this year

[SteelerSpartan]

As of right now though Hammond sounds stale, bland, and robotic. They'll probably have to redo his lines for 2010.

Just compare it with like Nessler and you'll see how far behind he is.

Collinsworth does sound good though thus far

[callmetaternuts]

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Its moving the right direction.....lets just hope the gameplay lives up to all these other thigns being added or tweaked

[Blazelore]

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Ok lets look at the big picture. after watching the videos i see THE SAME PLAYS FROM 1993!! can we make our own playbooks and play them online? the next thing is they havent fixed the blocking it still looks like a mess. where is the pocket look at the blocking it looks bad. I still see that you can run 50 yards back and chuck the ball 70 the other way. thats not real football. what about the online dashboards. i need more info on the person im playing to see if hes a cheater. the info i see isnt enough we need a vip system like 2k5 had. everything else looks good but I hope we can make up our own plays and use them online. now that would be sick.

What are you talking about there still isn't any blocking? If you watched the locomotion video when they're showing the difference with movement the pockets are much more realistic. I'm talking about the play where they end up sacking Grossman. There was like a 3 sec window to get the pass off. Which is how it is in real life. Watch it again and you can see everyone trying to blcok the open guy. As a matter of fact whoever was playing if they would have step up in the pocket they probably would have gotten the pass off. That is a huge improvement over the last games.

[adfletch71]

They still havent said anything about the half-time and post game highlights. What about the playoffs and superbowl? Is it going to be as stale as last year. Will the stats in the PIP window, be career stats or just game stats? 2k5 has all stats pop in there game and what about QB evade, i hate the way madden QB system is. Either u have to toss the ball away or get sack. How about giving the QB a chance to get away EA. They showing some improvement, but its a shame its taking them 4 years to do so. I guess they add just enough and then save the rest for next year. They then say we have 85 new more improvements..lol. Come on EA, get with it!!

[Phobia]

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I can honestly say after watching (gameplay vids) and reading some of what is changing. This is the biggest single year leap MADDEN has made. It truly has me VERY VERY excitied.

Chaulk me up as = HYPED

[labguy]

"Yeah, it’s not online franchises, but this is a great start. "

Um no it is not. If you are going to do something why half-a$$ is? If they wanted to go the online league route then they should have at least fixed the locker feature so people could have a way to run online leagues themselves. For the life of me I still can not figure out why this idea of spawning and merging games was never refined.

[Phobia]

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"Yeah, it’s not online franchises, but this is a great start. "

Um no it is not. If you are going to do something why half-a$$ is? If they wanted to go the online league route then they should have at least fixed the locker feature so people could have a way to run online leagues themselves. For the life of me I still can not figure out why this idea of spawning and merging games was never refined.

They only have so much time. So would you rather not include anything.

I mean they could nclude online franchise but without enough time to fine tune it and make it bug free then it would end up with a bunch of problems. Then we would see nothing but post like "ONLINE FRANCHISE BUGS AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" or some other nonsense. Atleast this way they can fine tune the single season route and work the rest of next year to get the franchise part included. Don't be so entirely negative when they are atleast trying to include something useful and something we all want.

[DTX3]

Ever since last years game, im not going to believe or take the hype that EA Sports are trying to make out of this game, im going to wait until OS posts their review until deciding weather or not to buy this crappy game.

[clarkerots]

They only have so much time. So would you rather not include anything.

I mean they could nclude online franchise but without enough time to fine tune it and make it bug free then it would end up with a bunch of problems. Then we would see nothing but post like "ONLINE FRANCHISE BUGS AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" or some other nonsense. Atleast this way they can fine tune the single season route and work the rest of next year to get the franchise part included. Don't be so entirely negative when they are atleast trying to include something useful and something we all want.

They've had about 4 years. How much more time do they need?

[labguy]

They only have so much time. So would you rather not include anything.

I mean they could nclude online franchise but without enough time to fine tune it and make it bug free then it would end up with a bunch of problems. Then we would see nothing but post like "ONLINE FRANCHISE BUGS AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" or some other nonsense. Atleast this way they can fine tune the single season route and work the rest of next year to get the franchise part included. Don't be so entirely negative when they are atleast trying to include something useful and something we all want.

"They only have so much time."

What about the NCAA developers? They found the time.

"So would you rather not include anything."

To answer your question. I would rather they add a working locker feature this year. Since they already have the groundwork from that established. Yes it is not pretty but if functioning it does allow for an online franchise. You just don't have a pretty interface to look at the stats and interact with members. But everyone can download the franchise file to view stats and progression on their own. Then they could have had a portion of this development cycle and ALL of next development cycle to develop a fully functional online franchise feature in which they house the data and have an online interface for the seperate franchises. So I feel the time they spent on the online league is kind of a waste because the framework is faulty to begin with.

I am being negative on the one feature (or lack thereof) not the entire product. So I hardly call that being entirely negative. I just feel that the NCAA guys had the right approach and the Madden guys did not.