Madden NFL 10 Trailer

[boondock18]

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I thought the db/wr animations looked pretty good...

The o line interaction with the d line looked alright.. but go back and look at the pocket warner is throwing in at the end of the video when he throws it into the endzone.. kinda looks like crap i think...

I like the gang tackles, hopefully there is a lot of variety in them, like stopping the play do to foward progress being haulted and stuff like that.... and hopefully it's not easy to break out of as a running back.

The player models look pretty awesome I think..

I think having chunks of the field flying up would really help the presentation of this game.. especially when the running back is fighting so hard in those gang tackles.. and you can see that his feet are trying to dig into the ground. impossible to add to the game, sure, more important things to fix, sure.. just something that came across my mind when watching this trailer.

Overall it looked promising.. but I still agree with a lot of you guys that some of the animations look like they need to be sured up a bit. I think this game will have a lot of improvements, I think we can all agree that it would be impossible not to be vastly supperior to last years.

But at the end of the day someone else has raised the bar from what we shoudl expect out of our sports games, and it isn't from the guys at 2k. It's well documented on this site how great that mlb the show does at just about everything. It's telling that they have a whole thread dedicated to how awesome some meaningless things in that game are... and we are holding our breaths that the online works right.. and that the players look like they know how to run.

[Glorious Arc]

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I saw alot of things but right now I am going to comment on the interactino between Holmes and Hood. If you slow the video down by pausing it you can tell nearly right after Holmes gets off Hood Ben throws the ball down the field and nearly TEN yards later Holmes catches it. Thats a big plus

[lostintravise]

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Why is it that they look like they're sliding? Also, still do not like the throwing and running animations. besides that.. cool!!

[Brandon_c993]

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I have seen people on here say Willie Parker broke a 4-5 man gang tackle and they obviously like to exaggerate it was 3 guys...is that realistic no but it isn't nearly as unrealistic as 5....lol

The OL/DL interactions were amazing looked great as well as the WR/DB interactions, the running is still "stiff" and just does not look right... The "pile" for a fumble looked great I just hope we dont see this every single fumble....

I am kind of surprised that some people are saying the passing animations were not improved...did you see the same video I did? you know where Kurt Warner threw as he was getting hit??? The other passing animations were decent, not great but not bad either...

I was very impressed by the video and some of the new features/animations....

[kicker]

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Yeah, the animations are still pretty ugly overall.

However, the blocking was EXCELLENT from what I saw.

Did you miss the play near the end zone where the 3 interior lineman were looking forward stuck in an animation while the left tackle got beat like a drum, unrealistically i might add, and no one even looked at him?

Better while engaged, but FAR from excellent.

[KANE699]

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There were a lot of improvements Ian has talked about in that video, and I was really impressed. Gang tackling was awesome, and the strip/disrupt the pass move looked really good. The line interaction was awesome.

There were things I didn't like. The animations did seem very robotic in straight action. It seemed like the game wasn't quite moving at 60fps, there seemed to be some stutter issues. Some of the motions themselves were far from perfect, and I did wince at the Big Ben sequence. It just seemed like a lot of the animations were lacking polish, like they might have had the limbs and things in the right places, but it all just didn't flow together as one cohesive piece.

To me the good news is it seems like this video is from an earlier stage in the development cycle, even before they brought some of the OS guys in to try out the game. For those of you who read Ian's Twitter you'll recall him discussing putting a video together for Peter Moore for the first live demonstration, and this could be what we're seeing, which is somewhat supported by Kane saying that the game looked better on Fan day, but some of the stuff he did see was new.

When I say some of the stuff that I saw was new, I meant in the video it was stuff that wasn't there on community day, ala robo qb and robot stiff running. I don't think I saw anything actually new in the video that I didn't see on cd. Either way it still looked good give or take a few animations

[dannydufflebags]

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I really hope that was Hood in a cover 2 zone, because if not he got burned by stupidity.

The thing that bothered me the most, was willi parker at a near dead stop. only to break out of a LB AND CB's tackle. If that was Brandon Jacobs, that play would be blown dead. You need momemtum to break those types of wrap up tackles.

It doesn't seem like there has been any emphasis on momemtum in Madden 10. Very dissapointed, I am looking forward to more video's, from a gameplay angle, so I can tell if the ol/dl interaction and pocket/run blocking are working.
I would also like to see proof that the WR will play the ball correctly, as well as momentum involved there as well.

[TooSmart]

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2 things are clear from this video. 1....ea is listening at least a little bit and 2....its an improvement from the previous years

the good......gang tackling, player interactions, catching on the run,
the bad....qb throwing the ball looks like he is about to squat down to take a duce. all the players running looks weird. it seems that they are lifting their legs too high when they run.

[adamgod8]

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didnt go through all the pages on here so not sure if anyone posted it yet...but at 1:26 the ref gets knocked down in the background haha

[cam21224]

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EA has you all in the palm of their hand. WAKE UP people, the problems will never be fixed. They show you one trailer and your all ready to let them off the hook for the last 6 years of next gen madden? get real!!

Dude like serious, this is not the same development team. Nor did we get screens, videos, blogs etc... broken down and actually be interacted with by the team putting Madden together in the previous years.

Think about it this way, no one here has to make a un-educated guess anymore since we are receiving news alot earlier then what we would have normally got, not to mention the best news has yet to come.

So ungrateful, this team is pouring their hearts into making Madden better for the long haul. Its like there giving us a early demo(thats not the finish product yet) yet we complain.

Like, wake up dude.

Maybe you do need another blitz style game in your life, im no one to speak for all of the OS football lovers but we perfer a great sim-game of football, which is in the making and smelling better then bacon.

[sportzbro]

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I enjoyed the video. People have to remember there is still a lot of work to be done. Well done Ian, Phil & Co. I can't wait for the rest of this weekend for all the other info..

[Nature_Boy]

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Thing is...Its still freaking april....think back previous years and we wouldn't even have screenshots on April 24.....They have a full trailer available which says alot.

There is still plenty of time to adjust and fix certain things...

I have faith in IAN and PHIL....

Well said DeeJay. To be able to see a Madden trailer in April is a first. Like you said, it used to be what June before we would ever see a screenshot. Thanks to Ian, Phil, Donny and the rest of the Madden 10 for all the updates you have given us so far. Keep up the great work.

[Madwolf]

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After looking at the video again I'm really impressed with the OL/DL interaction, it looks fantastic, and outside of the animations that aren't so perfect, many of the others just look sick. Watching Fitzgerald run the route at the end is awesome, it looks very natural.

[JAKEHB20]

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i'm very very impressed with the video.
i love the ol/dl interaction!
only gripe of the video is when Willie Parker breaks that tackle he comes out slow but then hits full speed really fast. they need to tweak that a little bit.
everything else looks amazing.

[Chutney]

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The OMG people were going to Omg no matter what. after seeing the ronnie brown screens I was really excited. This video has lowered my expectations. Graphically it's nothing new, player models may have gotten worse, they all look stumpy not like athletes..what happened to the new Qb dropback, it looks the same. Animations are not fluid. Night lighting is still too dark. The wii running looked better. Just dissapointed right now. Between The devs and the 8 community members I was expecting to be blown away. Sadly, and i know it's just a trailer and still early 2k still looks more advanced and smoother.