[Valdarez]

The lack of momentum in Madden at times just makes the game feel and look so weird. In this video, at about 2:31 when Owens is tackled, there is a defensive player to the left of him who gets hit, there's a short delay, then he's magically thrown to the left matrix style. Just looks weird. Many of the jukes and animations after catches look the same way to me. Like they couldn't possibly happen, and they don't look fluid at all.

I hope next year they add in momentum/physics, and start working on an new animation / rendering engine that could ideally be ready by Madden '12 to address the missing frames and missing transition animations. I honestly feel the last one is going to be a tough sell internally, since they eat their own dog food (use the same engine across products/teams), and EA may just say what we have is 'good enough'.