Re: Madden NFL 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here
I threw a pass, WR jumped for it and it hit him straight in the numbers... and then went through him and out the numbers on the other side. Stuff like that isn't a death knell but it's still annoying. Also had a bunch of plays where the DB and WR overlap a LOT, like some sort of schizoid siamese twin.
I've also had the pro-tak experience where it's 4 guys mob the ball carrier and somehow all four guys just fall down and the ball carrier takes off. Before, you'd have had at least a couple shots at him, but now he can in one fell swoop break the tackles of half your team simultaneously and there's no one left to stop him.
One play (on pro), I forgot the controls changed and hit the bumper. My lineman jumps, falls down, spends 5 seconds getting back up, re-engages the defender, beats him, then runs over and tackles Eli. It was at the beginning of a quarter and the clock read 0:48 at the end. He impersonated a statue in the pocket for TWELVE SECONDS without passing it, scrambling, nothing. None of my other linemen could reach him in that 12 seconds either, it was a user-sack.
I'm not down on the game -- it looks miles better than any of the previous next-gen madden games. Just saying there's still plenty of room for improvement :-)
I love the slowed gameplay. I knew 09 was very not-fun for me and I think the speed was a large part of it. I would have never figured that out without playing the slower version though.
I threw a pass, WR jumped for it and it hit him straight in the numbers... and then went through him and out the numbers on the other side. Stuff like that isn't a death knell but it's still annoying. Also had a bunch of plays where the DB and WR overlap a LOT, like some sort of schizoid siamese twin.
I've also had the pro-tak experience where it's 4 guys mob the ball carrier and somehow all four guys just fall down and the ball carrier takes off. Before, you'd have had at least a couple shots at him, but now he can in one fell swoop break the tackles of half your team simultaneously and there's no one left to stop him.
One play (on pro), I forgot the controls changed and hit the bumper. My lineman jumps, falls down, spends 5 seconds getting back up, re-engages the defender, beats him, then runs over and tackles Eli. It was at the beginning of a quarter and the clock read 0:48 at the end. He impersonated a statue in the pocket for TWELVE SECONDS without passing it, scrambling, nothing. None of my other linemen could reach him in that 12 seconds either, it was a user-sack.
I'm not down on the game -- it looks miles better than any of the previous next-gen madden games. Just saying there's still plenty of room for improvement :-)
I love the slowed gameplay. I knew 09 was very not-fun for me and I think the speed was a large part of it. I would have never figured that out without playing the slower version though.
I called the sneak, the ball snaps and my center bails on me! He was lined up dead on with the nose tackle but for some reason he ran to the right leaving me standing on an island facing head to head with the nose tackle! All I could do is forge ahead and try to pick up the few inches I need and to my surprise I charged right through the nose tackle. Then, from my right side the safety comes flying over and I bulled right past him to green pastures (everyone else was behind me now involved in the pile-up.) Unfortunately I went into a "trip" animation and ended up falling to the ground. I looked close at the replay and found out the reason I was able to pull off two broken tackles is because both defenders tried to strip the ball - they were not concerned about tackling me. 
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