Madden NFL 11 to Redefine Football with Simpler, Quicker and Deeper Experience

[gamerk2]

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Why do some people on here keep assuming madden crew is not focusing on franchise mode. Just because they have not mention nothing about franchise mode doesn't mean they have not worked on it this year. Every part of the game has a department working on it. Josh Looman works on Franchise mode. It ain't like Looman just gets up and walk away to another departmnet and work on something else. I'm sure Josh and his small crew is doing their best to focus on both offline and online franchise mode. We have 4 months until madden is released. Plenty of time for blogs. Don't worry so much. But overall it is nice to see them doing alot for madden this year. Can't wait until the trailer tonight.

Because they haven't worked on it since they nerfed it back in 2006? And Superstar is beyond repair at this point...

[PantherBeast_OS]

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Worrying? No, just believing it when we see it. And what we're seeing right now is a bullet-point titled "Deeper" with the words "enhanced ONLINE functionality". Too bad "franchise" isn't in there.

Pointing out the fact that the word "franchise" isn't in the marketing right now isn't worrying, it's calling it like we see it, i.e., if they're not pimping franchise mode in their marketing text, then franchise ain't getting a lot of attention this year.

Notice that I didn't say franchise isn't getting ANY attention this year; just that if it isn't getting a lot of emphasis in the marketing plan, history shows it isn't getting a lot of emphasis period.

Their past performance hasn't earned my blind faith yet. If they have your blind faith, more power to you. But your faith is no more legitimate than other people's dubiousness, so live and let live.

Well I know how you feel. Since madden has come the next gen console. Franchsie mode has been quite poor. The last madden I played with a deep franchise mode was madden 07 ps2. When it had owner mode in it. But I feel madden 10 was a good starting point for Josh and his crew with offline franchise mode. In the blog from last year he point out to us and said don't expect for HC 09 suddenly fall into madden. Josh had to rebuild franchise mode in madden 10 from the ground on up. It is going to take a few years for him to really get madden offline franchise deep once again. It just take time my friend. People just need to give him time to get out a blog on what he has done for this year franchise both online and offline. I just see it is way to early to judge until we have gotten a blog on this. If it was july and still no mention of offline franchise then I would question it. But since it is still late april. I'm not jumping to conclusion But dude like I said before I love offline franchise just as much are more then anyone on here. But it is to early to scream foul play on this one and say EA doen't care about offline franchise mode. They are trying to focus on all aspects of madden this year. It just takes time for them to write up the blogs and put them out. If I could have been a CD person this year. One of my main focus would have been about offline franchise mode. But right now the only thing we can do is wait and see what happens.

[PantherBeast_OS]

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Funny, a lot of these items comming out about Madden seem to have been taken from Backbreaker (analog controls, momentum, etc).

Funny what some competition can do! Too bad I have no interest until EA redoes the engine from scratch, as Madden is old tech now.

Backbreaker has nothing to do with EA doing all this stuff with locomtion this year. I'm getting BB just like anyone else is in June. But I don't feel like EA had nothing to worry about. They was doing this to get caught up with the times. EA for the past few years has been trying eveything to make madden moves more real looking. But I just feel like you are saying BB had something to with EA redoing both NCAA and Madden with a new locomotion engine just to keep up with BB. I feel it was not the reason. But I do respect yours and everyone else opinion on that subject. But I do feel that BB is not the reason for EA doing all this for ncaa 11 and madden 11 this year. But bro before say no about getting ncaa are madden 11. Please try the demo.

[poster]

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The press release is very vague on Game Flow, so I am going to be even more vague. I will say that I like the idea a lot. I used Game Flow with the Patriots and after getting sacked on 1st down, game flow called a draw play just like the Patriots would. After gaining 7 yards and facing a 3rd and 7, Game Flow called a screen Pass to Kevin Faulk like the real Patriots would. Authentic and situational. I'll ask if there is anything else I can say and hope I didn't say too much already.

I think this idea will be pretty cool if the AI is smart enough and each team will have their own unique style. The Brees interview sounded promising in regards to this, so hopefully the final implementation is solid.

Also hope it would tie into your team in franchise mode somehow in the event you change style based on personnel after a period of years.

[Jukeman]

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Assuming the comment about franchise mode was towards me...

Like some one said, seeing is believing, I cannot believe iton faith...

Not to be harsh but only thing upgraded last year for franchise mkde was the presentation, I guess you can call that a step in the right direction but IMO, the The Tony Bruno Show was just as good as '10's effort...

Madden franxhise mode was taking steps in the right direction back in 07... Heh, It was in the right direction in 99...So people have a legit reason not to believe without facts...I think Carl Sagan would agree...

[DIESEL]

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'Simpler: Call plays like an NFL coach with ease using an all-new play-calling system, GameFlow, which executes an authentic, situational game plan for you."

Isn't this what "Ask Madden" was supposed to be doing?

[Triathlete_201]

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No, those were added in M10.

I don't remember the Lion's roar in Madden 2010.

[CreatineKasey]

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Faster games = very good.

I hope they get rid of the breaking huddle time and give the defense some way to pick their play faster after knowing the package of the offense. That's where a lot of time gets sucked up.

[Valdarez]

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'Simpler: Call plays like an NFL coach with ease using an all-new play-calling system, GameFlow, which executes an authentic, situational game plan for you."

Isn't this what "Ask Madden" was supposed to be doing?

Yep.

[Tengo Juego]

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Nike cleats!

[Valdarez]

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I don't remember the Lion's roar in Madden 2010.

I was being sarcastic. We were told they would be in the game. Then they weren't there, nor added with the patches.

[GiantBlue76]

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I was being sarcastic. We were told they would be in the game. Then they weren't there, nor added with the patches.

Oh come on! The most important thing is that chin straps and moving towels are in the game. That's all that matters! </sarcasm>

[RaiderKtulu]

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The press release is very vague on Game Flow, so I am going to be even more vague. I will say that I like the idea a lot. I used Game Flow with the Patriots and after getting sacked on 1st down, game flow called a draw play just like the Patriots would. After gaining 7 yards and facing a 3rd and 7, Game Flow called a screen Pass to Kevin Faulk like the real Patriots would. Authentic and situational. I'll ask if there is anything else I can say and hope I didn't say too much already.

That sounds like what I was afraid of. That's great for Superstar mode and for the CPU, but if I'm controlling a team and playing coach, I do NOT want the team running the same thing they run in real life. It's MY team. MY offense. It better not be mandatory, and we better have a large amount of customization available with it.

[grunt]

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Here is my take, until EA spend as much on the development of the game as they spend on marketing we will only get snail like improvement in the game.

[demstix]

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EA's business model is to overkill on the marketing side. I wish i knew how to embed data. I was looking at EA's income state from the annual report and the proof is in the pudding. marketing spending at EA has increased disproportionally comparted to R&D spending over the last 3 years. Not exactly sure how that translates to Madden specifically but that trend for the overall company says alot.