Madden NFL 11 Video: Ravens vs. Titans Gameplay

[bigsmallwood]

I am convinced that they just don't get it. QB's on ice? What game is this? Why has this still not been addressed? The ESPN/NFL License and all we get is EA Sports confusing intros to the game? WOW! This is setting up to be an epic disappointment. As usual ALL TALK, and no progression. The best thing to happen to the football franchise is when they took away the Turbo button, which works quite well.

Why the disjointed replays? Odd angles?#$% Oh boy.

[TheWatcher]

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I am trying to get excited for Madden 11, but its just not happening. There have been no big features announced. The biggest news so far has been Gus Johnson. I thought he would be a big upgrade over Hammond, but the videos have not shown it. If anything, he sounds like an excited Tom Hammond, thats it.

The Boldin TD was just terrible. He was way too late with the comments. He said, "He comes down with it..." after Boldin had started celebrating. He should have started that line mid catch animation. Then he said, "Touchdown!" after Boldin's celebration. He should have said that when Boldin started celebrating.

I saw another delay in commentary on a running play. The ball had been handed off already and a tackle was taking place when Gus finally said something along the lines of, "He hands the ball off" or "He runs with it". He should have said, "Young takes the snap, hands it off to Johnson, and Johnson is taken down after a short gain of 3." We should hear the commentary during the play, not after.

Also, the pass from Young to Scaife was out of sync too. He comments on the catch too late if I remember correctly, then 3 seconds after he is knocked out of bounds we hear Gus say, "He's knocked out of bounds..." Then it takes him 2 more seconds to say, "At the 15 yard line".

EA needs to rethink how they write their scripts. As it stands now, nobody could come in and make it sound right. Peter and Dan from 2k would sound terrible with the way EA does their commentary.

They have professional writers though *(long dramatic pause)*...

This is a disaster. They have a major QA problem with these things. As I listened to this video, I was hoping it was some kind of prank and all of a sudden a clown would bust through the video and yell "GOTCHA!" and then the real audio would play. Well, I've now watched this video several times, and sadly, no clown

That commentary is bad... it just sounds like Hammond's poorly written lines with the same empty holes and bad timing, except with Gus's voice. If I were Gus, I'd be very angry that they did this to me. And did you hear how he announced that first down play at :40? LOL. "Knocked outta bounds... at the fifteen" The Audio Team seriously left that clip in? He sounds like he's about to fall asleep. They butchered the man. Just the way his commentary at the opening sounded made you quickly realize that this was about to be bad. He sounds worn-out and disconnected. Who is QA'ing this stuff? Is anyone actually QA'ing this stuff? I mean that seriously, that's a real question... is anyone actually QA'ing the audio? If so, explain to me how there are so many bad clips getting through?

... No commentary to announce the person dropping back? No ID on the handoff? Really? REALLY? Surely, professional writers who've watched at least one game of football on TV would've noticed gaping holes like that and spoke up about it, right? How could they not?

If you can manage to make the most exciting broadcaster in football sound like a generic bore, it's over. Nothing can save you.

To add on, it looks like they did nothing with post-play movements. Nothing. It looks like the same mess, untouched. That's ridiculous. They've gotta be kidding.

... and that kicking meter is hideous.

This all just looks and sounds like a bust. I can't believe this is the game. I don't even wanna hear "maybe next year". Those three words are nothing more than brainwash. They're never going to get these things right. It's over. I'm looking at next generation now.

[MrSimCity]

I'll be uploading more gameplay footage later on today. I chose not to comment on the commentary in the impressions I wrote up last night because it was too loud to hear most of it. However, from the little I heard, it seems like even Gus Johnson fell victim to the formulaic commentary style we've come to know from Madden. This could show more than ever that it's all about the game script as opposed to the announcer. Don't get me wrong, it sounds better certainly, but hoped for more fluid play-by-play and haven't heard much of that yet.

[Valdarez]

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So much for my commentary hopes. Playing Madden is like going to a wake. A few words are said, followed by moments of silence and contemplation.

EAAnthony Quote: "How do you fill all that time" (in reference to commentary)
Valdarez: "Banter Anthony. Banter" *sigh*

[Valdarez]

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If you can manage to make the most exciting broadcaster in football sound like a generic bore, it's over. Nothing can save you.

Madden 11, featuring Gus Hammond! Seriously, how did they manage to turn Gus Johnson into Hammond? That takes some serious skill there.

[PocketRocket]

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And just how long should THAT take? Ian has painted himself into a bit of a corner. By saying they focused on gameplay this year that gameplay better knock the socks off of everyone, otherwise it will be an epic fail and Ian might be outta work.

PastaPadre's early impressions are that he's not been impressed with it and is enjoying NCAA much more. That doesn't sound very hopeful.

They have painted themselves in a corner, by stating the focus was on game-play alone, I'm not arguing that. I just prefer that they refrain, as they seem to have done, from adding any new features( some would call them gimmicks) and focus on correcting the issues at hand. It won't be an epic fail if the game-play doesn't knock everyone's sock off. I hope it does, but let's be real about this. They've been dissappoining us for six years now; I'm not saying that Madden 11 is going to be a dissappointment, I just don't suspect that heads will start rolling if it is.

[o Mass Murda o]

nothing makes me wanna buy this game this year...AT ALL!!! i truly hope the sales speak for how little the game was changed from madden 10. honestly it looks like the only sales they should earn are from those who never took the chance on madden 10. we all know better tho cuz ppl will buy regardless....but i hope its drastically lower to show EA what a lackluster job they did this year. that gameplay is not groundbreaking enough to warrant a total abandonement of offline and poorly constructed online franch.

man that VY skating outta the pocket looked awful...i cant lie. i never really complain about skating and thought most ppl were pissing n whining a lil too much, but on that rollout, he looks like the roadrunner's feet. moving quick while hovering the ground. it looked ok until after the fake handoff then the user took over and it went to skating immediately with no planting or weightshifting to move to the right. madden 10's wasnt near this bad and they had an actual bounce and plant on the last step of the dropback.

ah i just dont care anymore....its so obvious EA doesnt have the want or the will to truly push the freaking envelope as other genres and even those in the sports genre, even inside their own company are doing...fifa, nhl. time to shift my attention to the ncaa forums, for once.

[HealyMonster]

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Man, I am one disappointed cat. I know,I know. By now I should not be getting my hopes up for Madden, but I really thought something would shake out. I thought Gus Johnson would make a difference, I thought maybe they added better presentation, I just thought that there would be something I could cling to to make me play this game.

Gus Johnson sounds just like Tom Hammond, and while I tend to be a lot more picky about things than the average dude here, I dont see anyone arguing that. Which is sad. It literally took like 20 seconds of gameplay to basically render their biggest thing worthless. LOL. I wonder how this will effect his career. He doesn't want like the NFL network using Madden and showing his commentary, noone will hire him lol.

Presentation is essentially the same. Same stupid overlays "Bo Scaife caught 2 passes today averaging 24 yards" I have been watching the NFL for 28 years andf I have never seen that overlay. Possibly towards the end of the season when talking about yards per game or something, Madden shows it after every other play. WTF.


These guys have issues, I mean these jokers stated thatlast year "They just threw cut scenes in there to be there with no rhyme, reason, or purpose. Now, I obviously have an issue with them saying that outright, but OK. Lets not go there. What does that say for this year when its the same crap? It doesn't look like they even touched presentation. I saw 0 new overlays, the same crap happens when you kick a field goal and the camera changes just as the ball goes in, I mean this is literally like the twilight zone or something.

[ch46647]

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Man, I am one disappointed cat. I know,I know. By now I should not be getting my hopes up for Madden, but I really thought something would shake out. I thought Gus Johnson would make a difference, I thought maybe they added better presentation, I just thought that there would be something I could cling to to make me play this game.

Gus Johnson sounds just like Tom Hammond, and while I tend to be a lot more picky about things than the average dude here, I dont see anyone arguing that. Which is sad. It literally took like 20 seconds of gameplay to basically render their biggest thing worthless. LOL. I wonder how this will effect his career. He doesn't want like the NFL network using Madden and showing his commentary, noone will hire him lol.

Presentation is essentially the same. Same stupid overlays "Bo Scaife caught 2 passes today averaging 24 yards" I have been watching the NFL for 28 years andf I have never seen that overlay. Possibly towards the end of the season when talking about yards per game or something, Madden shows it after every other play. WTF.


These guys have issues, I mean these jokers stated thatlast year "They just threw cut scenes in there to be there with no rhyme, reason, or purpose. Now, I obviously have an issue with them saying that outright, but OK. Lets not go there. What does that say for this year when its the same crap? It doesn't look like they even touched presentation. I saw 0 new overlays, the same crap happens when you kick a field goal and the camera changes just as the ball goes in, I mean this is literally like the twilight zone or something.

Agreed, I just dont know what to say. I am usually very optimistic when it comes to Madden but there is just nothing anybody can say to defend this effort. The game and presentation look nearly identical to Madden 10. It looks like the Tiburon team just does not have what it takes to make a good football game (except for the graphics). EVERY aspect of the game other then the graphics are light years behind other sports games, including games within EA with smaller development teams in NHL and FIFA.

[splff3000]

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These guys have issues, I mean these jokers stated thatlast year "They just threw cut scenes in there to be there with no rhyme, reason, or purpose. Now, I obviously have an issue with them saying that outright, but OK. Lets not go there. What does that say for this year when its the same crap? It doesn't look like they even touched presentation. I saw 0 new overlays, the same crap happens when you kick a field goal and the camera changes just as the ball goes in, I mean this is literally like the twilight zone or something.

lol, I was thinking this very same thing as I was reading through the posts lol.

[RGiles36]

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Presentation is essentially the same. Same stupid overlays "Bo Scaife caught 2 passes today averaging 24 yards" I have been watching the NFL for 28 years andf I have never seen that overlay. Possibly towards the end of the season when talking about yards per game or something, Madden shows it after every other play. WTF.

I can understand everything you said aside from this paragraph and the bolded. For one, M10 barely had any real stat banners last year. You often got that little pop-in within the score hub to tell you that you're linebacker had 2 tackles (d'oh!) but there were little to no stat banners. And the banners that did show usually gave us something useless like the history of the franchise.

That said, though I haven't seen a lot of gameplay to check the sequencing, I'm happy to see stat banners. I hope that they are frequent so that I'm not having to press pause to get an idea of how my QB/RB/WR are performing.

I do wonder why EA/Tiburon went with a sentence-structure for their stat updates i.e. "Bo Scaife has 2 catches and averaging 24 yards". Most if not all broadcasts break stats down a little less wordy:

Catches Yards TD
2 24 0

...or something to that effect. That's what I wanted to see .

[XtremeDunkz]

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I may be in the minority here, but I see that as a good thing. What good is it to add new features when the features added in the previous version, Madden 10, aren't firing on all cylinders ? It seems as if the focus,for Madden 11, is correcting the current flaws, and fleshing out the vision that they, Tiburon, had for Madden 10.

that would be fine if the gameplay really looked greatly improved; sadly it looks like minor updates at best.

[Victory23]

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Only thing I can say that's different is that the game moved with a little more flow.

Can't really see any changes.

[XtremeDunkz]

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yeah the sentences in the stat banners don't make any sense, really bothered me last year. Why do they always try to change everything to make it "their way" its not what the people want.

[XtremeDunkz]

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on another note though the graphics look amazing......guess that is a plus...

But I will still be there at midnight...because I am part of the problem.