Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

[predsfan]

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Also I found the coordinator talk to be amusing and annoying before I found how to turn it off. It sounds if the plan was for someone to learn about football while playing the game. I understand that EA is trying to get more customers, maybe those not familiar with football, but it was so elementary and obvious.

Also I ran the Fake to the FB/Pitch to the HB and the coordinator told me to follow the fullback on the dive up the middle. D'oh.

[fatleg3]

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• Is it me or does it seem like the cpu breaks the first tackle almost 75% of the time. I even tuned the broken tackle slider down and they were still breaking the first tackle most of the time. I was playing with the jets and a colts lineman picked up a fumble and broke at least 5 tackles on his way to the endzone.

• Why does it seem like when the cpu runs the ball their is almost always a hole and if their isnt then 9 times out of 10 the rb will break a tackle and gain at least 4yrds anyway, but when I run the ball their is a defender sitting in the hole waiting for me or I am getting hit right after i get the handoff.

• Why cant you skip instant replay as soon as it comes up. You either have to watch the whole replay or watch most of it before it lets you skip it

• I turned off accl. clock but time was still being ran off after every play call

• I dont see why everyone is complaining about the strategy pad. It is so simple. Yea you will have to get use to it but it should only take about 1 game to and maybe not even that long. Its not like u have to memorize everything about it and every button

• Out of all teams why did the colts and jets win the fan vote. I know the colts have manning and all but their are far more entertaing teams to use on a demo where you can only play with 2 teams like the saints, chargers, vikings, pats, or even the titans but the colts aginst the jets are justn to boring to play with on a demo for me.

This all came on all-madden diff. but all in all the demo is pretty good. I just hope the brokin tackles are tuned down, and its you can actually have room to run the ball in the retail version. I dont see what eveyone cry and complain about. Would u rather play madden 11 or madden 95. Yea not much changed since madden 10 but 11 is still better.

[footballdude1971]

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Impressions:

BAD
1) commentary is horrible (it reminds of what EA did with the Tiger Woods series, they had a decent commentary then completely changed it for the worse)

2) Zoomed out view. Normally I'm a fan of seeing the entire field but the CAM is so far zoomed out that I can't tell who is who. My eye's literally can't see/focus on the whole field hence when I'm playing defense (or offense for that matter) I have no idea where the ball is going, who is open, I can't see the play develop, ect. In other words, it's so far zoomed out that your perifial vision is not in play. You can't be aware of what happening in the pocket and still look for open receivers. You have to focus on one or the other making passing an absolute guessing game.


GOOD
1) the control is super tight

2) graphics of course


Final analysis, it seems ok but if I can't change the cam I'll pass (on the game ) and stick with NCAA.

[nxt]

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My initial impression of the demo is that I enjoyed it. After reading all of the negative reviews I was almost ready to pull my pre-order from Amazon. Fortunately, I played it for myself and found that it isn't as bad as people are making it out to be. The locomotion feels fine. Running may be too easy on All-Pro, but has anyone tried to mess with the CPU sliders to make it a little harder? I haven't yet, but I will when I get home later. I don't have a problem with the strategy pad. Sure, we've got to memorize new buttons, but as they say, "it ain't rocket science." I like the kick meter better than using the RS stick, mainly because the way Madden/NCAA implemented the RS stick made the kicking game irrelevant because it was too easy. I haven't tried out GF or GP yet, so I have no comment on that. The best thing about it is EA left it as an option, and didn't ram it down our throats.

[MAHAM]

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Madden 11 playbooks are substantially smaller than Madden 10

I use the Colts and their offensive playbook every year. Something about their playbook on '11 didn't seem right to me, so I counted plays & formations from Madden '10. I left out special teams and goaline.

Heres what I found: Colts playbook for Madden 10 has 21 sets and 345 plays total

Colts playbook for Madden 11 has 13 sets with 216 plays total

Madden '10 has 8 more sets and 129 more plays. They also removed Shotgun Ace that was only found in the Colts playbook, one of my favorite sets.

[ThisIsReality]

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• Is it me or does it seem like the cpu breaks the first tackle almost 75% of the time. I even tuned the broken tackle slider down and they were still breaking the first tackle most of the time. I was playing with the jets and a colts lineman picked up a fumble and broke at least 5 tackles on his way to the endzone.

• Why does it seem like when the cpu runs the ball their is almost always a hole and if their isnt then 9 times out of 10 the rb will break a tackle and gain at least 4yrds anyway, but when I run the ball their is a defender sitting in the hole waiting for me or I am getting hit right after i get the handoff.

• Why cant you skip instant replay as soon as it comes up. You either have to watch the whole replay or watch most of it before it lets you skip it

• I turned off accl. clock but time was still being ran off after every play call

• I dont see why everyone is complaining about the strategy pad. It is so simple. Yea you will have to get use to it but it should only take about 1 game to and maybe not even that long. Its not like u have to memorize everything about it and every button

• Out of all teams why did the colts and jets win the fan vote. I know the colts have manning and all but their are far more entertaing teams to use on a demo where you can only play with 2 teams like the saints, chargers, vikings, pats, or even the titans but the colts aginst the jets are justn to boring to play with on a demo for me.

This all came on all-madden diff. but all in all the demo is pretty good. I just hope the brokin tackles are tuned down, and its you can actually have room to run the ball in the retail version. I dont see what eveyone cry and complain about. Would u rather play madden 11 or madden 95. Yea not much changed since madden 10 but 11 is still better.

1. Yeah, I turned it off as well and got a 5 second run off...

2. Probably because of off-season signings the Jets won the fan vote.

[K_GUN]

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Welcome to OS!


I'm reading your posts and getting the sense that you have a lot of anger towards EA.

in the post below, stating that if "blatent disregard.....is occuring then my actions will be much more stern and aggressive"...while that may work in a work-place (not mine) it has NO PLACE in a video-game forum.

perhaps OS is not the place for you.....just a suggestion

I totally agree however if the person that I keep giving constructive criticism to blatantly ignores my efforts for years and years it tends to gte a little frustrating. Also think of it this way, if I tell my people all the time do your job listen and account fr everybody's voice and you will find that you can do your job better, however if blatant disregard for the opinions of the people who matter (in this case the fans) is occurring then my actions will be much more stern and aggressive.

I just can't understand why they can't get Chris collinsworth and gus johnson in the same room and record fresh new stuff so it sounds like they are actually together. That kind of stuff insults me and it's been going on for years!

[fatleg3]

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Their is one thing I have a problem with though. When you audible you have to highlight the play you want. If you are playing a friend offline on the same console wouldnt they be able to see what you are doing or at least know what type of play you are audibling to?

[vch1212]

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I like the feel of the game bt commentating is killing me. Its like they dont care if it sounds like the guys are really in the booth together. And I like the idea of getting a lot of no name announcers (that wouldn't cost a lot) put together 12 announcing teams and sprinkle them in during the season. That way all games have different announcing teams like in real life.

We d not need name announcers just ones that sound like they are really there. If you get Chris and Gus together they can go back and forth and you can put those audio blocks in spots instead of copying and pasting each individually.

I mean don't have 1 or 2 sayings for the start of every game about the stadium their at, have a dozen for each venue. Record thousand of lines. its not difficult with todays technology.

[ryan36]

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Madden 11 playbooks are substantially smaller than Madden 10

I use the Colts and their offensive playbook every year. Something about their playbook on '11 didn't seem right to me, so I counted plays & formations from Madden '10. I left out special teams and goaline.

Heres what I found: Colts playbook for Madden 10 has 21 sets and 345 plays total

Colts playbook for Madden 11 has 13 sets with 216 plays total

Madden '10 has 8 more sets and 129 more plays. They also removed Shotgun Ace that was only found in the Colts playbook, one of my favorite sets.

Well, if they did shrink the playbook, they probably had a reason, I doubt most poeple used 300 some odd plays anyway...although on the surface, it seems like a bad call on EA's part, if true. They may have dumbed it down for the demo...

[AirLobo23]

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It seems like the biggest gripe with the demo is the strat pad. To the point where some are talking about not getting it because of it. Im blown away by that reasoning. Its not as if the strat pad doesn't work, you just have to get used to it. Before u know it will be like riding a bike. Like someone said earlier its not rocket science. Play more than 2 games before screaming that the sky is falling. I don't understand the outrage over a small correctable issue.

I for one didn't like it @ first only bcuz i didn't know how to use it. After practicing with it i now really like it. Maybe some never will, but at least give it a chance.

[vch1212]

Re: Madden NFL 11 Demo Available Now, Please Post Impressions Here

Welcome to OS!


I'm reading your posts and getting the sense that you have a lot of anger towards EA.

in the post below, stating that if "blatant disregard.....is occurring then my actions will be much more stern and aggressive"...while that may work in a work-place (not mine) it has NO PLACE in a video-game forum.

perhaps OS is not the place for you.....just a suggestion

Ok well put but doesn't it bother you that things tend to get ignored year in and year out? Doesn't it bother you that fans have been asking for features for years and they act like they can't hear anyone. Also It wouldn't be so bad except when I go online and see the leaders of madden team in videos talking about how they listen to us....Really?

[ODogg]

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MAHAM - Thanks for checking the playbooks, I suspected they were smaller and you confirmed my worst fears.

[MAHAM]

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Well, if they did shrink the playbook, they probably had a reason, I doubt most poeple used 300 some odd plays anyway...although on the surface, it seems like a bad call on EA's part, if true. They may have dumbed it down for the demo...

8 less sets is huge I think. 300 plays isnt much when you use the same playbook every game like I do. Alot of route combinations and concepts are similar in playbooks throughout formations and thats still the case.

[Skyboxer]

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Could the less plays be a demo thing maybe? Maybe when someone gets the game we'll know for sure.