[beastwork]

visually the game is noticeably better than madden 10. Animations look a lot smoother as well. However i still get that skating feeling when I watch the players fly around. that's a cosmetic flaw in my mind and doesn't bother me quite that much.

Gus Johnson adds nothing to the game. hearing his voice didn't make me enjoy the game any more. side note, there is play by play and then there is color commentary. Gus oversteps his bounds. Collinsworth was great last year as the "color" guy and now feels very uninspired.

playing against the computer really makes it difficult to determine if flat issues and man alignment functionality have been fixed. Man defense however did feel a little more effective in the demo.

Kick meter is wack. There is no difficulty or challenge there.

I don't like game flow. Now that i've tried it out, it absolutely feels like "ask madden" 2.0. Now maybe i missed something but I thought gameflow will be almost like me having a coaches card for down and distance situations. seems like game flow is designed to let me build the coaches card but does not allow me to choose my own plays. It did speed my game up but I'm not sure I want to play the game that way. takes the strategy out of the game and thats what football is supposed to be about.

I will most likely pass on this game for a couple reasons. #1 I feel like i wasted my money last year 2. I can't see enough improvement in the demo to warrant a back to back purchase 3. the game was just boring to me. Maybe i'm just not into madden anymore but i didn't really have much fun playing the demo