[SweetBabyJebus]

Quote: Originally Posted by bichettehappens

Yeah, it's the analysis portion where football becomes much more difficult and where I think a lot of the awkward silence resides. There are so many things that can go right/wrong leading amongst the interactions of the 22 players on the field that it would take extremely extensive program to cover them accurately and fluidly. Right now they show us a replay post-play and say nothing a majority of the time, or it's a very brief and generic statement. Hopefully they are working to improve this, whether this year or next We should get a good idea on June 4th just how far they've come with commentary improvements so far.

The bolded is what i agree with. The problem is that what we have seen from Madden isnt analysis, its gameplay commentary and its not getting the job done. And its not because its not as detailed as 'JPdavis82' would have you believe...

heres an example



gameplay commentary highlight 1

- "Second Down and 10"
- "blitz"
- "down the sideline"
- "Nelson with the leaping grab and its good"

gameplay commentary highlight 2

- *balls hiked* "........"
- "thrown again, its a deep ball"
- "its Marshall..."
- "Has the catch and the touchdown!!!"

and so on and so forth... i think the point is clear, specificity and emotion are the problem not some unrealistic level of detail expectation. NFL 2k5 had emotion and detail even if it happened to be patchy.