Madden NFL 25 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360, PS3)

[R9NALD9]

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Very good point. I meant to mention that in my impressions. I loved the Madden 13 demo and was incredibly disappointed in the full game. I hope that it isn't the same this year.

Same here...put in more hours on the demo than the full game.

[SickDL]

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Is there even defence in this game? Its just like i thought it would be a broken tackle fest. Ill wait for the full game and tweek the sliders for a better game.

[kcsam]

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I play on PS3, so can't get an answer to these questions myself. Can anyone help with these questions?

• How are penalties? anyone see an offensive or defensive PI yet?
• I understand there's no coach mode in the demo, but if you don't touch the controller of the human QB, does the CPU allow him to scramble out of the pocket and actually run down field?

Thanks for the feedback.

[roadman]

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Thanks for the heads up about the end of game playcalling. That's huge.

Yes, it is, big time huge.

The game was tied with under 2 minutes remaining (me) Packers, driving towards the goal line. The Seahawks called two timeouts(and not at the automatic 1:01 mark) to stop the clock. They saved their third and last timeout for the offense. Crosby was lining up for the FG and I let the clock run with 3 secs left.

Seattle takes over with 26 seconds left and Wilson, on the first play, throws an Int. 18 seconds left and Packers kneel. The Seahawks didn't call the last timeout to stop the clock with 18 seconds left. Last year, they would have burned that last timeout, regardless.

Also, in the second half, Wilson passed on 3 1st downs, torching the defense. That didn't happen last year, either with the CPU.

Encouraging.

Not encouraging, commentary when Seattle had the ball with 18 ticks left. All they need to do is kneel.

[secondsolution]

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I play on PS3, so can't get an answer to these questions myself. Can anyone help with these questions?

• How are penalties? anyone see an offensive or defensive PI yet?
• I understand there's no coach mode in the demo, but if you don't touch the controller of the human QB, does the CPU allow him to scramble out of the pocket and actually run down field?

Thanks for the feedback.

In the first game I played there were no penalties. The second had two, one for fair catch interference and a face mask. Pretty much the same as every other year.

I'm not sure about your second question, but will try to find out later on.

[jpdavis82]

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This was taken from my what do you hope to see, expect to see, on Tuesday, thread. I must say other than the commentary being much improved, I feel like I knew exactly what to look for and got what I hoped for.

Hope to see: Much improved infinity engine, much improved run blocking, improved total control passing, much improved commentary, improved AI overall, footplanting better than NCAA 14 has. Overall impressed and can see true progress, boding well for the future as we transition into next gen.

[GisherJohn24]

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@xbandguy

is there a very slow option? I always play on that becuase my reaction time is terrible. haha

[wordtobigbird]

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I always wanted the hit stick to be a big reward for the gamer for timing it right. That's why I like Madden 10, I could put on a brutal hit stick and a lot of times I could get a fumble out of it. I hope the hit stick is more important like it used to be, it's a feature that I think they neglected last couple of years. Downloading demo now.

And for those whining about not having the demo, give us Gold guys some love, we gotta get something worthwhile for being gold! haha. Besides free full games of course.

They changed the mechanics of the hit stick. It seems to be move of a launch/dive now so you can aim and launch yourself instead of pushing the hit stick then running into the ball carrier before the hitstick window closed and you went into that failed animation. Now, as soon as you flick the stick you launch. I've still had them wrap up and not necessarily make big hits. it does feel better and with the CPU running awareness they can make you pay for flying around.

[secondsolution]

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I always wanted the hit stick to be a big reward for the gamer for timing it right. That's why I like Madden 10, I could put on a brutal hit stick and a lot of times I could get a fumble out of it. I hope the hit stick is more important like it used to be, it's a feature that I think they neglected last couple of years. Downloading demo now.

And for those whining about not having the demo, give us Gold guys some love, we gotta get something worthwhile for being gold! haha. Besides free full games of course.

Towards the end of my game against the Packers, I needed to get the ball back so I went all out with a hit stick. I hit Lacy pretty much square and running at full pace and forced a fumble. Was really satisfying, but I didn't recover the ball

[theranhog]

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First time in 17 years I won't be buying a football game. NCAA 14 imo plays a better game of football than M25. The players move stiff and robotic, still seeing canned animations and suction tackling. The players faces are god awful! The camera view at default is terrible also. What I don't understand is at least this gen the graphics have been OK. The graphics and presentation is horrible in this game. Looks like a dumbed down port. I watched videos of next gen Madden and the game play looks even worse!!

[Malcd9583]

This was taken from my what do you hope to see, expect to see, on Tuesday, thread. I must say other than the commentary being much improved, I feel like I knew exactly what to look for and got what I hoped for.

Hope to see: Much improved infinity engine, much improved run blocking, improved total control passing, much improved commentary, improved AI overall, footplanting better than NCAA 14 has. Overall impressed and can see true progress, boding well for the future as we transition into next gen.

So you don't care about the defense being horrific?

[DoubleRussia]

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2 questions

Are the Raiders in the demo?

Is the PS3 demo out yet?

[GisherJohn24]

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This was taken from my what do you hope to see, expect to see, on Tuesday, thread. I must say other than the commentary being much improved, I feel like I knew exactly what to look for and got what I hoped for.

Hope to see: Much improved infinity engine, much improved run blocking, improved total control passing, much improved commentary, improved AI overall, footplanting better than NCAA 14 has. Overall impressed and can see true progress, boding well for the future as we transition into next gen.

Madden 13 had a lot of silly animations (here and there) that sometimes just looked like puppets getting thrown around and it looked almost funny. I hope that was toned down and ironed out a bit. IF that is improved, I'll be happy most likely.

[GisherJohn24]

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Towards the end of my game against the Packers, I needed to get the ball back so I went all out with a hit stick. I hit Lacy pretty much square and running at full pace and forced a fumble. Was really satisfying, but I didn't recover the ball

Least it looked to be a satifying hit eh? It'd be too easy for fumble to occur on every good hit stick hit, but it's definitely nice to see that it might make a difference this year. Hopefully more fumbles will be the reward.

[BCJMU99]

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Any pics or videos folks can post? I'm at work