More Madden NFL 15 Details Revealed

[jmurphy31]

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Its annoying that NHL has details on their features and their game comes out after Madden. Not sure why EA has to be so secretive. Does it really help with sales

[jmurphy31]

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Looking at the NHL features this year gives me a SLIGHT glimmer of hope that we may see something special from Madden.

The NHL team is probably 1/8 the size of the Madden team and the features they are touting for NHL 15 are absolutely amazing.

I agree with this...Hopefully some of this makes its way to Madden

[Madwolf]

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Yeah, the NHL features this year are very exciting. Madden cannot be a let down this year with all the good news from Fifa and NHL.

[DeuceDouglas]

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Something I else I found interesting with the NHL15 features is the partnership with NBC sports. If that were to make it's way into Madden as well, that's ESPN and NBC. They've worked with CBS before. That just leaves Fox for a potential complete authentic broadcast presentation in terms of banners and overlays which would be awesome IMO.

[Aggies7]

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Something I else I found interesting with the NHL15 features is the partnership with NBC sports. If that were to make it's way into Madden as well, that's ESPN and NBC. They've worked with CBS before. That just leaves Fox for a potential complete authentic broadcast presentation in terms of banners and overlays which would be awesome IMO.

When it comes to banners I am shocked that all the major Networks don't want to allow their logo in the game. I'm not a business guy, but I would think the NFL/Madden and the Networks could come to an agreement to use each of their broadcast banners.

I would love to see at least two announce crews so every game doesn't feel the same.

[nejisan]

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I'm a little ticked off that we have more information on NHL15,especially considering that Madden launches first.

[roadman]

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I'm a little ticked off that we have more information on NHL15,especially considering that Madden launches first.

About another month at E3, you will probably be overwhelmed with information.

[DeuceDouglas]

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About another month at E3, you will probably be overwhelmed with information.

Exactly. And I wouldn't even say that they revealed more. I didn't really pay attention but I saw the trailer and the feature list of about five or six things. Not sure if they revealed more though. The trailer showed nothing just like Madden's and they announced a cover vote as well. They went a bit more in-depth into the features wording wise but more or less it was an identical 'reveal' of pretty much nothing.

I'd like to see some sort of "playbooks" like they've had in recent years leading up to E3 but I'm not really expecting it with the touting of 'transformation'. Makes me think that nothing will be released and they'll hold another big reveal at E3 much like they did with the IE. But aren't those always the questions aboard the hype train?

[mestevo]

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The Madden announcement could have been just as wordy as the NHL one and 99% of the replies in this thread would have still been written as-is.

[bucky60]

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The Madden announcement could have been just as wordy as the NHL one and 99% of the replies in this thread would have still been written as-is.

Possibly, Madden hasn't had the best track record. It would probably depend on the words in the Wordy announcement whether replies would be significantly different.

[SageInfinite]

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The Madden announcement could have been just as wordy as the NHL one and 99% of the replies in this thread would have still been written as-is.

This is true. Alot of people have gone into wait and see mode with Madden. Personally as much as I have been disappointed this past generation, Madden 25 on PS4 had just enough to keep me interested. I really want to see if they can harness the new power of these systems. I know Madden will never be the game I personally want it to be, but maybe it can be something I can enjoy more than this past gen. Just seems like Madden 25 on PS4 and Xbone was just a "let's get this out the door" port. This whole "transformation" talk has definitely got me interested.

One things for sure, if the bodies of these players are as accurate as the teaser, the animations definitely have to make the leap as well, because it will look even more ridiculous otherwise. One things for sure though, if they can get the animations as smooth looking as the celebration animations on the way to the end zone that they added for next gen, I'll be happy and surprised.

[mercalnd]

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I hope the dynamic halftime show has highlights from other games. I know posted this in NHL thread but it applies to EA Sports games across the board. There were highlights from other games while you were playing you game in NHL 94. The technology was available then and I imagine it can still be achieved.

Just my opinion.

Actually, back there were basically no visual assets. All they had to do was swap the uniform colors on canned highlight sequence. Nowadays, they'd have to load up a different stadium, a couple different uniforms, different player models (since players have different shapes and quite a few have actual faces now, etc) even if you are just applying all of these things to a canned highlight sequence. It could certainly be done but you'd basically have massive loading times before the highlights of each other game and again before getting back to your game.

[Tengo Juego]

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Something I else I found interesting with the NHL15 features is the partnership with NBC sports. If that were to make it's way into Madden as well, that's ESPN and NBC. They've worked with CBS before. That just leaves Fox for a potential complete authentic broadcast presentation in terms of banners and overlays which would be awesome IMO.

Add in multiple broadcast teams, and I'm swoon.

[GoodImmigrant]

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there are two features that would make this game a must buy for me.
1) Scouting mini-games. kinda like in ps2/xbox
-Eventually it would be nice to tie the results of the mini-games to the
draft stories. I like the Trey Wingo addition, but imagine him talking about pro-days and combine performances. (maybe i'm just brained washed by the two extra weeks before the draft)
2) Have coordinator hires bring their own scheme and playbook when hired.
-The best way to keep this feature from being just a change in the playbook would be for coordinators to have ratings. It would be like NCAA 14 but the boosts would be more situational rather than a permanent boost. So instead of getting a +3 strength across the board, it could be only at goal line stands if the coach has a good goal line stand rating.

[Aggies7]

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there are two features that would make this game a must buy for me.

1) Scouting mini-games. kinda like in ps2/xbox

-Eventually it would be nice to tie the results of the mini-games to the

draft stories. I like the Trey Wingo addition, but imagine him talking about pro-days and combine performances. (maybe i'm just brained washed by the two extra weeks before the draft)

2) Have coordinator hires bring their own scheme and playbook when hired.

-The best way to keep this feature from being just a change in the playbook would be for coordinators to have ratings. It would be like NCAA 14 but the boosts would be more situational rather than a permanent boost. So instead of getting a +3 strength across the board, it could be only at goal line stands if the coach has a good goal line stand rating.

I would love the mini games to test out draft picks. Or I would take a Senior Bowl