Madden NFL 10 Blog: Playbooks and CPU Playcalling Improvements

[RogueHominid]

That's pretty dope. The offensive playcalling AI sounds very deep, and I'm impressed.

The defensive AI needs more love to keep pace with the offense, but this is a great start.

Nice work!

[JohnnyNutman]

wow, that actually sounds really good. it should have a pretty significant improvement over gameplay as well. if all the running/tackling etc. animations keep getting smoothed out then we r looking at a pretty sick game.

[jzal8]

Really really cool blog! I am excited to experience the new playcalling AI.

Any chance the giants have the any special blitz formations?

[Beauchal]

Better late than never I suppose...

I really don't get why everyone's excited over this. Oooooo Minny is gonna run the ball 62% of the time on first down cause they have AD and that's the EXACT percentage they run it in real life Ahhhhhhh...this game is so real it's like a simulation!

On one hand you gotta hand it to them for improving that aspect of the game and letting us know about it, but on the other hand it worries me that the BIG concerns are still a mystery.

Can't wait to get my hands on the demo, I really cannot wait. I think it will literally take me maybe five plays or less to determine if I'm gonna buy it.

[Von Dozier]

Seriously great news.

[Mofficial]

shweet. the more madden is like HC09 = the better the game.

[leo2k2ndc]

Cool if it works, I hope it has some kind of awareness when playing user controlled, because I hate money plays with the other 11 cpu controlled players not adjusting to the known situation ..

[Steelerlad777]

Looks fantastic.

If what they say works this edition of Madden could be tops..

What did it for me was this:

Quote:

With more and more NFL teams using the 3-4 as a base defense now (13 teams in Madden 10 will have a 3-4 base defense) we felt that it was important to continue to improve the functionality around the 3-4 and make it much more applicable to real life.

I know fans of those 13 teams (me especially considering I'm a Steelers fan) were asking a lot of questions about this. I know this blog is discussing the AI side of it, but AI also applies to 10 of you 11 players while playing on defense.

Looks great....