Madden NFL 25 Video Interview with Some Early Gameplay Shown (GotGame)

[FreAk47]

"Re-imagined versions of classic features"...a nice way of saying they added back stuff they should have never taken out, and we should be impressed by it. UGH.

[m1ke_nyc]

Didnt see any wrap up tackles. Guys are just running into each other for tackles sending eachother flying. Calvin Johnson manages to truck someone after a hurdle where he had no momentum left. sigh I really want this game to be good.

[MaddenSaints]

3:55, does not seem like a tackle at all. It seems like he just ran into him which was a huge problem in M13.

[jpdavis82]

FWIW I talked to Simfballcritic today and he said he didn't think the force impact seemed this overdone based on his time playing it. Hopefully they are still fixing this stuff and not just copping out with the WIP label.

[jWILL253]

That interviewer is a douche.

On-topic, the physics engine needs to account for the center of gravity in a player's body. As it stands, there are still instances where a player's body is obviously affected by physics, yet the player doesn't lose balance or fall...

[Mckinley Cash]

I like what they're doing, so I'm not going to bash on some of the stuff they've done. I think everything will be cleaned up and polished by release. I don't think the over-dramatic hits we're seeing will happen as much as we think; I think they may just be a poor choice of clips put together.

[Big FN Deal]

I am surprised nobody commented on the Ryan Kerrigan sack, I thought that looked good the way Force Impact or IE 2 effected the blocking RB and Kerrigan was able push him back to get the edge, to sack the QB. I also liked the realistic emotion/celebration of the defenders after those big hits. On the Patrick Willis hit, it doesn't seem like the usual big hit stick-fly backwards animation, towards the end you can see Willis do more of a wrap, to try to make it seem more like he hit and drove, needs work though.

That said I agree some of this stuff is over the top, especially the airborne truck/stiff arm stuff. It has been mentioned that for some reason EA thinks people want to see this stuff in trailers, so we shall see how it looks in E3 videos.

EDIT- Wanted to add that in that same Kerrign clip, Orakpo is in the right of the shot, starts to the outside, is blocked and seems to try to spin back inside. The downside to this is that he is not able to disengage from the blocker/blocking animation as soon as he spins free but at least he does do something besides stand there patty caking. Also the "heat seeker" tackling looked promising, aside from the moniker. Those Polamalu tackles, namely the attacking the ball carrier, taking out the ball carriers legs, I didn't notice in M13 and the last one by him, the high tackle, would have been a poor pursuit angle and likely a run by-follow behind the ball carrier-whiff, in M13. There are some promising and concerning things in this video, good post JP Davis.

[DeuceDouglas]

Still too many hits where either way one guy is basically hitting a wall. Big hits are cool but they aren't what makes defense fun IMO. Most of those big hits would look a hell of a lot better if the defender or ball carrier ran through the tackle/broken tackle instead of just stonewalling the guys as they fly backwards.

I would have preferred if the new 'heat-seeking tackling' was revised into "hug-seeking tackling" so that guys would wrap up 95% of the time. I was actually hoping they got rid of the hit-stick, but it appears they've enhanced it, and not in a good way.