EA Sports' Game Changer Jake Stein was able to go to EA Tiburon and get his hands on Madden NFL 12 as well as give some impressions on the gameplay.
Quote:
"The very first thing that jumps out to me when playing Madden NFL 12 is the enhanced tackling system. The central gameplay team gave themselves a goal at the beginning of the development cycle: eliminate suctioning, warping, and sliding. The way this goal was achieved can be summed up in one sentence; collision doesn't take place until contact is actually made between ball carrier and defender. This can be felt in multiple aspects of the game from how the O-line and D-line interact, to wide receivers diving for balls that they would normally just speed up to catch, but most of all, you feel this with tackling."
Custom playbooks online= a playbook full of all money plays in this years game.
Hopefully the defensive upgrades are as good as advertised or I'll be skipping online play once again if i pick this game up.
That's my biggest fear because everybody will run to the madden youtube videos find every last glitch play put it in one playbook and be close to unstoppable.