Maddens new animations are sweetness...



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Originally Posted by Daekwan /forum/post/0


On my part?


Exactly which part of that was actual gameplay..


This game will be on store shelves in less than 3 months..

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Thats supposed to be gameplay on instant replay.


The on your part comment stemmed from saying that you couldnt tell a difference between 07 and the new video. Those animations are far better showing the high and low tackles of the hit stick 2.0, and gang tackling. Throw in receiver controls and the boatload of recycled but new to next gen features and its overall a solid game. SO FAR.


Just as long as the kickers dont look like linebackers im cool with it...


Much improved over last year, complete garbage and was disastrous to the franchise....

I'm real excited about being able to break out of animations.


The worst part of previous Maddens was stuff like dropping back to pass and not being able to throw the ball away because you get sucked up into a sack animation. The QBs arm would move forward to pass then it would just stick to his hand and then the sack animation.


Also just getting bumped by a player and getting thrown to the ground. Now you can actually break from the animation into a new one and keep playing.


Also last years sideline passes were terrible. I guess now, when you throw to the sidelines, they wont just run out of bounds. They're actually aware of the sideline and will plant there feet and run...


So we're no longer controlled by the animations, we can actually control the players...lol


Looks fantastic.

Madden better be good this year... Or else it's back to TECMO Superbowl!!!

I sort of like the idea of having challenges in an NFL video game, but ulitmately it's a pretty absurd thing to include. Who are you appealing to with your challenge, some outside, impartial observer? No, it's the game, the same game that made the 'bad' call in the first place. If the game coding gets it wrong (eg. the game consideres a receiver to have both feet in even if the graphics indicate that part of one foot is over the line, so even if you are right to feel ripped off, the game sees it as both feet in and there's nothing to be done). Toburon's argument against having challenges for online play is that it would mean they would have to insert bad calls as part of the game for online play, and that smacks of unfairness to them. Personally, I think they go a little too far with some of their 'fair play' ideas (like, no weather online? No wind? Injuries 'off' for ranked games? BS all IMHO), but that's their thinking and you can't win that argument by claiming that calls the game thinks are right are actually bad calls, even if they are.


The video highlighted the new changes in the gameplay, particuarly gang-tackling and mid-air collisions, as well as some new reception animations/ reverse kinematics and such. There's pretty much nothing in that video that was part of the latest Madden game. I am personally most excited about the swing-pass/ running out of bounds fix and such type of break-out of animations thing, as that and the 'play-action = automatic sack' problem are my biggest pet peeves by far. Well, someday I'd like them to realize that in football we have strong and weak side linebackers, not left and right linebackers, or strong and free safeties, not left or right safeties (goodness I would just like the defense to line up right out of the huddle rather than me having to flip the play . . . ), or that receivers can line up outside the numbers on the wide side of the field in real life (in EA football games, formations are always the same no matter what hash the ball is on, and this is just wrong, and really hurts the ability to spread the field. . . 'don't get me started, if it's not one thing it's another. . . . ').


But, all that said, it is looking like the third year will be the charm for this and for NCAA. Someday it would be nice to have online leagues possible complete with injuries and trades, etc., but whatever.