Madden 09 Uniform Blog

by pastapadre
Posted June 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Something that has been taken note of over the past few days is the immediate response to community suggestions. Things like toning down the camera flashes, adding a kick return play with a single returner back, making the weather affect play more, and turning off the passing icons when a QB drops back too far all appear as though they may be acted upon for Madden 09 despite the time constraints.

One topic that has been discussed not only lately, but over the past few years has been uniform inaccuracies. This year they made it a point to improve in that area, bypassing the official style guides supplied by the NFL and going off of video and pictures of what the teams wore last year. When screenshots started coming out fans still noticed some things were off. The Cowboys helmet star was too big, the Chiefs were missing their AFL patch and the numbers were on jersey shoulders not the sleeves, the Steelers had single digit numbers off to the side of the stripe on their helmet instead of on the stripe, and the Ravens and 49ers needed black shoes. That was just the first batch of feedback EA received.

Matt Read, a designer for Madden, has posted up a blog detailing some of the fixes that were made based on community feedback. Click here to check out the blog and corresponding screenshots displaying the corrected uniforms.

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Todd

Yeah the uniform thing needs to be fixed. Its getting ridiculous Im a Bengals fan and they finally included our alternate orange jersey, and the all black uniform. But they still left out our all white uni. Then I go and look at the other teams and low and behold the Titans have like 8 different uniforms combos? WTF? Do the guys at Madden have something against certain teams or what? It wouldn't be that hard to figure out all the different uniform combos. Why don't they just call each team in person and ask them what all they wear? I don't know it doesn't seam that complicated to me.

Kevin

can you create jerseys in Franchise mode?

Eric

Pasta, will the PANTHERS alternate uniforms be fixed this year??? In Madden '08 the game had them wearing silver on silver socks (clearly a mistake).. it's such an obvious mistake I couldn't imagine EA missing it again, but please put my mind at ease and tell me the socks have been fixed to the correct BLACK socks???

Thanks!!

ZACK

PASTA how did you like superstar mode? Was it better then last season?

Dmitry

not a rams fan or anything but did they fix there home jersey cuz they have gold pants not white pants plz anyone get bak at me ASAP

Nicky G 101

Bears White tops White bottom Uniforms are they gunna happen or not??????????????

Ill Will From College Hills

[quote comment="23774"][quote comment="23772"][quote comment="23770"]Pasta,

Will you be able to use alternate unis when playing online this year???[/quote]

Not this year, but it will be for sure in 2010.[/quote]

This is one of the disappointments about Madden 09. A lot of positive strides are being made this year, but this really shouldn't be an issue anymore.

People are getting excited about the accuracy of the uniforms, yet the alternate ones don't carry over to online. It's a shame. They would add more variation to online play. It would be fun to mix it up from time to time.[/quote]

EXACTLY I PLAY HEAD TO HEAD OCCASIONALLY BUT THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF XBOX LIVE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD EA CAN I GET SOME UNIS ONLINE HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO IMPLEMENT THAT!!

zhawk18

I hope they fix the logo on the seahawks helmet, and not just the classic one. The logo on the helmet that goes with the home and away jerseys doesn't wrap all the way around. And it should. Neon green shoes and gloves for the Hawks' would be awesome. They have included the Vikings classic jersey just like the Niners, right ???

Details

[quote comment="23772"][quote comment="23770"]Pasta,

Will you be able to use alternate unis when playing online this year???[/quote]

Not this year, but it will be for sure in 2010.[/quote]

This is one of the disappointments about Madden 09. A lot of positive strides are being made this year, but this really shouldn't be an issue anymore.

People are getting excited about the accuracy of the uniforms, yet the alternate ones don't carry over to online. It's a shame. They would add more variation to online play. It would be fun to mix it up from time to time.

darren

[quote comment="23770"]Pasta,

Will you be able to use alternate unis when playing online this year???[/quote]

Not this year, but it will be for sure in 2010.

Ill Will From College Hills

Pasta,

Will you be able to use alternate unis when playing online this year???

jesse

Hey Pasta, love the job you do here and all you are doing to help Madden improve. Being that they listen to alot of what you say, I have an idea to try and help glitchers for the future. It's off topic from this blog, but anyway.

Even though they will probably fix the problems of last year, just in case of unseen glitches, here is an idea I posted on the EA Madden Community site.

How about EA sets up a complaint department for glitchers to be turned in, and if you get so many complaints on your account, it is locked down or banned from online, or wiped clean so they have to start their records over again so they have nothing to show for their glitching efforts. And it might even force the XBOX users to have to pay for a new subscription since their login name would be locked out of online play. Put it in the disclaimer that if you are found to have cheated online, you are out! For Good, if it's possible.

We can't let a few ruin the whole online experience. I know the guys at EA are trying to put out a good game, and improving online play this year, but if nobody will play it, there is no sense in improving it!!!

* Thanks to EA for listening to the community thus far, and lets keep up the good work!

pete

HEY PASTA JUST WONDERING IF THEY UPDATED THE ROOKIES. ON THE SCREENSHOTS AFTER THE DRAFT SOME OF THE FACES WERE REPETATIVE. I READ YOUR COMMENT ON HOW YOU WERE PLAYING AGAINST THE EAGLES AS CHRIS LONG. HIM AND JAKE LONG BOTH LOOKED THE SAME ON THE SCREENSHOT. DID THEY UPDATE THE FACES ON THE ROOKIES LIKE CHRIS LONG?

Bumble14

"I think he’s probably referring to getting down errors and corrections as the year progresses so that they can be fixed for 2010. I don’t know if they would do uniform fixes in a patch."

Why are we always having to wait until the next year for features we had in the last generation of games?
Just watch, next year they will be telling us we will have to wait until 2011 to get everything right because of a change to player models, etc.

Same thing every year since we got into this generation of consoles- and it's getting old.

Bumble14

What is so hard about adding patches to jerseys? Honestly, is it some sort of impossible code or something?

cocobee

Pasta,
Can you give us a list of the throwbacks they added this year?

Aaron

[quote comment="23729"]the uniforms give me a break you should work on the sidelines this year they sucked every other year[/quote]

When I play, I hardly notice the sidelines. More graphic detail/animation on the sidelines would probably take away space that can be used for the actual gameplay.

Aaron

Coming into the summer I was absolutely not getting Madden.. 100% changed with EA team taking criticism and adjusting the game. They are really doing a good job (still have to play the game though) and for once I'm not bitter

47

As a Panthers fan, I hope they fixed our alt unis because they were WAYYYY off last yr. I'd imagine theyre fixed I mean they couldn't get any worse and the mistakes were EXTREMELY obvious.

Dawson's Creek

EA seems to have it really together this year. I admit I wasn't even going to buy Madden 09 after 3 boring years of Madden on 360 but I don't think I can pass up on 09 after all this amazing news.

Nicky G 101

Are the bears going to have there white jerseys with white pants combo because devin hester looks sick in that combination

george

the uniforms give me a break you should work on the sidelines this year they sucked every other year

Details

Based on a recent Gamestop photo, the Miami Dolphins logo on the helmet appears to be too big. I know this has been a simple, correctable error with other teams.

Please double-check this, EA. I posted some pictures at the OS forum. Thanks!

xxtruthxx

[quote comment="23704"][quote comment="23692"]NFL Socks Rules:

One of the more common violations, along with jerseys.
Players are issued a two-piece sock. One part is white, and the other part is the team color like blue for the Rams. If a player has only the white or only the blue showing, that's a violation.
The white sock, worn over the full-length stockings in team colors, must extend to the midpoint of the lower leg. Stockings must meet the pants below the knee.[/quote]

The Nfl has so many stupid rules and this is one of them.[/quote]

well the patriots in madden 08 should have gotten sactions up and down the field for their away "all white" socks

pat

oh sorry ddint mean to say s#@t thats my bad

JuanPablo

[quote comment="23640"][quote comment="23638"]If they were to ever include the neon gloves for the Seahawks, this game would be well worth over $60 dollars to me.

Didn't you add that in your list of uniform tips Pasta?[/quote]

Yeah, but I don't think they were going to be able to get colored gloves in this year. We'll push for that next year cause I think it would be cool to see the team specific gloves. Plus I'd love to see the neon green shoes that Walter Jones, Seneca Wallace, and Julian Peterson wear.[/quote]
Yea I would like to see my Dolphins orange gloves as well. Definitely not a deal breaker for me, but would be a nice addition.

Tommy

If Matt Read is responsible for these jersey debacles, he should be fired. Period. Nobody on planet earth could keep their job with as many mistakes have been with the uniforms over the years.

They can't even get the damn nameplates right. How can you screw up on nameplates? What the hell?

And then all the uniform errors... just pathetic. Someone needs to get the ax for this crap since it's been going on for years now.

Zack

[quote comment="23692"]NFL Socks Rules:

One of the more common violations, along with jerseys.
Players are issued a two-piece sock. One part is white, and the other part is the team color like blue for the Rams. If a player has only the white or only the blue showing, that's a violation.
The white sock, worn over the full-length stockings in team colors, must extend to the midpoint of the lower leg. Stockings must meet the pants below the knee.[/quote]

The Nfl has so many stupid rules and this is one of them.

Beau

[quote comment="23688"]pasta pacman was just reinstated into the nfl will he be in madden??????[/quote]

why put that trash in when he'll probably need to be taken out via patch within the first month or so of release because of more probable legal troubles that he's sure to get into

:)

kingmack

NFL Socks Rules:

One of the more common violations, along with jerseys.
Players are issued a two-piece sock. One part is white, and the other part is the team color like blue for the Rams. If a player has only the white or only the blue showing, that's a violation.
The white sock, worn over the full-length stockings in team colors, must extend to the midpoint of the lower leg. Stockings must meet the pants below the knee.

Tengo

I like that EA is being so open to us(the fans) this year. Working with us to fix what WE want fixed. I hope this continues so that Madden 2010 will be the revolutionized football game that I want it to be.

pat

pasta pacman was just reinstated into the nfl will he be in madden??????

pat

[quote comment="23660"]Why should the passing icons turn off automatically if someone drops back to far? They should just make the passes inaccurate.[/quote]

i guess because they dont want things that wouldnt appear in real life on the screen

JAKE THE SNAKE

I AM HAVING PASTA FOR DINNER.

lockdown

thanks pasta for everything chitown in the building but, did they include the bengals orange on black and black on black uni's

Gotti

[quote comment="23660"]Why should the passing icons turn off automatically if someone drops back to far? They should just make the passes inaccurate.[/quote]

Your somewhat right Zack, another issue i have is the throwing distance the qb is able to throw even though they are 10 20 yards back of the line of scrimmage, we all know 50, 60, 70 yard throws dont happen normally so I think fatigue should be a big part of how far the ball gets thrown especially if some jack online sprints out of the pocket, that and the disappering icons would make it a lot more realistic. Please pasta have EA fix the Niners classic helmet, this helmet is legendary how could they not get that right.

Jamin

oh! ok! thanks i didn't see the videos

Batousai

I really Really need to see the SOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 changed i meen the only player thats weres the white part high like that is reggie bush id also like to see the visor thing changed westbrook doesnt wear a green visor but the SOCKS are my biggest issue

xxtruthxx

nice to get a lil rep in that blog there not bad

-mastershake 88 on the operationsports board.

franchisejr15

[quote comment="23637"]Im glad they decided to fix the uniforms, but what about the socks? Why does everyone in madden wear high socks? The only player i really seen wearing those were reggie. Pasta is their anyway you could tell them about that? As far as different players wearing socks and different color underarmour?[/quote

Pasta is there a way you could find out about my questions?

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