First News on Madden 2010
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The first news relating to Madden 2010 was to be announced at halftime of the Super Bowl on the brand new EA Sports Community Blog. That announcement has come and centers around discussion of new technology in the game and specifically “Procedural Awareness”.
It is my pleasure to introduce Madden’s newest piece of technology, one that is also shared within many of the EA SPORTS games, called Procedural Awareness. What is it? We’ll you’ve likely heard of “head tracking” with IK. If you haven’t, it’s a way to turn the players head around to face a target dynamically, without the need for canned animations. Well, think of Procedural Awareness (PA for short) as the “next-gen” version of head tracking. Since it is so early in the year, unfortunately I can’t show you any videos of it running in the game, but I can show some “tech demos” of sorts
You can read it in full by clicking here. Continue on to leave your thoughts in the comments and check out the videos.
February 4, 2009 at 6:02 am
Sooooooo…umm..
HOW BOUT THEM STEELERS???!!
February 5, 2009 at 12:45 pm
lol steel
February 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
GARBAGE ASS FEATURE MAN! EA IS WACK! WOW TURN AND LOOK TO WHERE YOU ARE THROWING AND LOOKING I BET YOU ITS STILL NOT GONNA STOP THE GAME FROM BEING GARBAGE! CAN WE HAVE NEW DEFENSIVE FEATURES PLEASE! CUZ MADDEN 06-PRESENT HAS NO DEFENE IN IT! TEAMS DEFENSES SHOULD REALLY BE BASED ON RATINGS! IF I HVAE BALTIMORE AND THEIR D IS RATED 100 OR 96 CAN DEY PLAY LIKE IT NOW PLEASE! THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL BUFFALO WILL ACK UP OVER 300 YARDS AGAINST DA RAVENS! AS A MATTER OF FACT INDY COULDNT DO IT NEITHER COULD TENN OR NEW ENGLAND! BOY I TELL YOU PLEASE JUS WORK ON GAMEPLAY THIS YEAR! EVERY YR EA HITS YOU WITH A NEW WACK ASS FEATURE LIKE WE GIVE A DAMN! THAT MADDEN IQ SHIT WAS SORRY! JUS A WAY FOR NOOBS TO NOOBS EVEN MORE! IF YOU DONT KNO HOW TO PLAY FOOTBALL IN REAL LIFE IT SHOULD SHOW IN A VIDEO GAME! EA HAS MADE MADDEN TOO EASY TO PLAY MY SON CAN BEAT SOMEBODY AND HE AINT BUT 6 MONTHS! WOW EA!
February 4, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Same BS but a new year, I'm not buying it. Long live NFL 2K5!!!!!!!!! <—First REAL football game
February 5, 2009 at 12:49 pm
and ea fucked that up for us
February 4, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I hope that this affects the offensive line also. I get so frustrated when I blitz and a guard from the right block a LB or safety blitzing outside on the left. He could never see it and that would never happen.
February 4, 2009 at 8:13 pm
EA is really sad. they reallyt showed how the care bout us how the sent out that last update(mind u the skipped an update to give us that crap then dont give a listing "Fuck us") and the demo dont have a jaw. just like 2009 missing someing!!!
EA should put out another update, call this one a mulligan
February 4, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Same BS but a new year, I'm not buying it. Long live NFL 2K5!!!!!!!!! <—First REAL football game
I WISH EA HAD PRIDE IN THIER PRODUCT, Madden would have already been a far second in football, just like "NBA Live is"
EA gonna wonder why nobody purchase thier stuff in a couple of years.
cause even EA hommers are gettin tired of this crap!!!
February 4, 2009 at 8:17 pm
E " Maddoff" A Sports
February 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm
i love they way 195-240 pound running backs just breaks 310-320 pound dt ….fakest thing ever.
February 5, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I think this seems decent but not extremely necessary I still think they should update the online play similar to NCAA so that when you get disconnect the team with the higher score get the win cuz recently I have been getting disconnected alot by players ranked higher than me and when they are losing by 30 or something magically it disconnects and there is still no record. Happened at least ten times last week. I guess its cuz I play with the chiefs.
February 6, 2009 at 12:01 am
on madden we need more realistic catches everytime the receiver goes to catch it he does a mini floating 360 they need to have catches that specific receiver makes like make fitz go up and get it instead of playing around with the corners and safteys. Steve smith to make spectacular catches. ITs been coming more realistic but its just missing a few key components. Maybe the few components would be on 2k football but we all know what happened then.
February 6, 2009 at 1:31 am
what they need to work on this year is make the off-season franchise mode and training camp…
they need to make restricted free agents like they did on ps2..
also make the franchise mode way better..
another this is make training camp way better its horrible.. how do u expect to get players better buy getting 1 0r 2 points…and some time its takes like for points to get players better and go up an overall.
what about the stiff arms to don't get me started,…stiff are hardly even works in this damn game,the stiff arms on ps2 are way better…its like only the computer can do the flashy moves and we cant do none of that.
oh god what about the receivers they don't even freaking jump??? what the hell is that when u throw the ball in the air u can even jump and the db just jumps so high and picks it of??
they need to make the realese better on the qb because smoe times it takes them like 3 seconds to get the ball of there hands and they just get sacked….
they need to add more penalties…
they need to fix the hands on the db's because they just don't catch shit….but yet the computer catches every thing come on now..
the running is not smooth at all..
the blitz's suck u can never get to the quarterback…
the computer always throw the ball just as soon as ur about to sack em..
but instead it just ends up being a completed pass..
the blocking for the run game is horrible … the computer all ways sheads the block and just takles u in the backfield . the coverage in that game sux's ur db always gets lost..but when they computer plays they play there coverage excellent no matter what…
they need to make players play ass there overall. every player in that game plays the same….for instance u got the best ot in the game and there supposed to be the best pass blocker or what ever next thing u know that game is over and he gives up at least 5 sacks????what is that if ur 99 ovr,.. ur not supposed to do that. i can a 70 ovr.. player and he'll do the same thing..
ha another thing the full backs in this game cant block for shit they have no awareness, yet while the computer have the best blockers,… and u cant shed them for nothing.. come on now not real…
the catches on that game are so boring im getting tired of seeing the same catches over and over…have lik at least 10 or more different catching styles and run's and what not..
have the players talk smack to each other…
oh yeah and another thing i for got to mention…
remember how every 5 weeks on the franshise mode on ps2 how players used to get better(overall) or worser every 5 week(player progression) why'd they take that out that whats stupid that it was actually fun seeing ur players get better and how they progressed during the past weeks….
look ea if you can address all these things i guarantee you will have one of the best sports game out…EVER.. and i am sure there are way more things that need to be fixed with this game…
come on ea i know u can do better this year a whole lot better..
oh yeah and another thing its is so fake to see 195-240..ect running backs or who ever running over 300-345 dt like seriously the fakest thing alive you cant just run throw somebody or just trucks somebody that's size its impossible FIX IT…
February 6, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Everything this guy said, I agree with…playing franchise mode against A.I on all madden will give you a heart attack with the unfairness factor.
February 6, 2009 at 6:10 pm
And why do elite recievers, drop passes with the same rate as 70 rated players? on all madden? thats one of the most annoying things in a while
February 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm
and your O-Line gives you like 2 second protection…max, makes it really hard to make progressions on longer developing routes……and WHY oh WHY does Jason Taylor(55 catching) interecept a like 5 passes in a game? I was like wtf?
and my madden IQ is 748…so im not any scrub either
the game is fuckin flawed
February 7, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Instead of releasing one new feature a year, why not shoot high and do more than Procedural Awareness? Show you actually care and make more improvements. But then again I'm talking to EA, we really can't hope for much
February 8, 2009 at 3:58 am
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February 10, 2009 at 4:27 am
Is this a Rocket Catch
http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/3711287
February 15, 2009 at 6:34 pm
why did they take away the scores during the season and take away the newspaper. They don't even have cheerleaders on the sidelines. they need to be more like nfl2k5.
March 11, 2009 at 7:56 pm
madden is the sh*t, its the only nfl game we can buy so just deal with it if you don't like it
April 21, 2009 at 1:54 am
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