Madden 10 Will Have New Online Modes
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A “key features” list for Madden 10 has been posted up on on the Playstation website. At first glance the list comes across as somewhat vague but it actually contains a good deal of information much of which is new. The embargo for Madden comes up on Wednesday so I’ll be able to talk more about some of these features then.
Pro –Tak™ – This all new animation technology provides unprecedented control over the outcome of every play. Drag defenders towards the first down marker, including up to 9-man gang tackles, fight for a fumble at the bottom of the pile, and evade the rush with all-new quarterback avoidance actions. Enhanced play at the line of scrimmage features a new blocking system that allows the quarterback to step into the pocket and gives the defensive line more control over the rush.
Unprecedented Authenticity – Referees peeling players off a fumble pile, the chain gang rushing in to measure for a key first down, and all-new player equipment ensure that if you see it on Sunday, you’ll see it in Madden NFL 10.
Fight for Online Dominance – Delivering the most comprehensive online offerings in franchise history, Madden NFL 10 includes new modes to satisfy the competitive and cooperative football gamer.
The Emotion of the NFL – New TV broadcast-style presentation and cinematic cameras bring the suspense and intensity of the NFL to your living room.
Enhanced Franchise Mode – Run each aspect of an NFL franchise: draft players, sign free agents, manage the salary cap – just like a real GM. Enjoy all of the action throughout the league via a new, network inspired highlight show.
Madden NFL Your Way – The most customizable version of Madden NFL to date! Alter gameplay options to adjust the experience to your liking. A revamped play calling system and menu takes you to kickoff faster than ever before. Speed up online matches with accelerated clocks, streamlined presentation and more.
The most notable aspect of this feature list is the “new (online) modes to satisfy the competitive and cooperative football gamer”. Could that include the Online Franchise mode that people are hoping for? It looks like it at least remains a possibility. The cooperative part could be hinting at something along the lines of Online Team Play where each user would control just one player on a team. We’ll be finding out what they have in store for Madden 10 when the online related announcements are made at E3.
April 27, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Meh. It will be good for the online crowd.
April 28, 2009 at 5:56 am
Nothing I want more then Online Tournament mode where users can host online tournaments and Madden could have sanctioned online tournaments. Thats the one major thing online madden is messing. Pool points for online rankings in tournaments, with the same set up as the head to head points system. I pray every year.
April 27, 2009 at 10:58 pm
The Pro-Tak will be sweet though.
April 27, 2009 at 11:02 pm
nice features but will franchise progression, free agent signing, etc work out of the box?
April 27, 2009 at 11:02 pm
O yea. Can't wait til E309 baby. Im pretty sure that if madden wants to step up their game even more then, they will add online team play. If they do Please allow us to have clubs like Live. Pasta do you know when were going to hear about Nba Live10?
April 28, 2009 at 8:53 am
Live sucks u better get 2k10 thats the most realistic basketball game on the market Lebron be biting his finger nails and every little aspect of the real NBA is in 2k sports basketball I use too play live for like 10 years 2k is just the best now live use too be ok
April 27, 2009 at 11:05 pm
sounds delicious
if it really is team play i have a feeling that people are just gonna use the patriots and make variations of streaks with moss and brady
April 28, 2009 at 4:20 am
Well u may just be using ur own players tho. dont really know yet hope tho.
April 28, 2009 at 7:45 pm
if u played nhl club is when u create ur own player and build him up w/ be a pro for madden superstar. so u would have ur own guy who u improved through superstar
April 27, 2009 at 11:09 pm
i agree with gabe g every one is going to use brady and moss but i will like it to becouse we got cutler with canon and hester… the fastest.
April 28, 2009 at 1:08 am
Haha…you said Hester! The most overrated bum in the history of REAL football!!!!!!
April 28, 2009 at 5:31 am
Best Return man in the /History of Real Football. Real Talk!
April 28, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Have you ever heard of a guy named Deion Sanders??? Shit, even Roscoe Parrish and Dante Hall are better than Hester now! 2-year wonder…….that was it….and he sux as a WR!
April 28, 2009 at 6:26 am
Jamarcus and heyward-bay hahahah
April 27, 2009 at 11:14 pm
You think the Enhanced Franchise Mode will allow you to start out at the draft pasta?
April 27, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Sweet. QB Avoid will be in the NEXT-GEN games too!!! And i also like the Franchise Enhancements. When will the WILDCAT blog be out???
April 28, 2009 at 3:40 pm
the wildcat blog showed up yesterday, then disappeared after a little while…
April 27, 2009 at 11:21 pm
FINALLY.
Not like I've been clicking obsessively all day. Nope, not me.
April 27, 2009 at 11:24 pm
"The Emotion of the NFL – New TV broadcast-style presentation and cinematic cameras bring the suspense and intensity of the NFL to your living room."
This is the big one, boys. This is the year they get it right.
April 28, 2009 at 12:51 am
I hope so. I been waiting to see more media presentation in the game. I been also waiting for some kind of highlight show for a long time too. This better be great.
April 28, 2009 at 1:56 am
I'm hoping it's as good, or better, than this four year-old game:
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April 27, 2009 at 11:25 pm
"Enjoy all of the action throughout the league via a new, network inspired highlight show."
This more than the other thing, but still. It seems like they get it now.
April 27, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Lets not forget what EA's definition of "NEW" is. Plus, with how bad the gameplay was last year, the last thing I need to hear about are modes.
April 27, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Finally!
April 27, 2009 at 11:45 pm
"all-new player equipment ensure that if you see it on Sunday, you’ll see it in Madden NFL 10."
YES!
I have been waiting for new player equipment since the next gen versions came out.
SO EXCITED FOR MADDEN 10
April 27, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Is the thing about the Franchise mode a joke? " draft players, sign free agents, manage the salary cap – just like a real GM" ??? Isn't that the same thing franchise has been for 10 years? haha. I am so excited for this game but one thing i was hoping was that franchise mode would become worthy of playing more than 3 seasons but by the sounds of that it seems like it hasn't changed too much maybe they'll elaborate on the 'new' franchise mode eventually.
April 28, 2009 at 12:07 am
Actually of the whole list the Pro-Tak is what im most interested in. Obviously i want new online modes, broadcast presentation, and Franchise stuff. But the Tackle technology is what i really want to see. Will it be something that really is as good as it sounds. Especially since tackling is by far the most important aspect of a football game IMO since thats what football is. At least regarding gameplay.
I mean the better the tackling , with regards to seeing new stuff all the time keeps the game fresh for a long time IMO. I really hope it truely is dynamic.
April 28, 2009 at 12:08 am
PLZZZZZ GIVE US ONLINE TEAM PLAY FOR MADDEN. Would love to play QB for my team and face human CB's and stuff would pwn.
April 28, 2009 at 12:09 am
Fix the lag tho I lag with just me and 1 other person will lag really bad I bet with even more ppl.
April 28, 2009 at 12:33 am
I pray that it is team play. It should be completely do able. Make it 7 on 7. Every position on offense except the line, and any position on defense.
April 28, 2009 at 12:39 am
Make it 11 on 11 baby, does not mean u have to play 11 on 11 but I would like to play o-line since let's say u run the ball all the time would help to play o-line.
April 28, 2009 at 1:19 am
Team play will happen eventually, so I don't see why now wouldn't be a good time to start. They better at least have an online franchise mode though.
April 28, 2009 at 12:49 am
the new madden post on insideblog.easports.com is up now!!!! Its an extensive view on the wildcat! it looks really good
http://insideblog.easports.com/archive/2009/04/27...
April 28, 2009 at 1:11 am
Thxs the the info man.
April 28, 2009 at 1:16 am
Not to nitpick but if that's supposed to be Ricky Williams then they really need to make him darker & his facemask needs to have a smaller opening. I noticed that they have a lot of the players skin shades wrong. Hopefully they catch this & fix it.
April 28, 2009 at 1:18 am
Dude the game is not done yet.4 months or so away. Sure they will get all that worked out.
April 28, 2009 at 7:27 am
He needs a smoked Visor too, kinda looks nothing like Ricky. I hope they can fix it b/c I saw clips of Larry Fitz and he looks great.
April 28, 2009 at 1:11 am
But when will they put in 10-man gang tackles? C'mon, EA!
April 28, 2009 at 6:18 am
are u serious i never seen 9 people jump on 1 man hahaha
April 28, 2009 at 1:18 am
Perhaps the highlight show means they're finally taking advantage of the ESPN license. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if it was done by Collinsworth and Hammond so maybe not.
April 28, 2009 at 2:04 am
They were careful to say "network inspired highlight show," which to me means something closer to a "Madden Weekly" segment than something that's ESPN branded. Having NFL Primetime would be pretty cool, as long as they can nail the crescendo that every team rides during the season, from the low murmur of off-season activity to the freak show hype fest circus act that is the weeks leading up to the Superbowl.
Here's hoping.
April 28, 2009 at 3:19 am
Its probably EA Sports branded. ESPN isn't going to be a big part of the presentation. The NFL would prefer NFL Network be used. So theres that conflict there.
April 28, 2009 at 3:35 am
Just so glad to be having this conversation. Been burning holes through the 09 series the last few weeks in anticipation.
April 28, 2009 at 3:41 am
I think I catch your drift. (If u have one) but is Madden 10 going to have Broadcast Bresentation with NFL Network INSTEAD of ESPN?
April 28, 2009 at 5:03 am
So Pasta do you think that the video Larry Fitzgerald played on Jimmy Kimmel with the player getting hurt and being carted off was real.
April 28, 2009 at 1:22 am
o yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a highlight show!! finally. this is gonna be sick. im hoping for a online franchise now
April 28, 2009 at 1:25 am
madden is all bark no bite. they can tell you all these new features but I guarantee that none of these features will work right. For example, they introduced the spectacular catch. Look how that turned out. Adaptive A.I. last year when all they did was make you drop more passes when you're ahead and vice versa.
April 28, 2009 at 1:27 am
you think they could let you choose which defensive players to double team? For example, send two o-line men to try and stop/slow down pass rushers like j. peppers or d. ware?
April 28, 2009 at 1:57 am
That would be nice.
April 28, 2009 at 1:30 am
false advertisement. they can say whatever they want. once they have your money all you can do is complain. EA will take that any day.
April 28, 2009 at 1:40 am
WOW! that's all I can say. This game sounds absolutly amazing. I can hardly wait for it. Pasta if you can would you look in-deph on the pre-game feature? I'm very curious to see what this is. Keep doing what you are doing!______Ps: I'm very jealous you got to hang with Crabtree and Curry and much much more!
April 28, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I bet youd be up for sucking their cocks too eye mate?
April 28, 2009 at 1:41 am
lets just hope EA got the physics right in this game because i think the physics is the most important part of the game. if physics get done right that means no more retarded jukes, ALL running backs cutting on a dime, and NO MORE of this rocket catch bullshit well that means the procedural awareness where the WR has to follow the ball to catch it, rather than just turning around and jumping 50 feet in the air and just catching it. LETS JUST HOPE…..
April 28, 2009 at 2:38 am
The tackling system looked great in the trailer, really pumped up for this years game!
HOpefully the presentation is great, last years was a step in the right direction but nowhere near where they should be
April 28, 2009 at 3:18 am
Players still run upright, and everyone was saying how amazing madden 09 looked, and it didn't turn out so good, just saying
April 28, 2009 at 3:27 am
If you watched the Jimmy Fallon vids Pasta posted (THANKS SO MUCH) You will see half sleeves like Matt Ryan. The only only thing I would really want is one arm sleeves like Jamarcus Russell. Will those be there Pasta or do you have to wait till Wednesday to say? please respond!!!
April 28, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Jimmy Fallon sucks worse than cancer
April 28, 2009 at 3:55 am
Pasta, anything else being revealed about this "Fight for the Fumble" talk? It so far is the biggest piece to the "make or break" the game puzzle. I HOPE it is not a button mashing contest.
April 28, 2009 at 4:21 am
Also screw Brady GOOOO MANNING!!!!!!!!!!1
April 28, 2009 at 6:36 am
Pasta, everyone was trashing the trailer because of all the Willie Parker and gang tackling. However, I think EA was trying to show off the system. In all of the subsequent videos, I have not seen gang tackles, which means we dont have to worry about this every play. This is a good thing. Real Talk. If you want to see something funny type in Gideon Prime on youtube, and watch an edition of TROOF CHASUS
April 28, 2009 at 7:57 am
Hey pasta! I was just curious. I seem to remember their being a open discussion last year with EA reps on here regarding uniform errors un madden. Is that happening again this year? if so then where can we point something out to the team? Thanks for your advice.
April 28, 2009 at 9:19 am
maybe they will work on fixing bugs and glitches this year…i think that is too much to ask…
how about stopping guys from dropping back 20 yards and rolling out all day then using the play-maker to get you rb on the other side of the field and hit him with a pass….
April 28, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Im still wondering if they will have the custom names in NCAA Football 10? Remember when we put those in?
April 28, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I hope the new fumble recovery feature doesn't turn into a 6 fumbles per game to enjoy the feature
April 28, 2009 at 12:53 pm
but you know that it will
April 28, 2009 at 12:52 pm
New play calling system? WTF? There was nothing wrong with the old one!
Also, the Wildcat is going to RUIN online. Everybody and their brother is going to use/exploit it. EA is going overboard on something that only a select few teams in the league use, and you know that since they are hyping it so much that it's going to be WAAAAAAAAY too effective!
April 28, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I honestly dont like Fallon either. The only reason i said Fallon was because those vids were the bomb
April 28, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Pasta one question about the Pro Tak
you have gotten a chance to see it and play it the Pro Tak isnt gonna make players be able to break a insane amount of tackles with it?
April 28, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Do you guys think this game will play like 09 just new animations?
April 28, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I really want to believe that the game will change for the better this year, but I'll believe it when I see it. Too many broken promises from EA in years past
April 28, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I think it will. i just played Madden 08 today and i am amazed at how much the gameplay changed in 09. i personally think 08 was the better version,
April 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm
I only have three problems with the game..
1)Running mechanics
2)Blocking or lack of it and realistic pass rush
3)Pass Swatting
if they vastly improve those problems then i am a happy.
April 28, 2009 at 7:14 pm
wow! i really think those r the only problems i have too. its that simple EA.
April 28, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Sound like they are really adding to the presentation side of things. Really good to hear. After spending so many hours with MLB The Show, and many more hours to come, I've gotten spoiled with how a sports game should be done. Sounds like Madden is taking steps to make it right. Can't wait to check it out!
April 28, 2009 at 6:47 pm
if EA teamed with the creaters of The Show, Madden would truly be the best sports game ever.
then again no xbox version
April 28, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I'd be okay with that. I'd much rather give my money to Sony. At least they can make a console that doesn't break down. I'm on my 3rd Xbox360. Luckily they've fixed it for free both times, but the fact that they have to fix it (or most likely replace it) at all is ridiculous. Plus my PS3 is soooo quiet compared to the Xbox360, which sounds like a small vacuum cleaner running sometimes. Still love both, though. I would have never gotten to play Gears of War or Fable 2. Got my PS3 for The Show and the eventual release of God of War 3, which will be another system seller for the PS3.
April 28, 2009 at 8:07 pm
attention to detail. it would suck for people who dont have a ps3 like me to begin with. I'm on my second waiting for it to die again. I have an electrical pump for an air mattress that's quieter than my box. if you download your games to the hard drive its a whole lot quieter.I wish i wouldnt got a ps3.
April 28, 2009 at 9:17 pm
YOUR ALL SHEEP! MADDEN WILL ROB YOU AGAIN THIS YEAR, AND PROMISE BETTER THE NEXT!
April 29, 2009 at 12:39 am
oooo man i sure hope if they add teamplay it wont be really laggy
April 29, 2009 at 9:30 pm
online franchise !!!!!!!!!!
May 2, 2009 at 8:58 pm
ea is garbage they are jus now trying to make their game good bcuz theres competition this yeah
May 2, 2009 at 8:58 pm
year