I have a suggestion for complete defense control. More control than what is currently available. Good job with the development so far by the way boys. madden has come along way for the new system. I was thinking for a new defensive scheme when you hit the Y button the audibles come up and then you hit the Y button again for coverage audible options. My suggestiosn is creating a certain button for each corresponding player on your team, so when you enter the cover audible options you can pick the player you want to audible with the touch of a button rather than selecting him on the field. The receivers and running backs are the the action buttons (A, B, Y, M, RBL, RBR) and then the line backers would be left on the right stick and then right on the right stick and then up on the right stick. If its a 3-4 defense than down on the right stick would be the other MLB. Same for D-lineman but on the D-pad. So when you pick your corresponding player thats when the playmaker options comes up with the certain zone and blitzs that you can audible into. I just find this is a good idea when offenses are in hurry up mode and u can't select the player you want to coverage audible and still have your cursor on the player you want to control after the snap. Of course you could still keep the press coverage audibles in the coverage audible selection but just have to hold the LT and then select the direction to move the zones. I also remember the feature when you could commit to the pass or run after the snap. Or when you could tell your which ever DB you choose to jump a certain side of the receivers cut. You guys did a fantastic! job with the visuals this year it really feels like your in the game and i feel like you have a great model you can build off of now. I just wanted to give my recommedations from a true fan who loves to play the game. I hope this has enspired some ideas for your development.

I don't know if anyone posted this yet (I tried to skim through all the pages) but how come no matter what year you are in, the pre-game statistics are always from 2008? Kinda weird.

I have bought and played Madden football games every single year since 1998 and I think 10 is the most realistic so far.Great graphics, pregame is cool as well as the halftime on franchise mode.The problem I have is when you pay online I can't figure out why you guys designed it so that the play clock speeds up.You should be able to choose if you want that or not.I hate it you can't do hot routes or run motion or call audibles it gives you no real time.I would really like to see that be an option when playing an online game.

I would like to see realistic stat improvements.
I understand that with age one cannot keep their physical abilities as they were in youth.
But when I have a 30 year old player break nfl records I would at least like to not see a drastic stat drop.

For instance. Tom Brady got injured in real life last year for a majority of the year. This year, he has high injury and a high overall. Other great players don't get this sort of love. Matt Birk for instance. One of the better centers in football. Has an injury plagued season and gets nerfed.

While it is very rare a player can play at an old age and perform brilliantly. As in Favre/Warner to name a few off my head. It seems unbalanced. If a player can drop in speed and there is no way to get it back up, or I want to try to break the rushing title with LT but by season 3 he is as slow as Brad Johnson on crutches, it gets ehh?

I'm not sure if this was already mentioned on this Forum, but I would like to be able to advance the weeks from the online franchise website. Hopefully that is eventually possible being that I'm a commissioner of a league and if I'm waiting on other teams to play there games and get a call or text that they are ready I want to move the weeks forward on the go. Please make this possible if it can be done. Just a thought to make this all more convenient for the future when the community grows even larger for online franchise.
Thanks!

dear EA SPORTS,

first off the game looks fantastic, really great design and devolopment. after that being said i would like to present some ideas for DLC and/or future madden titles. first being the QB accuracy thing, you did a great job wth short, medium, and long ratings(great idea), however that being said letting a QB run 20 yds back and throwing a srike is very common in online play and not very common in real life football. on the run QB's should also have a seperate rating for that because it seems that every QB can do this not to mention pa fake were the QB runs a bootleg to the left and throws a laser across his body on the run. another very common move used during online play.QB ratings should decrease quite a bit when they get so many yards out o fthe pocket and on the run. that is my first issue. second idea i have is a limit on playcalling, i purpose that a mode ( call it adult football) were you can only use the same play twice a game. it opens up everthing to both players and lets the gamers explore new plays while keeping the game fair and honest. there is nothing worse and boring playing a person who uses the same play20 times a game, win or loss. just a thought, real football teams are lucky if they get to run the same play twice, which brings me to point 3. advanced AI play recognition. when you use a a play more than a few times the defense should have it figured out, its not fair that the AI blows a touchdown play because they got burnt again on the 1 plaay you try to stop and they just dont get it over and over again. gamers should not be penalized for failure to adjust by the AI. And the last thing i will purpose is in game chat. highlight your buddy and have the option for a chat screen sort of what mlb09 the show has. well hope you read this and please get back to me.

I can't stand madden anymore because it does not play like the real thing I never seen such madness in a football game with the defense not covering correctly cheating 4 certain teams not tackling anybody but stands still the whole game and the safeties and cornerbacks are watching instead of just covering the man on offense but QB on offense just over throws ball to the receivers that the game does on purpose and I get sick of the linemen that don’t block … period !! … the game will cheat 4 certain teams on propose so bad that it’s pathetic !!! That the maker of this game need A reality check because they seem not 2 know anything about football !! …. I keep having the cpu take control of my man that I have highlighted and run me in different direction or just take over my make and take me straight out of the play …. Period !!! …. and I keep trying 2 pass but the cpu just keep over throwing my man on a short pass and get intercepted but doesn’t throw straight ball 2 the area of the man but throw so far away from the man the receiver is just not there ... now ... if I was going long … like 30 yard or more then I can understand a over thrown pass but a 15 yard pass the cpu just throws the ball over and over his head and I can’t understand why or even so short that the linebacker just catch the ball with ease and the receivers are 10 yards past the man but they manage still catch a open pass over his head and the ball should be over the defenders head …. how is it that you can't just throw straight 2 the man instead of throwing away from the man every time I seen this happen game after game … that sometime I just wont even play certain team because of the madness of the game … who wants 2 play a game that's going 2 cheat 4 that team on purpose even before kickoff … I have seen my man that I have highlight go after the RB and the cpu just takes over and moves my man out of a play on purpose when the old game would have been on point that it pathetic or they would catch the ball of every down … but you would drop the ball even on critical downs when you have 2 score and the man could be open … but terrible defense as well that madden does they wont cover !! … the weakness is the linebacker’s -n- safeties they don’t play adequate defense a man could run his route straight in front of him and no response and even after the catch he still wont move until the man starts 2 run … So play like real football and not this pansy football that I keep seeing I don’t care of you have a buster team a buster team can comeback and win the game but the game doesn’t do this it keeps on cheating on purpose like if it's a run or a play and rhe RB is running down filed and the line backer is coming 2 get him but ... he doesn’t he just goes straight 4 the blocker instead and the running back just keeps running right past him or the linebackers just watches him run right pass him and the LB just turns and watches hi just go by … or the defense would take a step back instead of just running forward 2 hit the man like the old game .. Now who does this is real football I would not step back if I saw a RB coming towards my way …. but the switch a receivers play doesn’t work sometimes the veers play 4 the RB is running is a short a slant …. when your switched the play instead he just walks 5 yard …. and when you throw the ball 2 him he takes off running … I hate when it does this ….. but now on defense …. and the it's a pitched ball play and the cpu has it designed 2 take you out of the game and it more controlled and programmed by the cpu that you cant control the play … but it controls you …. so the pitched is done … but your highlight and you cant even stop it because …. ether the CPU is involved …. so what is it you suppose 2 do when the CPU cheat online on purpose and it just design 2 play that way so the game just sucks in general ….. But now …. the safeties cover suck because they play so far back that a pass is so easily done because he's 10 yard away from the man and the safeties are the weakest part of the game because they play out of position and the line backer do as well … the LB are so poor in the game that you mite have probowler LB and he still cant tackle like a pro bowler should …. but the RB on this game can do it all ….. not that many RB can break tackles like that and the defense doesn’t miss that many tackle in a game ….. maybe a few but not the whole game that I’m sick of it … but on kickoff …. if they would do an onside kick they would switch out of it ….. but you cannot …. So you stuck in an onside kick so if the go back 2 a regular kick off you stuck in on-side ….and if the went 2 an onside kick the man that goes after the ball turns his back 2 the ball ….. and it hit him in the number of his back and that is so sad of a play that it sucks just about every time … when I knew that the game is cheating when I have my man highlighted I could feel the joystick rattling and I haven’t hit anyone yet and have not hiked the ball …. but soon as the ball is hiked the cpu takes over my man of better yet I could have my finger on the button and he wont jump or try 2 attempt 2 jump 4 the ball or I would try 2 tackle the man and he would just jump instead of tackling him ….. Now ….. the cpu would freeze my QB on throw that it stuck me in problem throwing late 2 the receivers ……but soon a II hilled the ball and I see the man open as soon as you hit the button the ball should release but it just freezes and throw later causing an interception so you mite as well put down the joystick or play another game because this one is done !!!! Now what happen is a cover 2 defense ….. and they throw 2 the man bin the corners but …. the man is not there ???? …. in that cover on both sides 2 pick him off but if he playing in a ( cover 2 ) but in the old game he was intercepted … and what about a receivers running a route but does things on his own instead of running his route correctly that is set before him and no one has bumped him at all …. but he still does something crazy … and the same goes 4 catches and I get tired of these wonder woman catches that they do a spin 4 a catch instead of just a catching the ball and running down field …. But on the run …. I hate when they have the 1st down and the line man just let the line backers just runs right past the linemen and get hit on a run play ….. The game will cheat like this … on a pass play they the receiver and the running back would run 4 a pass but a short yard route …… one runs a 5 yard route and the other runs a 10 yard route but the RB play is a 3 or 4 yard route but the game would cheat so badly that they would not run a 5 year route but a 1 or 2 yard route on short passes that when I know that the game is cheating and doing this that they would run the whole game short yard route instead of the a 3 or 4 yard the would run a 1 or 2 yard route and this drove me crazy ….. … now what kind of football is this ….. pansy football that’s created 2 cheat .. .. Make a real football game seem so crappy and outta place …… I don’t like when the cpu switch my man 4 me it should happen that way …. But they just keep making crappy football .. I hate when the cpu switches your man on defense on propose like if I wanted 2 switch my man I would have done so myself

I'm venting to keep from throwing me controller across the room. I love football but I hate madden 10 so I'm stuck with it. Playing All-Pro is frustrating the A.I. cheats and doesn't even try and hide it. I created 3 LB's to play along side of Patrick Willis, I blitz every play and it doesn't matter which team or QB I playing we just can't get to him. The OL blocking is unreal the LG will slide all the way right to block my LOLB? my 3 created play are all 99 in everything, the guard should not be able to catch my LB but he does it all the time? GET REAL The AI QB is unbelivable he is able to complete about 90% of the passes no matter much pressure is on him. Where is the intentional grounding. The QB will always seem to be able to get off the pass even when he's in the grasp. I sacked the QB and as we where on the way to the ground he got off the pass, it was incomplete but in the real world they world have call it a sack or at least intentional grounding

More Venting

You stop the AI first and second downs and it always complete a pass for a 1st down on 3rd down no matter what defense your in.

the AI's player always sheds the first defensive player that hits him even if that player has 99 tackling

the AI's player always falls forwards and when your on offense your player always falls backwards

the AI's defense intercepts the ball with a great spectacular catch and your defensive player drop or lets the ball bounce off them even when its straight to them

you press the button to throw to a player and nothing happens and before you can hit it again your sacked

your in a formation and the AI's defense is stacked to the side that you are going to. If I'm running the defense is up on the line. if I'm passing the defense will play back. If i'm running right all day out of the same formation and I decide to run left the defense magically is stacked up left?? or if I'm running out of a certain formation and I decide to play action the defense lines up pass play. I feel like the AI is in my huddle or stealing signals

you player is wide open and you make a bad pass or he drops the ball. I knows it happens in the NFL but it seems to happen to much.

This is the worst: The AI is running or just completed a pass, I'm running to make a tackle with my 99 speed LB and I seem to lose controll of him for a split second, just enough so the AI's able to get the 1st down or score. The last time it happened I was running across field with the perfect angle to tackle him. My player just seem to hesitate I was running full speed holding R2 no one was around my LB????????? The AI scored. I watched the replay over and over, You could clearly see the hesitation. CHEATING Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I want is to play fair. If the AI beats me. so be it, but not by cheating


I FORGOT TO ADD THE PLAY CHALLENGES: The AI always wins its challenge and I seems to lose over 98 % of the time. I've had the AI fumble twice it a row clearly it was a fumble and both times the AI challenged and the play was reversed.

getting the 2nd patch out ASAP would be great

This is something I think could be included in an update, but during online play, you can't take your full time out time on Defense. If a team takes a defensive time out they should have their full time to sub player in and out. The way it is now the timer starts when the offense picks their play. Maybe the time can be made to where it can't start until 20 seconds on the clock or something.

Just a thought. Love the game. It is the most realist football sim I have ever seen.