Gameplay & Presentation FAQ

Replays are the worst if i break a 65yd run for a TD it only plays half of it.

im tired of my db's not being in the flats. when are you going to fix that?

and there needs to be a way to see the flats. whether its throwing or defending there, its horrible to not have any idea whats going on.

and for some reason, my cb just walked offsides. and by walked, i mean moved as if being teleported

turn off acc. clock, and turn off animations like the officials and the field goals. you know what the officials will decide after the first second and you usually know anyway. and its stupid to take away the already small chance to block a potentially game-winning field goal with the weird field goal angles

This is not a question, but mearly a suggestion....

I really would love to see a Madden NFL game start off like the others, but you have to work your way to play on your team. For Example, if I create a player and get drafted by the 49'ers but I really want to play for the saints, I have to impress them and go out to their camps impress them and ask for them to hire me. I also would like to see something on the lines of when you are not playing football, you can walk the streets, buy things, veg out.

Hello,
Avid player here and I have a couple of suggestions. I know you guys are working with the ps3 and it hasn't even been maximized to it's full potential. My suggestions are:
1) Instead of just 2 announcers, how about a pool of announcers that are picked randomly for each game. It would make the game even more realistic since in real life there are different announcers for each game.
2) Same thing for officials, instead of the same officials in each game, design a pool of them to pick at random. I do like what you did about the 3rd and short and questionable touchdown.
3) My name. The announcers can never pronounce my name Tickle. Please make it capable of doing that.
4) For now, the last thing is bring back create a playbook. I loved that. You had it reccently but you could not use it during franchise mode. Bring it back so we can use it wherever, just need to import it into franchise pick a playbook.

Thanks,

Lawrence Tickle

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 11/02/2009 21:26:54

ok, this has happened to me twice. i will have broken a kickoff and will clearly have a td when one of my blockers who has gone way down field decides to come back to block someone. for some reason, this blocker seems to take the route through the return man. this causes me to stop or be slowed down enough to be caught by the return team.

and for the guy who posted above me: REALLY?! there are so many gameplay flaws and you get on the gameplay forum to whine about refs and announcers? last time i checked neither had anything to do with gameplay. if you wanna whine about irrelevant things, at least go to the right forum.

there should be way more busted coverages. in real NFL games it happens all the time. in madden everyone always does exactly what theyre supposed to do. this should be based on zone coverage/awarness ratings the lower the ratings higher chance they mess up. too many people just put theyre fastest guys in and it works to easy

Playing a game against bigred1900, Level 1, using the Raiders and he was using Denver. Now I laugh at how it seems that almost everyone is using the blitz and slow down players cheat but using Cover 3 have been beating them; love sending them this messegae..."hope that cheat didn't cost you too much". Suddenly at about 5:36 in the 3rd quarter defensive backs starting encroaching holding their leg; in the 3rd quarter there were almost 4 straight; in the 4th quarter there were 4 straight. It gets better; he finally quit in the 4th quarter and I got the "Continue Vs CPU choice; chose to continue. Final score of the game was 45-14. Saved my highlights and go to check his level and record and look at the game and it says I quit; that he won but I got the win showing in my streak...thought I had seen it all in Madden but it seems that the game can still amaze me.

I've got an issue...
I think that in Madden 11 you SERIOUSLY need to consider rating players according to their positions. Why? Well, I'll tell you...
I'm the Chiefs and I'm playing some douche bag using the Eagles (you know the guy... Onside kicks every kickoff, plays Vick and runs the wildcat every down). Fortunately for me, I picked him off 2 times and scored 2 TDs off Vick. It's the 4th Qtr. 24 to 21, 1:56 left on the clock. I'm marching down the field to get the game winning TD. I call a 5 WR set, my opponent rushes 2 guys. I'm looking for either Lance Long in the flat or Dwayne Bowe on a post route. The guy is playing as Bunkley. He pulls Bunkley from the rush and begins his pursuit on Bowe. And stupid me, thinking that Dwayne Bowe could EVER possibly out run the DT, he moves ahead and picks off my pass 25 yards down field....
Brodrick F*CKING Bunkley!!

Now, YOU tell me how in the hell that is possible. How is it that Brodrick Bunkley not only out runs Dwayne Bowe, but he also has the hands to pick off a dart from Matt Cassel??
Needless to say. I lost the game.

It's ridiculous.

My proposal.

I think that you @ EA need to consider rating players by their position. Example: Dwayne Bowe could be a 89 SPD. Brodrick Bunkley could be a 90 SPD. Would that mean that Bunkley is faster than Bowe? NO! Ofcourse not! Then you institute the position rating. Ofcourse, Brodrick Bunkley is NOT faster than D. Bowe, but for a Defensive Tackle, the guy is very fast. Dwayne Bowe on the other hand, is fast as well (way faster then Bunkley) but not as fast as say a Steve Smith, who could be considered a 97 SPD. Do you get it?

FIX IT!

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* EA MADDEN DEV TEAM!! THIS SECOND PATCH HAD BETTER BE EPIC!!!! OVER HALF WAY THROUGH THE REG SEASON WITH THEIR LAZY CRAP!!!!! THIS GAME IS SUCH BS AND HAS SO MANY CRAPPY THINGS THAT YOU'DE THINK A GAME CELEBRATING NEARLY 20 YEARS WOULD HAVE FIGURED OUT!! EA SUCKS, IAN CUMMINGS SUCKS, DONNY MOORE SUCKS, FERWADA SUCKS EVERYONE WHO TOUCHED THIS GAME SUCKS FA66OT *!!

WATZ UP WITH ALL THE DROPPED PASSES. HOW COME THE COMPUTER NEVER MAKES ADJUSTMENTS AFTER I AUDIBLE. I MEAN I AUDIBLE TO A SPREAD AND THE COMPUTER STAYS IN THE 4-3 AND CAN STILL COVER EVERYONE WEIRD. LAST NIGHT I WAS PLAYING A GAME AND PAT WATKINS THE SS ON DALLAS INTERCEPTED A BALL FROM MY RECIEVER RODDY WHITE. MY PROBLEM IS HE NEVER SEEN WHICH WAY I WAS THROWING THE BALL AND HIS BACK WAS TURN COMPLETELY. HOW COME THE COMPUTER GROUNDS THE BALL WHEN BEING SACKED BUT NO GROUNDING IS CALLED? HOW COME THE PUMP FAKE NEVER WORKS EVEN GUYS WITH THE LOWEST PLAY RECOGNITION WONT BITE SOMETIMES? WHEN WILL THE RATINGS EVER MATTER CUZZ ITS WEIRD THAT CLINT SESSIONS ON THE COLTS CAN KEEP UP WITH PERCY HARVIN? PLEASE DONT DELETE MY COMMENTS CAUSE THIS IS ABOUT GAMEPLAY AND PRESENTATION THANKS PEOPLE.

I have one complaint. While playing with Detroit my pass was "dropped" and picked off.

I know Detroit receivers not named Calvin Johnson are suspect, but the ball went thru his CHEST!!!

I have a great idea that would work so well but not sure how about going about copyrighting it or anything.. Take these fantasy football drafts online and could charge for it but draft the whole team and import them into the madden game so that anyone can play as their team and see how the are at running a team. Set up tournaments and everything.. Let me know what you think..

I have noticed that against opponents and against the computer when they quit you can allow the play clock on kickoffs to run to zero and no penalty is assessed; is there a new rule in the NFL I missed.

When i got this game for the 360, i was so happy. after an hour of playing it i thought it was great. then after a day i started finding more and more and more things that are really wrong about this game.

The most dissapointed object being the fact that I cannot create my own plays. I know its unfair to use them online, but if the ps2 had this great feature, why can't an xbox 360 on madden 10? I just want to use these created plays in practice and against the comp.

Here are a couple things that have ruined this game for me, in not particular order.

1. The RB to the flats. this is easily exploited online and your RB will have more receiving yards than your top WR. I heard its in the 2nd patch though, so thats good.

2. The slot receiver is far to effective. i'm making plays with slot WRs than i am with my starters. When you play the CPU vs CPU, the slot WR will almost always have more yards that the starters also.

3. The QB drops back, sees that nobody is open, but the pressure is coming. The QB throws the ball even to a well covered receiver and gets intercepted. all just to avoid the sack.

4. Speaking of which, the QB needs to just take the sack. tuck the ball, accept the sack.

5. There simply isn't enough pressure on the QB. in the NFL, you have 5 seconds MAX to throw the ball, otherwise you are sacked.

6. Players like Demarcus Ware, Jared Allen, Julius Peppers, John Abraham, Joey Porter, Trent Cole, and Osi Umenyiora aren't having an impact in the pass rushing department. The sacks always come from CBs blitzing, or DTs. It doesn't matter if you have a Jared Allen on your team cause he has no impact which is sad. a player like Jared allen should make you gameplan around him. force you to keep a TE or RB in to help block him specifically.

7. When you have a WR like randy moss, you send him deep and he rarely ever gets any separation, and a slower CB gains on him. Thats rediculous.

8. Speaking of whitch, there are no botched coverages. you watch an NFL game and at least once a game, someone will be wide open unaccounted for deep. not in madden 10. perfect deep coverage every time. You see rookie CBs playing perfect coverage.

9. When a wide out does catch a ball deep, after running at max speed, the CB catches him and the WR halts immediately. HIs momentum hould carry him another 5-10 yards but in madden 10 players can stop on a dime once touched.

10. In the NFL, about half of all interceptions come of tipped balls, that a WR or defender tips up. in madden 10 you never see any tipped balls, yet you will see someone like Drew Brees miss a WR by 10 yds.

11. I'm tired of seeing the same tackle animations, especially the shoestring caught from behind tackle. that tackle animation happens on like 20% of plays.

12. The dimensions of the field to player are way off. The field size should be increased significantly. players on the ground measure 3 yds. you're telling me that a stardard size player is 9 ft tall? The field feels really small, but in an NFL game the field looks huge compared to the players.

13. What happened to the QB pocket? you said it was going to be in the game, yet you never have to step up in the pocket.

14. Consecutive hit tackles. ever heard of them? i have 3 players around Brian Westbrook yet only 1 tries to tackl him and the other 2 just dive away from him. its pathetic.

15. The game needs more animations in almost every aspect.

16. It feels like madden 09 for ps2 had more features than madden 10 for xbox 360. I mean sideline catches, and creating your own plays we just taken out of madden. WHY?

***17. Oh any one last crucial thing. The sliders are garbage. when the CPU faces the CPU, the best rushing average they can must is 4 yds per carry. AT BEST. In general, I have tried to tune CPU sliders for the last month and I still cannot get a statistically accurate CPU vs CPU game. its amazingly frustrating.

These aren't minor mistakes. If you are going to call yourself the best football video game, and act like you are such a realistic game, and stress realisticity, MAKE THE GAME REALISTIC. and come out with a roster update every week! we pay 50$ so you guys can make a non-realistic game and take vacations off from making roster updates (which are largely unaccurate to begin with!)

We all know you make just about more money than any other game out there in trms of sales and price per sale. How come you can't get a team of people to come up with some accurate player ratings, instead of just one guy who's rating are garbage. Apparently Donnie Moore doesn't like Calvin johnson, Devin hester, Ray Rice, Cedric Benson, Chris Johnson, or Matt Schaub, yet loves scrubs like Larry Johnson. If the game isn't greatly improved, I think i speak for the rest of NFL fans and realism NFL video games when I say I am deeply dissapointed in madden 10, and if it isn't greatly improved, im not gonna waste my money on madden 11 next year.. At least i know NFL2k can come up with a realistic game.

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