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The NFL draft is over and minicamp season is upon us, so it is time to start getting ready for the next installment of the Madden series. And if you haven't been keeping up with the announcements from the dev team, there are a lot of new Madden 2010 features that you are really going to love.
New Madden 2010 Features:
Realistic Football. The theme of Madden 2010 is to focus on providing a more realistic football experience. The Madden 2010 features that cover this area include Procedural Awareness, which allows the game to keep up with where the players are looking, and QB improvements, including breaking the accuracy stat into short, medium and long accuracy as well as tracking the ability to throw on the run or fool people with the play action.
Quarterbacks will also be able to throw as they are being hit, which might turn out to be a great play, or they could end up throwing a flutter ball.
The WR-DB interaction is also improving. Not only will Procedural Awareness mean that DBs will have to turn and look for the ball instead of immediately snapping around, but the WR route running and DB coverage skills will be much more defined by related skills.
Finally, more emphasis is going to be put on a player's weight, especially in the blocking game. This means that 190lb 93 speed defensive end might just get put on his butt when trying to go up against the 330lb right tackle. Weight will also be a factor in how hard someone hits when tackling.
Expanded Stats, Realistic Speed and Better Stat Progression. The team has really retooled the stats to expand the range. This means there will be a bigger difference between average players and superstars. As an example, the route running ability in Madden 09 could range from 62-99. In Madden 2010, it will range from 35-99.
Player speed is also being tuned to be a bit more realistic to what we see on Sundays. This might be one of the most important Madden 2010 features as speed is one of the most important stats in the game. Besides just going for more realism, the team is also taking into account speed when a player tries to turn, so no more 90 degree cuts at full speed.
Player progression is also being tweaked to be more realistic, with younger players progressing faster and older players digressing faster.
Wildcat Formation. Yep, the Wildcat is making it into Madden. You can check out some of the Wildcat Screens.
Depth of Field. The graphical style of Madden 2010 is changing to include depth of field, which will make players and objects up close really stick out against the slightly blurred background of objects and players that are further away. Check out the screenshot at the end of the article for a great example.
Adaptive AI. Last, we come to what might end up being the coolest of the new Madden 2010 features. The Adaptive AI in Madden 2010 will allow the game to keep track of the plays being called by the player. If you've found a money play that you are running a lot, the opposing players will catch onto it and will defend it better. The opposing coach will also be a bit brighter, calling more flat coverage if you send your HBs into the flats for quick passes and calling more QB spy defenses if you do a lot of scrambling runs with the QB.
This features should really help keep us on our toes a bit more and make us mix up our playcalling. It is easy to fall into a comfortable rhythm of calling the same basic plays over and over again, and this feature will help break us out of that rhythm.
Keep up with all of the Madden 2010 features as the information is released.
Read up on what's new in NCAA Football 2010.
Comments
is madden going to have dna helmets
Madden 2009 and previous hade DNA helmets but I know way kind of helmets ur talking about the kind that chris cooley wears with the crazy facemask I do not know if this will be in the game but if they are day would be sick
Is Michael Vick going to be in the game.
Is Brett Favre goning to be in the game? possibly as a free agent?
is player progression during the season coming back, what about actual mini camp drills
Is madden going to have some sort of pregame postgame or halftime presentation? Like espn with TO on da cover. They had great presentations which inspired many people to play their game. It's been my prayer for many years. LET US SEE the ANNOUNCERS AGAIN! At least madden 98 tried. It had madden himself up on the game. That was the good old time.
was there anything this year that really changed the way you play the game
When are we going to see a REAL play editor? Where you can create any play imaginable, where I draw every route for every player in DETAIL. Anybody remember the play editor on the very first Madden for the PC back in 1989-1991? That's what I'm talking about. EA did it right in the very first game they made, but has never implemented it since. A real strategy is being able to be creative IN EVERY WAY with your plays. If I want to line up and run the wishbone and send players in motion and run the Option, I should be able to CREATE that with my own uniqueness that I wish to pour into the play. The first Madden game NAILED this right, but every Madden game sense has given a very poor play editor (if we can even call them that).
Daniel
I'd like to see a pregame, halftime, and postgame show. Along with being able to create your own plays in franchise mode
y dont they put the injury cart or the training staff on the field when a player gets hurt
HOW COME PAYTON MANNING AND A LOT OF KICKERS HAVE DIFFERENTS HELMETS ON THE GAME,THAN THEY DO IN REAL LIFE? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REALISM OF HELMETS FLYING OFF SOMETIMES WIT HARD HITS BACK IN THE PS2 DAYS
I wish they made the challenges more specific like in the ESPN 2k5 game.
Can you put a better soundtrack on the game
I'd like for Madden to have like a NFL Primetime Highlight (Bob Costas or Chris Berman) reel after ther games...
This game is the truth but it still need a little work like have some people out on the field when they get hurt. Does it have a halftime show, or something because i did see one. i looking forward to play the real game................
i think the stats suck
michael vick needs to be in this game.they need to try to have real faces for every player out dere not jus made up computer faces.i hate that.
i would like chris berman to be an announcer instead of chris collinsworth. Chris is just really annoying. and he never stops talking, like a women
I think yall should put michael vick on the game though...Also i think yall should work on the turf or grass more...lol but i guess i hope it come out to be a good game to play....
I Think yall should put more sports intertainers on the side lines....yall should put andrea on the feild k
vick probabally won't be on the game since he was signed the day they released madden just make him yourself
He just might, considering last year, for example, when Brett Favre was on the Nfl Greats section and all. Maybe thus, Mv will be on free agents.
i wish there was a first person view like on nfl 2k5. I wish u could look out your superstars helmet dat would be baller.
wow those pics are racist...they are all black people in the stands
madden 10 is raw aight
Madden 2010 is as real as it gets everybody stay screaming out that animated things to add forgetting that this aint dreamcast2k. Its real game play.best shi$ moving.grown mans game
man dis madden 10 tough fuc yall talkin bout
madden 2010 is crack
man madden is the bomb nikka
larry fitzergerald and Troy Pallamuru is the best nfl players ever including mick vick
ya its ok but needs improvement
Dude madden 2010 is tha bomb yo. I be rapen my peeps wit Jamaal Charles. KC Chiefs---- best team on da game faks
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