MADDEN 12

Talalo escribió:Demo el 9 de agosto, Packers-Bears

Here are a few highlights of Online Communities:

Online Communities is a response to massive fan feedback requesting the ability to play online without having to worry about cheaters, quitters or gamers that don’t play by the same rules

Each Online Community can have anywhere between 2 and 2,000 members

-- Each gamer can be a part of up to five different Online Communities

-- When creating a Community, you have the option to leave it open to the public and send invite messages to anyone you like or you can set a Community password that must be entered when other users try to join

The Community creator will set the “house rules”

-- Every game option and slider in Madden NFL 12 will be editable and can be applied to all head-to-head game within the Community

-- The Community creator can give members “Manager Permissions” that allow them to promote other members to Manager, kick out members, and change Community options and sliders

All Online Community games will be ranked on a Community Leaderboard

-- Individual stats will be tracked and ranked

-- Recent game results will be displayed for the entire community to see

Online Communities works with Online Team Play (OTP)

-- You will be able to team up with members of your Community to play 3 vs. 3 games against other Communities

-- Each Community will have its own private lobby room where you can chat with your fellow members and gather teammates to take on other Communities.

-- From the lobby, you can view a box score and participants of games in progress

-- Every Community will be ranked against the rest of the world on the Community Team Play Leaderboard

-- Squads are back, boosts are gone, and all of your stats for all six squads will be recorded and ranked in the Squad Stats Leaderboard

-- Your individual Team Play squad stats in one Community will carry over into all your other Communities

-- Grieving rules will be in place – individuals who cause excessive delay of game or encroachment penalties will get kicked out of the game

-- The classic Madden NFL camera is back on both sides of the ball

oreimono escribió:Y yo con la red medio ocupada, la pongo en cola, junto con el rubgy

jankovic escribió:

oreimono escribió:Y yo con la red medio ocupada, la pongo en cola, junto con el rubgy

Yo este año no me compro el maddenn a no ser que se hablen maravillas de el ,que lo dudo

Makrakas escribió:Soy yo o gráficamente cada año es peor. Las animaciones son correctas en momentos concretos, pero están patéticamente enlazadas, además los jugadores parecen jorobados y corren que parece que alguien les haya metido una patata en el cu... Y siguen con la puñetera manía de fijar la cámara en la cabeza de los jugadores en las animaciones entre jugadas, queda como el culo.

Quizá me lo pille porque llevo dos años sin él y tengo mono, no por convencimiento.

The very first impression is that the menus are an improvement, which should be expected. The menus in sports games should look fresh and new each year as it's one of the simplest ways to make gamers realize this is an all new experience. But that's only semantics.

The first game I played was my Chiefs vs. Buccaneers. It's kind of a tradition for me to match up these two teams as a first game in Madden, so why stop now? The graphics have definitely improved, a very noticeable leap up. Will the game "look" better though due to better animations and so forth? Now that's an interesting question, and one that I will wait for a later article to detail. First blush though is that the game feels and looks better.

The improved presentation is clearly noticeable from the get-go, but as I asked in my demo commentary video, how soon until these pregame intros become perfectly skippable?

The kickoff camera is a nice broadcast touch. The controls feel tighter this year, which means Madden could already be noticeably better in my mind. But again, too early to really get into that.

The Gameflow has been tweaked, as with all other "major" EA features, to become more a part of the game instead of being thrown in your face. However, it seems like whenever a new feature like this is thrown in our face year one and then sort of sinks back into the background a bit in year two, it ends up vanishing from the game completely later on.

The lack of a player-lock camera on defense means defense is incredibly stale for me. It's boring and a very clear step behind NCAA. Simply put, half of the game is unchanged in my mind, and it has little to no value to the player right now. Player lock was finally something that spruced up the feeling of playing defense on a more experiential level. I don't even know if it's worth talking about defense in too much depth at this point because I'm sure many are simply going to get bored with playing defense if they have played Madden at all in the last 10 years. Of course, I will talk about it, but it's frustrating to say the least.

The player running animations seem improved. However, then I watched the game from a broadcast angle, and they still looked off. From the typical player angle, they look adequate. But I don't think the running animations look as great if they're seen from a TV broadcast angle.

The commentary seems to be improved a bit. I don't want to turn Gus Johnson off quite yet, but how will I feel after 20-30 games? Only time will tell.

Wrapping It Up

Overall, my first impressions are that the game still has some "Madden problems" of prior years, but it feels better in a lot of other areas. It's a very mixed bag for me right now with this game, so we'll see where my impressions go in the coming days.

This is a shallow first run through of things before I get into the meat and potatoes of the game in the coming days. Look for my gameplay piece tomorrow, and then I'll be diving into career and online modes after that.

(The Chiefs won 24-20 for the record, as it should be.)

LuNg escribió:Ya direis que tal esta respecto a la demo, a mi la demo me dejo muy mal sabor de boca sobretodo en los pases me parecieron horrorosos y solo me gustaron las jugadas de carrera, eso unido a la nota de Metacritic que le dan un 80 y los usuarios una media de 6.4 pos pasando.... me esperare al Madden 13 xD