I wish I could find the article or forum post at OS, where one of the developers said that Madden has a relatively small design team compared with other EA games.
I think that’s the reason by NCAA and Madden are slipping in terms of quality. NCAA and Madden have been been buggy messes. […]
First, high praise for Head Coach. Now, an announcement for patches and downloadable content to address problems brought up on forums, a week before the game goes out? On OS, Phil Frazier posted noting that patches and DLC may address (among other things) kick returns, ghost juking, CPU accuracy, field degradation, CPU sliders, […]
This could be promising for Madden’s franchise mode, which has needed an overhaul for years (e.g. poor draft logic for many years now). From the Madden 2010 lead designer on the OS forums
We’ve had some recent news that I thought I should share with you all…
If you’ve been paying attention to NFL Head Coach […]
I’ve been paying some attention to Madden coverage. A poster at OS/MM with an early copy posted the 1st two rounds of the draft in Madden, as exported from NCAA. The first round had 9 QBs picked and no offensive lineman. A 10th QB (with an overall rating of 71) was picked […]
Madden IQ seems to be one of those EA/Tiburon examples of a good idea that is executed iffily. Testing how good a Madden player is, and then setting difficulty levels based on that? Great idea! I’m excited. But the first “test” is running ability, where you run behind blockers and have […]
More bad news on the licensing front. As reported by Kotaku:
Electronic Arts today announced that they’ve extended their exclusive agreement with the NFL and the Players Association for another three years, meaning the publisher has the only agreement in place with the league for creating licensed football games through the 2012/2013 season.
“We’ve just completed […]
In 1996, Visual Concepts developed Madden 1996 for the PS2. The game was so poor that EA decided to not release the game, and worked with Tiburon on Madden 1997. And from this brief video, you can guess why. Odd camera views, terrible running animations, strange blocking…eek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZHFdRpnHI
