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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1EYmajYu0&eurl=

This is a video detailing how Madden Wii controls. Apparently it plays like a context sensitive QTE game. But instead of visual prompts of your buttons, you get visual prompts from your players. On your breakaway run all you do is move your remote in the direction of the baddy and you'll stiff arm him. If the pass looks like it's too high up, pull both sticks up.

It's like short tiny minigames, but with a context.

And that context is 20th century vicious man on man brutality in front of giant crowds of onlookers.

This is how the Wii should be played (if it works like they say it does). It is both intuitive, and it is set within a coherent context. Fuck minigame compilations. This is the kind of shit that the Wii should do.

Omg, I want to buy a Madden game.
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Lestrade · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:15 am Post subject:

Knowing nothing of football, I know I would at least like to try this game because it certainly looks interesting. That's the first time I've ever said that of a football game, which goes to show you something!

FortNinety · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:25 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately when I saw a bunch of Madden diehards, the same folks who buy the same damn game year after year, and love it, were so not into the contorls when they gave it a spin at DigitalLife. One guy gave it a shot for a solid five minutes (at least from what I saw), with a patient EA rep by his side, that in the end he almost threw the Wii-mote at the floor and yelled out "Fuck this shit, Madden belongs on Play-Station!" And a bunch of his buddies sorta cheered and gave each other skin.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

That does sound very unfortunate. Although it's not anything unexpected.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That sounds wack, holmes. I don't like how the Wiimote is being used as the gateway to a million invisible buttons you can 'press' by doing some prescribed action, instead of as a new wave analogue controller.

So far Wii Baseball is about the only one that uses it properly as far as I've seen, since your movements seem to correspond exactly with the movement of the onscreen bat. The ball is affected by your real swing, rather than whether the computer recognised your swing as 'smash_hit_1'.

Monkey Ball seems promising, since you're tilting the playing field by tilting the wiimote, but other developers need to get their shit together.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

That's the thing. They're not just buttons. They're natural movements just programmed to be understood by the Wii.

Gah. I want one so bad...
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Hey! I used to work with that guy!

Or at least he was the Producer of MLB 2K4 at Blue Shift when I was a tester on that project. I would have to drive down from San Rafael to Palo Alto and test the game in their offices as we tried to get the game ready for submission. Back then he looked a little more like David Cross, since he had the nerd-frame glasses and a goatee.

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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

You guys can't seriously have thought that a group of gamers who care more about whether their favorite player has on the right pair of shoes than how the game plays would have been interested more intuitive controls. That's just crazy talk.

-Wes
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Legal Step · . Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Los Angeles

I think it looks kind of fun, much more than madden's been in the past.

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

I was in EBGames the other day and I heard someone say "Whoa, Madden '01?! I didn't know Madden went back that far!".

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

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Pijaibros · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject:

that's a mighty impressive screenshot of praxinoscope madden

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Its features included the introduction of protective headgear and the all-new Forward Lateral Mode for quarterbacks.
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ApM · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

s/Madden/(Street Fighter|Guilty Gear|King of Fighters)/g

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

From watching friends play NBA Live every year, I can tell you that they deserve to be nitpicky. It may sound like BS when they yell out "yo the game CHEATED!" but it really isn't. A lot of sports games, far as I can see, simply up the difficulty by cheating. The ball goes through a guy's chest, flies the opposite direction into someone's hands, gives the computer (or the player, depending) ridiculous scoring ability, etc.
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