Madden NFL 10 Screenshot (Peter Moore Blog)

[djordan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Guillotine 1

Oh snap, I gotta talk to DeeJay (MM). Thats my boy, we go back like flapjacks. Time to get on the phone and spread the good word arcoss these united states of america...and oversees to my real G's!

Ok just woke up from my nap and heard that the towels are fully animated based on player movement... My reaction was...

[LAKE4742]

Great depth-of-field shot!

[jerseyjay14]

id love to see a screen shot of the actual camera angle for gameplay. these close ups look flawless but i want to see what the game is going to look like when we are playing it!!!

[burne]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ian_Cummings_EA

The towel is fully articulated and animating based on the movement of the player. I agree the ball is still slightly big but we actually even reduced it in size almost 10% this year. Here it is in Madden NFL 09: (sorry, couldn't find a pro comparison image) If we make it too much smaller it means we'll have to re-do nearly all of our ball-carrying animations (catches, run cycles, etc) because the ball will no longer be placed correctly. That is obviously a tough sell - to spend hundreds of hours tweaking animation data just to decrease the ball size by 3%. I just wish it had been right in the first place! Argh! Look at the size of it in Madden 06! I'll see what we can do to shrink it just a tad bit more though.

Well, what you could do to make it look better without tweaking all the animations is to at least tweak the color, lighting and shape of it. It's too... shiny, like the specular highlighting is overdone. And when I say shape, I mean how a real football is not perfectly round, but is wider at the seams and slightly flatter on the surfaces.

I know you hear this for a lot of things, but see APF2k8's football. Of the things they did better than Madden, their ball is one of my favorites as this is a pet peeve of mine. It's almost perfect.

[FootballDetails]

We're ready for the next screenshot.

[LAKE4742]

"How many improvements can you pick out? The Madden dev team will call each one out in their blog later this week."

REFS!

[Mrcabone]

Quote: Originally Posted by jerseyjay14

id love to see a screen shot of the actual camera angle for gameplay. these close ups look flawless but i want to see what the game is going to look like when we are playing it!!!

Good point, it's like racing games they show beautiful screenshots but it's usually from an angle you can't play the game from, or do we finally get multiple/customizable camera angles this year.

[Hotlanta]

Just found time to check and wow. Madden '10 is definitely looking like one of those game I can find myself playing for months. I hope we get more screens like this in upcoming blogs but maybe that's to much .

As for the cleats in the screen those aren't new. The ones I've seen people point out on the image are the cleats that most if not all linemen used in 09. Still hoping that they apply colors and variations to cleats. (Someone told me there was some sort of limitation and they could only use reebok brand cleats but I have no clue if that's true. Even if it is there are still other options then what we see ingame)

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