Madden 360 To Look Like... Madden

Ev!L-aLphA · Sep 13, 2005, 04:30 AM

Remember that "Madden Next-Gen" footage EA released earlier in the year? You know, the one with the great animation and individual snowflakes and ridiculous level of detail. Well, there's finally some new footage available. Unfortunately, in a turn of events that might hypothetically in the future be referred to as "pulling a Killzone", the new footage is somewhat underwhelming compared to what we were shown before--and EA even claimed it would get better than what they had on display.

The new video certainly looks quite nice, and it continues to improve graphically on what has been done in the series, but it's something of a letdown after the earlier promises. For those in doubt, 1UP has confirmed with EA that the video released today is in fact new. While 1UP speculates that the animation could be "placeholder", that seems a bit unlikely. Especially in a game focuses this heavily on individual character models, it seems a bit late in the game to be publically releasing placeholder animation as trailer material.

Source: Shacknews

Ev!L-aLphA · Sep 13, 2005, 04:32 AM

not surprising to me. i knew this since the first day i saw that footage.

EcPercy · Sep 13, 2005, 07:22 AM

Let Down = EA

Millions Knives · Sep 13, 2005, 08:26 AM

I think it should have been obvious that the game wasn't going to look any like the trailer. There isn't anything to be excited about when EA is the developer because they just buy the exclusive rights to the licenses for whatever it is if someone releases a game that they know is better than theirs. Won't be long till they take the NHL license next.

Sep 13, 2005, 04:30 AM	#1
Ev!L-aLphA \| n f e c t e D Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,111 Rep Power: 0	Madden 360 To Look Like... Madden Remember that "Madden Next-Gen" footage EA released earlier in the year? You know, the one with the great animation and individual snowflakes and ridiculous level of detail. Well, there's finally some new footage available. Unfortunately, in a turn of events that might hypothetically in the future be referred to as "pulling a Killzone", the new footage is somewhat underwhelming compared to what we were shown before--and EA even claimed it would get better than what they had on display. The new video certainly looks quite nice, and it continues to improve graphically on what has been done in the series, but it's something of a letdown after the earlier promises. For those in doubt, 1UP has confirmed with EA that the video released today is in fact new. While 1UP speculates that the animation could be "placeholder", that seems a bit unlikely. Especially in a game focuses this heavily on individual character models, it seems a bit late in the game to be publically releasing placeholder animation as trailer material. Source: Shacknews __________________ R.I.P 8/8/04 4/21/08

Sep 13, 2005, 04:32 AM	Thread Starter #2
Ev!L-aLphA \| n f e c t e D Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,111 Rep Power: 0	not surprising to me. i knew this since the first day i saw that footage. __________________ R.I.P 8/8/04 4/21/08

Sep 13, 2005, 08:26 AM	#4
Millions Knives To The Face Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 107 Rep Power: 0	I think it should have been obvious that the game wasn't going to look any like the trailer. There isn't anything to be excited about when EA is the developer because they just buy the exclusive rights to the licenses for whatever it is if someone releases a game that they know is better than theirs. Won't be long till they take the NHL license next. __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3200+ \| ASUS K8V SE Deluxe \| 3x512 Kingston HyperX PC4000 2-3-5-2 \| Western Digital 160 GB 7200rpm \| Maxtor 160 GB 7200rpm \| BFG GeForce 6800GT OC @ Stock \| Pioneer DVD-ROM 120s 16x40x \| HP 420i 8x4x12x DVD+-R\DVD+-RW \| Samsung 955DF 1280x1024 @75HZ \| Creative Audigy2 ZS \| Antec TRUE430 430w.

Sep 13, 2005, 07:22 AM	#3
EcPercy HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Iraq Posts: 1,535 Rep Power: 0	Let Down = EA