Madden 10 reviews

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Originally Posted by mooby

Agreed on both counts. I love how they've got JC's throwing motion and stance down, it makes it feel so much more realistic.

My big gripe with the game was the "my skill" thing I did. I hadn't played Madden since '08 came out so I was slightly rusty but I didn't do too good on the skill thing that determines your skill level.

But for some reason when it came to the pass defense it rated me as a mid-All Pro. The only reason for that was because I was pretty successful at using my d-line guy to get pressure on the qb and force a bad throw. But as a result of it scoring me high in the games I've been getting lit up on pass defense despite getting pressure on the qb. I couldn't win my first two preseason games in franchise mode because it made Joe Flacco and Roethlisberger look like Tom Brady, gunslingin' the ball all over the place. I can't get picks or sacks or fumbles either, not to mention on the rare occasion I do force a fumble I'm usually too late on playing that fumble pile minigame they got so it usually gives the ball to the other team.

Another thing I was looking forward to was seeing if I could edit packages in the playbook to make certain players play in certain packages. In years past lets say I wanted to make Marcus Washington play end when my nickel d package was on the field well I could do a subsitute and he would play at left end or w/e whenever I ran that package. I was looking forward to taking Orakpo and putting him as the LDE when I wasn't running the 4-3 so he would have a better shot at more sacks when he wasn't on the field as a linebacker but you can't do that apparantly. Maybe they reorganized it or something but I couldn't find it which is disappointing.

You still can. I know on PS3 it's R1 that allows you to sub by formation. Not sure what it is on XBOX but if you pay attention to the prompts under the play select screen you'll see it. All you have to do is select plays by formation instead of play types or ask Madden.

The thing that kind of disappoints me is they still haven't taken care of that OLB/DE glitch thats been around since the PS2 days. Orakpo was originally slated to be rated 80 or something at DE but now that he plays LB he becomes an 85 when you move him. I mean it's great that he's a Skin but they really need to fix that. In the meantime it reminds me of the old days when I would draft David Pollack and Manny Lawson who were rated around 80 at LB and turn them into 90+ DE's.