Video: Man tackle with Madden NFL 09

wow not really that impressed....pretty disappointed actually

Looks the same as the last few years. I didn't see one new tackle. Is EA ever going to improve this game again? Looks like another $60 roster update with a few new celebrations.

Wow that is an embarassment to video games.

I am pretty sure Rockstar could create better tackling animations with Europhia in a month.

You're right Dustin, Euphoria is definetly needed GTAIV has spoiled me greatly.

I could turn on GTA4 and tackle someone in the street with Niko that would look better than that.

That is really a shame that 09 wont have euphoria and they expect us to settle for this crap.

I bet madden 10?? 2010, whatever they hell they will call it will have something like that.

huge disappointment.

Why can't EA give us good gang tackles? And why must every tackle be the ball carrier breaking the tackle or him getting his head taken off? This game looks just like all the same shit we got for the last few years.

Same shit, different year, yet it will still sell millions.

They need to bring in some outside elements of football into the game. For example: (Superstar Mode) Be able to buy houses, cars, etc. with the money that you would actually get if you were to play in the NFL. To me, that would be something worth buying, isntead of implimenting one new thing (tackle or catch more than likely) into the upcoming game.

I am going to hold out hope for Backbreaker it looks like it could really be good and madden is just getting worse and worse

For the first time in over 10 years, I'm not buying a football game this year. Madden is a joke and has not improved in any significant way at all over the last generation.
The higher res graphics are nice but far from what I would have hoped for this gen, and no where near as impressive as most other big budget games out there.

I absolutely despise EA and just about every game they make.
I hope the aquisition of Take Two somehow falls apart.

EA is slowly but surely destroying our favorite hobby.

I don't even want to think about how they will ruin the Mass Effect franchise and many others that they buy from here out.

Someone contact X360Fanboy and tell them they posted a Madden 08 video by mistake.

Are they ever going to get the Browns road uniforms right? I am sick of seeing them with white jerseys and brown pants. They never wear those.

Hahaha! Wow, god damn EA for their exclusivity. Remember when 2k5 came out and every one was so excited because it had so much cool new shit? That will never happen again...

Actually EA has done a great job this year compared to the previous ones.

Features announced so far:

- New commentary with Tom Hammond and Chris Collinsworth

- Revamped weather system

- In game stat tracker and replays

- Ability to do on the fly subs

- Customized TD celebrations

- Ability to return missed field goals

- Ability to have the camera zoomed out during a pass play to see every receiver at once.


I know all this stuff should already be in the game, but at least it's going to be in now. Better late than never. The other big sports franchises, NBA 2K, NBA Live, NFL Tour, MLB: The Show, NBA: The Life, MLB 2K, NHL 2K, etc. either made no big improvements this year or the game sucked to begin with.

For me, football comes before videogames, so it doesn't matter to me what they do every year. I'll likely still buy it. I like the updated rosters, but of course it doesn't hurt if they throw in a few more things. The franchise could be much worse than it is people. They could literally do nothing every year and still see decent sales. Let's be thankful they don't.


It seems like most of the people here either don't play sports games at all and jump on the Madden hating bandwagon to seem cool, and the rest either hate EA as a company and just despise their franchises out of spite (although almost no one despises Rock Band) or just like to annually bitch during every summer before the game comes out while they have their break before they go into high school.

Actually NFL with Euphoria already exists. None other than NaturalMotion itself is developing Backbreaker for 360 and PS3. Check it out at:

http://www.backbreakergame.com/

WHY DOESNT MADDEN 09 HAVE THE OAKLEY VISOR LOGO OR NFL TEAM LOGO AT THE TOP (LIKE NCAA 09) NOR DO THEY HAVE THE SIDE CLAPS THAT ATTACH THE VISOR TO THE MASK? NCAA 09 SEEMS TO HAVE IT TOGETHER. WHY NOT MADDEN???

Yeah, I agree. Im a BIGGGG Browns fan and i hate the brown pants, to me, it makes the game very un realistic! but i have seen a screen shot once this year with the white on white road uniforms S Shaun Jones was defending a pass. So they may have it right this year, ive noticed they have black shoes as well.