{"id":1264,"date":"2008-08-01T07:09:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-impressions\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T11:13:15","slug":"madden-09-demo-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 09 (Demo) Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/ps3\/madden09\/madden_09_boxart_02.jpg\" alt=\"Madden 09\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>I spent some time last night with the Madden 09 demo, and to be honest, I am not sure what to think.<\/p>\n<p>You start out by taking a serious of Madden IQ tests.  I\u2019ll throw up mine for all to laugh at (grins and giggles all around please) \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rush Offense (All-Madden @ 20%)<\/li>\n<li>Pass Offense (All-Pro @ 40%)<\/li>\n<li>Rush Defense (Pro @ 80%)<\/li>\n<li>Pass Defense (Rookie @ 80%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I ended up with a measly 509 rating.  Ouch.  So offense was fairly straight forward and easy, but rush defense was really just a guessing game.  If I picked the direction the running back was going to take, I ended up passing the test.  If I guessed wrong, well, that\u2019s why I ended up with a Pro rating.  Pass defense was the worst; I really did not know what buttons to press, so I failed most of the test.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how Madden IQ comes into play with the overall experience.  <a href=\"http:\/\/nutweasel.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/no-cpu-sliders.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/nutweasel.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/no-cpu-sliders.html', 'Bill Abner');\" target=\"new\">Bill Abner<\/a> has the full game (360 version), and as has been reported all over the place, this year\u2019s game does not include CPU sliders.<\/p>\n<p>That is very much a WTF moment.  First, the sliders in NCAA Football 09 were broken.  Now this; no sliders at all.  In theory Madden IQ will somehow level the playing field, which is probably fine for some online games, but not so much for single player games.  Why not just use the NCAA Football 09 \u201cequal teams\u201d feature?<\/p>\n<p>After doing the Madden IQ junk, the demo lets you play a \u201cMadden Moment\u201d \u2013 last year\u2019s Super Bowl.  You are the Giants, down 10-14 with under two minutes.  Fourth and one; Patriots on defense.  You score a TD, you pass the \u201cMadden Moment.\u201d  Fail to score, and you fail the test.<\/p>\n<p>That is the extent of the demo.  You do not get a chance to try out the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>More to come later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time last night with the Madden 09 demo, and to be honest, I am not sure what to think. You start out by taking a serious of Madden IQ tests. I\u2019ll throw up mine for all to laugh at (grins and giggles all around please) \u2026 Rush Offense (All-Madden @ 20%) Pass &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/01\/madden-09-demo-impressions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 09 (Demo) Impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}