{"id":1598,"date":"2009-08-07T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/madden-10-countdown-august-14-is-almost-here\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:03:25","slug":"madden-10-countdown-august-14-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/madden-10-countdown-august-14-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 10 Countdown:  August 14 is almost here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are officially one week out from the arrival of <em>Madden 10<\/em>.  A week and a day away from the Falcon\u2019s first preseason game in Detroit.  Maybe more importantly we are two weeks away from my oldest son turning eleven-teen.  Let the countdowns begin!<\/p>\n<p>I have been enjoying Bill Abner\u2019s <em>Madden 10<\/em> posts at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nutweasel.blogspot.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/nutweasel.blogspot.com\/', 'The Nut and the Feisty Weasel');\" target=\"new\">The Nut and the Feisty Weasel<\/a><\/em>.  I have picked up a few interesting points from Mr. Abner\u2019s posts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n-sliders work; adjustments are noticeable<br \/>\n-sliders need to be adjusted on All-Pro to enable AI rushing to be effective<br \/>\n-offensive linemen do not always block correctly<br \/>\n-WRs pickup a lot of extra YAC because receivers may be too hard to tackle<br \/>\n-unpredictably in a good way; the game has some randomness to gameplay elements<br \/>\n-some teams HB actually split carries, but backup HBs average very few yards per rush attempt<br \/>\n-draft AI looks to be much improved; rookie ratings are not over the top\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am really looking forward to <em>Madden 10<\/em>.  Why?  I have not played in videogame football in months.  I passed on <em>NCAA Football 10<\/em>.  Perhaps most important, this new version of <em>Madden<\/em> actually looks improved and fun to play.<\/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>We are officially one week out from the arrival of Madden 10. A week and a day away from the Falcon\u2019s first preseason game in Detroit. Maybe more importantly we are two weeks away from my oldest son turning eleven-teen. Let the countdowns begin! I have been enjoying Bill Abner\u2019s Madden 10 posts at The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/madden-10-countdown-august-14-is-almost-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 10 Countdown:  August 14 is almost here.<\/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":[30,21,9],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}