Consider this the death-spasm for the 2010-2011 football season: The first details of Madden 2012 were revealed yesterday during the big game's half-time show.
Wanna know the very first feature EA is revealing about the game? It's surprise onside kicks! Look:
That's not exactly the most earth-shattering revelation ever made, but it's news for football wonks. Honestly, it sounds like a pretty annoying feature if you play online -- I could see an overuse of this option as a major griefing/cheesing tactic. It will have to be very difficult to pull off in order to "work." Let's hope the Madden team balances this out correctly.
More Madden 2012 details are under the cut.
The second detail revealed is a little more technical, so I'll leave it to the official blog to describe the wonders of "tuner sets" in Madden 2012.
"Tuner Sets", introduced in the NHL series and brought into NCAA Football last year, are hugely important to the development of sports games in that they allow us to tune and tweak many existing parts of game code without the major delay that comes from a full title update requiring 1st party console manufacturer approvals. A quick addition to my hacked surprise onside kick code made this feature easily tunable post-ship, and thus much safer against any exploits that may crop up. This isn't the only thing in the tuner sets obviously...we are in the process of moving as many items into these as possible, from gameplay tuning to franchise data to even presentation aspects. We are excited to the possibilities this will open up to our fans in being able to provide live feedback and having us act on it in near real-time. The days of shipping a disc in a box and forgetting about it are long gone, and we want to be at the forefront of blazing new trails in reacting to our audience and improving the game quickly."
Since the new features in the next Madden are likely going to be revealed in dribs and drabs between now and the expected November August release, now is the time to name the features you'd most like to see in the game. Personally, I want the option of a Black Eyed Peas Half-Time show!
Source: Madden NFL Blog
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JayHairston
Bring back Tecmo Bowl IMO.
JayHairston
Bring back Tecmo Bowl imo.
Twizted_Mindz
I dont kno y they jus dont have the sticks to kick the ball.. i dont understand y they changed it in the first place..
Camazing
The blog at EASports says the game will continue to be released in August, like every year. Not November.
VampD77
As a huge football fan, ever since EA got their claws into the NFL License, their quality has declined. Every year, it's the same game with minor upgrades. I didn't buy Madden 11 (First one I have never played) and it doesn't look like I will be buying Madden 12 either. When EA does something good, or the license expires and NFL 2k comes back to life, then we'll chat.
ZORDONofEltar
why doesnt EA make madden every 2 years so that ea has time to make it better than the last.
bedollahite77
lol i can see it now, instead of kicking full power everyone is gonna onside kick it the whole game.
permanent_nirvana
Surprise onside kicks? Really it took them 11 tries to add that?
titanrage83
holy smokes. This is probaly the most genius idea ever. the guy that made this up should get a raise for sure. screw madden, and screw EA. u havent put a good game out since madden 05.
Nub Salad
can we as a people just ignore madden until they do one of 3 things. Make a significant change to the game to warrant a 60 dollar price tag, make it so you don't need to buy a new disc every year for roster updates and a few minor changes and just make it a patch or dlc each year for a reduced price, or just charge 30 dollars for it each year. I mean they are just raping the wallets of football fan gamers. I guess you can say that about lot of sports games, but madden just really seems like they don't make an effort to make the game worth 60 dollars or are even trying that hard and they over hype the hell out of it every single year.
Phategod
The feature I'm most interested in seeing the loss of the exclusivity with the NFL. Lol
Tylerr
Madden has about as much surprise in it as cod games do.
Pippdaddy
Madden comes out August every year, who at G4 heard November? Doesn't matter, I don't go to G4 for reliable release dates. I just hope they add to franchise mode and improve online play. This feature does seem cool though.
bigdawg24
The real question is will Alex Flanagan wear the same blue outfit on the weekly "Extra Point" show for the third year in a row?? You would think a professional journalist would change her outfits once in a while.
CLFresh
Oh boy, that makes me want to buy Madden 12...
JustTheBeginning
This is the best thing they have to show off? A 3 button press shortcut, wow, dont work too hard EA.
MasterNoble6
Ha-HA. I feel sorry for G4 staff having to report on this year after year, and I bet they assign it with everyone pointing and laughing.
benmo316
I'm sick of paying $60 for something that took them a couple weeks to add, and the upgrading the graphics and putting in a new tackle animation. You're not getting my money anymore for Madden. Ha ha and a November release date? Are you kidding me? This might be a first, releasing a sports game a quarter of the way into the actual season.
Asnoochie1
Expected NOVEMBER release? You're going to release a full month an a half into the next season?
badgarok725
well seeing as onside kicks are impossible to pull off in Madden anyway, this might just be useless
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