Impressions on the new system Gameflow:

2010-2011 edition NFL Madden video game is the famous series dedicated to football which revises and checks to make realistic animations such steps as the steps. The Madden NFL series live the paradox – not so much paradoxical – to be the second title for sales in the U.S., second only to Call of Duty, and the marginal product in the wider world. On the other hand, as fans of American football is a bit annidino’ anywhere, it is normal for a title dedicated to moving large numbers only in the U.S., what with the popularity of different sports, either by the complexity of approach. In an attempt to balance things a bit, but obviously can not hope to change it in the best-selling world, EA has decided to risk a bit ‘and act on what are the foundations of the NFL Madden video game.

Uninterrupted Flow:

Data on the habits of Madden gamers are almost frightening. On average the playbook of a team has played over three hundred, but a gamer it uses less than twenty. The average game lasts sixty minutes, but the average gamer gets tired after a dozen. If we add to the confusion that the interface and the plethora of screens and options can generate a non- enthusiast, it is clear that to reach a wider audience it was necessary to intervene on their management tactics, the foundation of the series since the beginning. An intervention is not a small, short, inserted between the other year after a season in which Madden NFL has the highest ratings scrape of his career.

This change is expressed with Gameflow, a new management system that automates the selection of tactical schemes. In practice, leaving the role of coach and dress only those players : before each snap, the virtual coach selects the most appropriate scheme based on game situation, the attitudes of the team, the team’s gameplan true that are using. The choice is communicated to the screen and through headphones , and of course you can always see the signs on the playground. It is therefore a mechanism is a bit ‘ more advanced than the advice of John Madden, who already existed for many editions. On paper it seems a blasphemy, but once in the field you realize that in fact the idea makes sense, it works, makes it much more fluid pace of play. And anyway, who wants to return to the old method can still do it.