Madden NFL 10 – Tipped Passes At The Line

This week in the GameStop Blog they have guest columnist Ian Cummings talking about ‘tipped passes at the line’ being improved within Madden NFL 10.

That brings me to this seemingly small addition, “Tipped Passes at the line”. On its own, this may sound like a lower-priority improvement (I thought so, too, initially), but in reality, this one addition has added a wealth of strategy, drama and fun to the game that was missing before. How did we do it? Well, it’s simple enough… the very first thing we did was add some intelligent logic for defenders to put their hands up to try and bat down passes. When we put this in initially as a prototype, nearly every pass got batted down at the line. D’oh! So we went scouring through NFL footage to find some more accurate percentages of how many passes are tipped, who does the tipping and when it happens, so we could tune our numbers more realistically. Then we also decided to tie the likelihood (and accuracy) of the bat-down to the Awareness rating of the defensive lineman.

I really enjoy that they are trying to make the game so much more realistic. At the same time though you have to wonder how many more glitches will come with it. Unfortunately that’s the way of gaming.

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