Madden NFL 10 – USAF Thunderbirds

There has been a new presentation addition in Madden NFL 10. Now you will see the USAF Thunderbirds doing flyovers during games.

“It’s actually kind of a funny story how these guys ended up in Madden.

We’re still maintaining a bit of secrecy on many of our presentation upgrades so far this year, but I can mention that we spent a really large amount of time creating a new scripted scene “system” – in essence a better toolset for us to build things with. We were focused on really fixing up our processes and pipelines to make sure that it was extremely easy to add any kind of prop (i.e. a jet), animation (i.e. a player with his hand over his heart), character (i.e.a coach), and visual effect (i.e. smoke) into the game, without requiring the work of an engineer. In Madden’s history, we have never had a real easy time adding things like trophies or fans without a lot of engineering work – after all, we couldn’t even take the helmets off the players until this year. I’ll make sure we do a whole blog on the bonuses of this system and what all it’s gotten us sometime after E3 (when we’re closer to done with all the stuff we’re still working on), but this week it seemed fitting to talk about the genesis of the Thunderbirds pre-game flyover and how we were able to get it all added to Madden NFL 10.”

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