On a more positive note, since seeing the work LucasArts was doing with new physics engines, I've been hoping that Madden Football would adapt the new physics engines into the game, making the game based on real physics instead of algorithms meant to simulate the result of physics. Of course, that would take some amount of innovation to actually change the game engine they've been using for near a decade while bilking America out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

This lame, and necessarily unlicensed football game is using NaturalMotion to make everything in the game physics based. No precanned animations for blocking, tackling, or anything else. Of course, player ability will still need to be applied to the physics model, but the end result will make Madden look decidedly stupid once they fully adapt the engine to football and polish the models.

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