Awsome, good article. I was wondering the extensive list, Cash had posted something along these lines when the whole "weapons" thing was first announced.
Apparently ESPN doesn't pay attention to gaming sites, lol.
The weapons have been known for several months, as report by IGN, Gamespy, and Gamespot too.
Still, good information. I think this will finally seperate the men from the boys, so to speak. No longer will Chad Johnson or LT feel like every other WR and RB in the game, but instead it seems like they'll make huge impacts in a game, as they often do in real life.
Can't wait to see some of these 'weapons' make game changing plays. I just hope it isn't too over powered or they give one team too many 'weapons' or it might cause some inbalance.
Yeah. Sounds awesome. Forenci, I don't know if they will be overpowered as most of them are just temporary boosts to the stats. Making a RB a little faster will give the player the slight edge. That's what we want. The only ones that might be like overpowered are "Spectacular Catch Receiver" "Power Back" "Stiff Arm Ball Carrier" and "Shutdown Corner" Hopefully, they don't make it so people only pick one team to win online. Too much truckstick isn't realistic. We'll soon see.
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Sorry to double post, but I also like the fact that they put in counters for every weapon. Here's a video explaining it in depth.
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Hmmm sounds to me like they could have just given those players better attributes or factored it into progression for guys that do well in those areas to become "weapons"... I don't have time to read the article right now though so I could be wrong.
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They really should have given JP Losman the "Crucial Fumbler" weapon. It makes it so that whenever the team is in a situation where he needs to come out big, that he gets sacked and fumbles the ball
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Yeah this has been known for a good while... But I really like the idea of it, and the idea that the "elite" will become more pronounced...
But a few things..Can you earn new weapons? Can you lose weapons like you can a role in 07? Can you be more than one weapon?
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Yeah this has been known for a good while... But I really like the idea of it, and the idea that the "elite" will become more pronounced...
But a few things..Can you earn new weapons? Can you lose weapons like you can a role in 07? Can you be more than one weapon?
It'll be interesting to see which way they go with it, the superstar variation where you pick an attribute, or the franchise variation where they can stack.
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They really should have given JP Losman the "Crucial Fumbler" weapon. It makes it so that whenever the team is in a situation where he needs to come out big, that he gets sacked and fumbles the ball
Him and Dante Culpepper .....
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Yeah this has been known for a good while... But I really like the idea of it, and the idea that the "elite" will become more pronounced...
But a few things..Can you earn new weapons? Can you lose weapons like you can a role in 07? Can you be more than one weapon?
Yeah I read the whole thing on the attributes like monts ago at IGN ... but i can always look over it again in anticipation of Madden's release ....
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Another thing I'd like to point out that I read is that a lot of these players who are 'weapons', will also get weapon-specific animations. Like big catch receivers are suppose to have a lot of new jumping and leaping catches, that some non-weapons might not have. Should be cool.
I'm sure you can earn new weapons...I think it'd be ridiculous if you couldn't as once all these current weapons retired, there goes that new feature in your franchise mode.
It sounds like those "titles" they give each players (like when you're increasing their stats in training camp it says "Possession WR", "Speed WR", etc) and awarding the elite of them weapon status.
I'm glad to see they recognized Harris as a shutdown CB.
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They really should have given JP Losman the "Crucial Fumbler" weapon. It makes it so that whenever the team is in a situation where he needs to come out big, that he gets sacked and fumbles the ball
nah...he could improve as a player on the game and still be stuck with that. then you'd be pissed.
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Sounds like this dude named Romo as well.....
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I still can't believe how close to a 1st he was when he got taken down.
Sounds awesome. Really like the list of the Weapons available for 08. Can't wait till it comes out and I'm able to see if this stuff all lives up to the hype I surround it with before hand!
This looks like fun, It'll be pokemon with football players.
Oh Man I just saw this and that had to be the funniest "One post wonder" I have ever seen.
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Last year with the addition of roles really was a nice touch. These "weapons" will definately be fun as long as they aren't over the top or overpowered. I remember busting my *** (well my WR/KR/PRs) to get him the burner role lol. My buddy was so mad at me when I finally did and he couldn't.
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