1 receiving target in single-player The Yard. That’s why Jalen Ramsey - a defensive back in real life - was my No. Players not only perform on both offense and defense in The Yard, they also develop along multiple playing styles, rather than specializing in a single position or physical characteristic.
It’s a much more limited playbook, and the plays are essentially just jumping-off points for the emerging gameplay.” A “punch-pass” is one of the razzle-dazzle plays available in Madden NFL 21’s The Yard. “Eighty percent of your success in The Yard is what you create on the field. “We don’t really have pre-play adjustments,” Kellams continued, although there are things like hot routes and individual blitz assignments. For a lot of people in 11-on-11, 80% of your success is your playcalling, your pre-play adjustments. “One of the things people have hit on is that standard, 11-on-11 football (in a video game) doesn’t necessarily meet their expectation of exactly how this play needs to go. “One of the things that The Yard has going for it, as a new way to play Madden, is how emergent the gameplay has become in that mode,” Kellams said. The Yard has a very small playbook, with everyone running some kind of passing route, so the direct snap to someone taking a backfield route, or a screen route, is how you get a running play, rather than with a handoff. The center stands to the side of the ball, flag football-style, and can flip it to a wideout as easily as he can the designated quarterback.
Probably the most important twist, for The Yard’s goal of exciting, improvised plays, is the ability to snap the ball to any of the five other players on the field. Big plays end with calls to “add a little salt,” or “tell ’em who’s boss,” by picking a celebration with the right stick (a feature available in Madden 21’s other modes, too). Bonus points are awarded for interceptions or recovered fumbles. Rules can change from match to match, and they allow for things like multiple forward passes behind the line of scrimmage (for example, a shovel pass to a wide receiver running a sweep, who rolls out and spears a teammate streaking down the sideline). Most of the razzle dazzle comes from improvising the play after the ball is snapped, rather than running around on fire or playing perk cards. But it’s not NFL Street or NFL Blitz, either. It’s not flag football there are helmets, pads, and big hits galore. The Yard is a six-on-six game of American football, with players handling both offensive and defensive roles, and capable of doing everything, anywhere on the field. But the game it plays is, distinctively and familiarly, football, albeit with fewer players and its sludgier parts rinsed off. The Yard borrows a lot of its presentation, progression, and player customization from the alternate modes that Madden’s siblings have delivered over the past three years - FIFA’s Volta Football, NHL’s World of Chel, NBA Live’s The Streets.
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In my defense, and The Yard’s, over an hourlong hands-on trial I arrived at these comparisons after I did something right, rather than when I hit a problem or needed a solution. But among his designers, “Anyone who brought up basketball or any other sport, I made them put $1 in a square jar,” Kellams said, “because we needed to solve new problems for football, not understand how other sports have solved things, in a culture that already has that right, like street basketball.” The EA Tiburon producer in charge of The Yard understands that people will inevitably compare his version of American football to other sports, particularly free-flowing ones where the ball is continually in play.
This would cost me $3 to say, if I were saying it in J.P. When my created player snapped the ball - standing sideways over it - then hauled in a short pass and lateraled to an AI teammate trailing the play, it seemed vaguely rugby-ish. Another, a double pass in the backfield before I bombed the Rams’ Jalen Ramsey on a seam route, resembled an old-fashioned ball reversal from basketball. One of the plays I grilled up in Madden NFL 21’s new “The Yard” mode reminded me of hockey players cycling the puck before a slap shot.
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