Madden for Wii Interview; Nunchuck Rumours Confirmed

EA always gets a bad attitude from gamers, and I for one feel it’s unwarranted. Many just go along with the flow because they think dissing EA makes them “hardcore.” Well, you’d better knock one bullet off your list for when you criticize them because “lazy” isn’t there. An interview with IGN reveals that they’re not just adding a few controller features to their flagship title, Madden, and calling it a day. They’ve created a huge group consisting of many smaller groups at EA Canada to create Wii titles and one of their first tasks is to create a Wii-specific Madden.

“When you go to hike the ball, for instance, as opposed to pressing a button you simply jerk the controller up. Boom, you snap the ball. When you want to pass the ball, you gesture a throwing motion while holding the button down to the intended receiver. When you want to stiff-arm left or right, you juke with the nunchuck controller literally. When you want to kick, you gesture the kick motion.”

The man in charge, self-proclaimed Nintendo Fanboy John Schappert, said he’s opposed to companies just slapping a few gimmicky features into their multiplatform games and calling it done. His team has more than one game in the works to take advantage of the Wii. He also had something more interesting to say when asked about how the nunchuck expansion would be used, “…we are still working on the final button layout, but it does use the trigger buttons, and it does use the accelerometer in the nunchuck unit as well for juking.” It looks like we’re gonna be getting ready for some sword and shield action with Zelda Revolution!

Madden 2007 should be ready for the Wii by launch. Click “Read” for the full interview.

EA always gets a bad attitude from gamers, and I for one feel it’s unwarranted. Many just go along with the flow because they think dissing EA makes them “hardcore.” Well, you’d better knock one bullet off your list for when you criticize them because “lazy” isn’t there. An interview with IGN reveals that they’re not just adding a few controller features to their flagship title, Madden, and calling it a day. They’ve created a huge group consisting of many smaller groups at EA Canada to create Wii titles and one of their first tasks is to create a Wii-specific Madden.

“When you go to hike the ball, for instance, as opposed to pressing a button you simply jerk the controller up. Boom, you snap the ball. When you want to pass the ball, you gesture a throwing motion while holding the button down to the intended receiver. When you want to stiff-arm left or right, you juke with the nunchuck controller literally. When you want to kick, you gesture the kick motion.”

The man in charge, self-proclaimed Nintendo Fanboy John Schappert, said he’s opposed to companies just slapping a few gimmicky features into their multiplatform games and calling it done. His team has more than one game in the works to take advantage of the Wii. He also had something more interesting to say when asked about how the nunchuck expansion would be used, “…we are still working on the final button layout, but it does use the trigger buttons, and it does use the accelerometer in the nunchuck unit as well for juking.” It looks like we’re gonna be getting ready for some sword and shield action with Zelda Revolution!

Madden 2007 should be ready for the Wii by launch. Click “Read” for the full interview.