“Madden 25” Art Director Jean Adams Talks Next-Gen Graphics

Review Fix chats with Madden 25″ Art Director Jean Adams, who discusses how the look over “Madden” will change on next-gen consoles, as well as how the development process for the title has been.

Review Fix: How is “Madden NFL 25” different visually on next generation consoles?

Jean Adams: The next generation consoles are great at rendering more geometry. Through our new EA SPORTS IGNITE tech, we are able to render 70,000+ crowd members, every blade of grass on the field and incredible detail in jerseys and player faces.

Review Fix: How much time and effort went into fine tuning the animations for the game?

Adams: Thousands of man of hours go in to making sure everything moves in a believable way. It all starts with motion capture, then the rigging of digital skeletons. We then apply the animation to the rigs and clean up any anomalies that may appear. From eye blinks to fingers and hands, all joints rotations have to be perfect in order to deliver a realistic representation of the NFL. This takes a lot of effort and talent to get right and I think we nailed it.

Review Fix: What are you most proud of when it comes to the look of the game?

Adams: I’m most proud of the in game lighting, from the warm magic hour to the icy cold snow games. It’s all very dramatic yet realistic to the NFL.

Review Fix: What was the development process like?

Adams: The development process required that we work with hundreds of talented people both here and in other parts of the world. It was definitely an epic joint effort by many artists, developers and designers.

Review Fix: What did you learn from this game and how will it impact the game moving forward?

Adams: We learned a lot about the new hardware and will be elevating the realism of the game based on these findings. We have some really exciting features on the horizon.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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