NCAA Football 10 Impressions (Pasta Padre)

[Dame]

Pasta Padre has posted his impressions of NCAA Football 10.

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"Game planning is another addition that provides the user with a way to influence how the team plays. What I most like about this is since you can only control one guy at a time the CPU has in general just played a standard way in the past. Now you can set it to conservative, balanced, or aggressive for offense and defense. Set to aggressive and your players will go for strips and try to break tackles. Basically they look for the big play in all situations. Set to conservative and the players will try to avoid the big mistake and play it safe. This will affect both the CPU controlled players and the player being user controlled. I saw the effects of this immediately in my first game when I set both to aggressive. This is likely how most people will begin until they realize the downsides. On the first two possessions I was called for three face masks. In another game I said the hell with it I was going aggressive again. On one of the kick returns my guy practically refused to go down which ended up resulting in a fumble. I would recommend aggressive for situational use as opposed to playing that way for a full game. Conservative fits my play style better anyway so I shifted back to that for the most part. Balanced would provide a similar style to how the CPU has generally played in the past."

[beau21]

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There are no team entrances or new style of replays or cut scenes that I came across.

[Jistic]

About what I expected. Improved, but nothing mind blowing.

I have to pick it up to use my team builder team however.

I think it is getting time though for NCAA to start thinking about a huge leap forward like Madden is.

I think NCAA is coasting this year, but it does look better than last year.

[Happyvally74]

Good write up. Would have liked to hear some news on the OL/DL interaction.

[kindella2]

good review...i think the bands and team entraces would be something that would eventually get skipped so there is no big loss for me. Just like the fixes...liked 09 just fine.

[greenegt]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jistic

I think it is getting time though for NCAA to start thinking about a huge leap forward like Madden is. I think NCAA is coasting this year, but it does look better than last year.

I agree. TeamBuilder was a biggie and now that it has been implemented, I hope the devs focus on a Madden 10-level gameplay leap for next year.

In the meantime, I can accept NCAA 10 for what it is. As long as nothing game-killing pops up, I'll have fun with it.

[Watson]

Quote: Originally Posted by greenegt

I agree. TeamBuilder was a biggie and now that it has been implemented, I hope the devs focus on a Madden 10-level gameplay leap for next year. In the meantime, I can accept NCAA 10 for what it is. As long as nothing game-killing pops up, I'll have fun with it.

same here. Ill take NCAA and i will enjoy it.

[MSchneider84]

You guys do realize that all of the whining you did about CAS took A LOT of dev. time away from the actually game. I won't even use Team Builder, so it doesn't sound like there is much of a difference between 09 and 10.