NCAA Football 10 Demo Now Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[RoyalBoyle78]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

A little birdie told me that we should be playing it that Friday.

LOL...

[Heisman316]

I know that I'm one of the few, but I love the demo.

The tackle animations are 10x better, I also like the new breaking out of the sack animations.

This game plays better, IMO. Granted we once again have slider problems, but the rosters have been fixed along with the speed reduction and better animations put in, I'm am definately impressed based off of all the criticizm.

[Mjphillips]

Is anybody seeing big hits or hits at all besides the QB sack? The vids I've seen have nothing but hip throws and take downs. I want to see some leather pop that makes you say, "Ooooooooh!" What happened?

[timmg]

Has anyone played the demo against another human player, i played my son and ended up with 6 sacks, you get plenty of pressure against a human player. when playing the cpu i dont get any.

[magic247]

Main issues (if you don't want to read the whole thing):
*The cpu defense doesn't flip their plays to align with the offense's strong side...* On a positive note, cpu punting is a factor now, which affects field position (Yes!)

How do I make sure my voice is heard on this one?

In the demo there have been several sim improvements and things that could be worked on. What have you seen?

Good (cpu)- AI wr/db's, AI rb's vision, cpu defensive pre-play player movement, punting (huge plus so far), run blocking, qb decision-making...And I'm sure there are more.

Room for improvement (cpu)- *Disclaimer*- NCAA has always been a great game for me as a sim/coach v. cpu dynasty player. Last year though, I could only play it on ps2 b/c the next-gen version is still developing into what the already established version is. I still wouldve played a dynasty last year, but for one glitch that I haven't heard discussed yet...

*The cpu defense doesn't flip their plays to align with the offense's strong side...*

This means that the left side of the field is always off-balanced when the human player flips their play to the left.

I'm not one for presentation or uniforms really, just semi-realistic gameplay/stats. There's something about trying to achieve videogame sports feats that I love, along with playing the occasional sim game against a sim opponent who appreciates the sport.

The old versions do flip, along with adjust their linemen/linbackers...I just want the cpu to flip their defense to the opposite side when I have my offense stacked to that side.

How do I make sure my voice is heard on this one? Thanks.

[blackscorpion11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mjphillips

Is anybody seeing big hits or hits at all besides the QB sack? The vids I've seen have nothing but hip throws and take downs. I want to see some leather pop that makes you say, "Ooooooooh!" What happened?

Good point!

Other than Receivers getting hit in mid air.. not too many big hitz.

[blackscorpion11]

Quote: Originally Posted by jdrhammer

From my experiences some of them float way to far out and hang in the air way too long. I haven't seen enough passes that would normally be line drives take an angle for the ground. It seems they all float and hang around forever.

Yes,, I've seen the floating passes after being hit.. I HATE THESE passes, especially when they are caught by the WR, just seems cheap, You knock the crap out of the qb and he still completes the pass?? It can happen, but not very often in real life..Whats EA got against a plain old fashioned incomplete pass?? Behind the rec, at the rec's feet, over the rec's head????

just a errant pass, why all the picks, tip drills, etc?? why doesnt the qb AI throw the ball away more often instead of forcing passes??


with that said.

I am buying this game on day one because with all the madden lover's and their "Madden is way better" talk, this game is a big improvement on 09. Many of the issues from 09 have been fixed, some still remain, but with new features , animations and bringing back create-a-school..this should be a winner..

the roster issues and others are nothing more than the DEV team not taking enough time to properly overhaul and test this game.. they should either hire more people to the dev team or take an extra 6 months to develop and create..

this releasing a game every 10 months thing is just a money grab.

[blackscorpion11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Strummer101er

Good question. I doubt it. Being able to see all your receivers is nice; having a good view of the action is nicer.

I agree!

How many picks did we throw last year by throwing to that "Blind side" of the field that you couldn't see??

Nice upgrade