NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[Exonerated]

The catches this year are really good (judging from the demo).

Usercatching is a treat. And tip intercepts are really cool, they actually react to the tip ball.

And the sideline catch animation triggers nearly every time which is a relief. It was pretty frustrating prior years passing to the sideline because the receiver rarely did the falling, two feet in animation and just caught it outside the field.

[Mjphillips]

Quote: Originally Posted by Exonerated

The catches this year are really good (judging from the demo). Usercatching is a treat. And tip intercepts are really cool, they actually react to the tip ball. And the sideline catch animation triggers nearly every time which is a relief. It was pretty frustrating prior years passing to the sideline because the receiver rarely did the falling, two feet in animation and just caught it outside the field.

Yep. I love the user catching on off and def. I feel like I have PS2 control over my players. The past years i felt like I had no control over user catching. You didn't have to have true stick skills IMO on the previous games but now it seems they are giving the control back to the users for Next gen.

[StormJH1]

Yeah, the two things that really jump out at you are the catch animations and the slimmed down (better looking player models). Both of those are huge additions. I agree with thread that talked about the ball being too big, though, and it's tough to say that they fixed a lot "under the hood" when we're playing a build from April that's still a little clunky.

It's also a tough call because much of the stuff that prevented me from playing for any length of time last year isn't in the demo...such as the ridiculous phone call procedure for recruiting and the piss poor menu structure. For a game where you spend so much of your time managing your team, those are BIG problems, especially if you want people to do the same activities in online leagues!

[babyfat9]

Another thing that sucks is that we don't have the option of returning Punts and Kickoffs left or right.