NCAA Football 11 Hands-On Preview (IGN)

[lgxjames]

I don't think I've seen a bad preview of a game yet

[TomServo09]

Has IGN ever given an EA Sports title a bad review?

[Jkgrindz]

Sounds good but is anyone else tired of hearing " the developers at Tiburon are well on their way"? It seems like we hear that every year. "They're headed in the right direction". EA's been headed in the right direction for so long but when are we gonna get there? lol. It's like we're all on this long road trip with EA and we keep asking are we there yet? Only for them to tell us no but "we're headed in the right direction". Then you're like well dang how long is this trip? Lol.

[GigemAGGIES13]

Encouraging write-up, but I'll still wait for the real gameplay videos. Can't say I'm not excited though.

[mrMagic91]

Absolutely. I want to see a video of gameplay. And im guessing that there is no college gameday. Its all good

[Lava]

Quote: Originally Posted by eritraj

"Not once in my handful of quarters played in NCAA Football 11 did I land a hit stick tackle -- and I liked it quite a bit." Sweet...Hit stick is now obsolete...

That's not what he said, you just took his words out of context. He just said it's much more difficult to pull off now which is undoubtedly a good thing.

It was far too easy to spam the hitstick last year. Whenever you used it, you became a giant magnet for the ball carrier. It was ridiculous, there was no risk/reward, it was all reward.

[boritter]

The reviewer sounded enthusiastic about NCAA11. But I do not trust IGN when it comes to sports. All IGN sports previews are the same.

The new onside kick camera sounds intriguing. This was the highlight for me:

"I saw the artificial intelligence (AI) had a much greater awareness of holes in the offensive line."

If the OL/DL AI and interactions are improved that will be great news.

[pietasterp]

I call B.S.

Not based on having any experience with NCAA'11 (nobody does at this point), but based on the fact that IGN is generally full of it, and I trust their evaluation of sports games about as much as I trust the National Enquirer's evaluation of Elvis' current whereabouts. Need we go back and dig up previews of NCAA'10, '09, '08, etc.? They ALWAYS sound like this, and it's the exact same game every year.

The EA hype machine is down to a science at this point. IGN, Gamepro, Bill Simmons, etc. are basically just an extension of that.