NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[1GATORFAN4EVA]

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I love the demo and can't wait for 7/13.

One minor complaint is switching players in pass defense when the ball is in the air. It doesn't seem to switch me to the player that is closest to make a play on the ball.

For example, ill be playing cover 2 in nickel controlling the mlb...Cpu throws a fly, instead of switching me to the CB running step for step i mite get switched to the safety playing over the top... I dunno, i just often find myself saying why did i get switched to that guy.

Finnally someone has the same problem as me. I've been playing NCAA games for ever but your right this games seem a little off when it comes to switching.... I hate when it's a deep pass an you have like 2 seconds to switch to a defender so you click it thinking you're gonna be one defender an you run off in the other direction missing the play.

[AirLobo23]

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Finnally someone has the same problem as me. I've been playing NCAA games for ever but your right this games seem a little off when it comes to switching.... I hate when it's a deep pass an you have like 2 seconds to switch to a defender so you click it thinking you're gonna be one defender an you run off in the other direction missing the play.

Yea, it can be frustrating... especially when u think ur gonna be switched to a player u can make a play with only to be switched to someone that can't do anything.

[aliefallstar]

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1 HUGE positive and 1 POTENTIAL negative.....

I played UT vs OU on the demo just now and one thing that I LOVE is that a power back is no longer useless. I put Cody Johnson (FB #31) at starting RB just to try it out, and it was a thing of beauty. In past years this player would be completely ineffective but I was somewhat successful with him even running against OU. he didnt break any long runs but was effectively getting 4-5 yards gains, and would fall forward on tackles vs smaller defenders. (This is a HUGE upgrade IMO)

My potential negative is with teams that run a no huddle. Obviously OU did this against me and they had a 12 play drive. During the course of this drive (all no huddle), they had to sub in 3 CBs at WR. I like the CPU running no huddle but I don't want them to do it at the expense of having their WRs taken out of the game. This could lead to out of whack stats with 2-3 CBs catching passes every game, also it is unrealistic.

Overall i love the game and cant wait to start my OD!!

[Bellsprout]

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Played this for like an hour today and the thing I was most impressed with was this:

Every single time the situation called for it, the receiver made sure he got a foot in (Most of the time it was the stop at the sideline and lean over it while keeping feet in animation). Without fail. Every time. It was magical.

I don't know if that's been said in the billiondy or so pages of this thread, but it's what stuck out most to me. I was just floored.

[LionsFanNJ]

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I had to stop playing the Demo. Not because of anyting going on with it, because i want to play with Rutgers....and i can't. Plus i don't want to get burnt out. I'l probably come back to it a day or two before release to get a feel of the differences with the Demo and retail.

[BA2929]

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My potential negative is with teams that run a no huddle. Obviously OU did this against me and they had a 12 play drive. During the course of this drive (all no huddle), they had to sub in 3 CBs at WR. I like the CPU running no huddle but I don't want them to do it at the expense of having their WRs taken out of the game. This could lead to out of whack stats with 2-3 CBs catching passes every game, also it is unrealistic.

Overall i love the game and cant wait to start my OD!!

Here is why I think this might just be a demo problem: The demo has smaller depth charts than in the retail game and it seemed like fatigue was ramped up (due to the 2 min quarters) because after 2 or so plays my HB would be in the yellow. I doubt I'd even notice this over the course of the game, but it would be odd to see a CB break away for a long TD catch every once in awhile.

[noles1983]

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sidelines animations still suck, returning an interception for a td and the other teams players are clapping their hands..that annoys me

[skeezapleez]

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Played the demo for the first time last night. I'm not sure how I feel about the play calling being the same setup as Madden, as I wasn't a big fan of how Madden's worked. Seems like a pain trying to put in different packages.

Also, I played Oklahoma vs Texas, and for some reason my QB was returning kickoffs and my punter was in as a special teams coverage guy. I checked the depth charts and everything looked fine. I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this and hopefully it's just a demo glitch.

[mm boost]

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I saw something SWEET when playing the other night. My room mate from college come in last week and was playing the demo while I was watching, and he was playing with Florida against the Noles. CPU was playing VERY aggressive, because my friend would score fast, but instead of the CPU just running the ball 3 times and then punting, they were scrambling with Ponder, passing all over the place, etc. VERY aggressive play calling, and they'd drive right down the field on him each time (on AA). Anyways, Ponder through this pass to his WR on a drag across the middle coming from the left going to the right. The guy caught it in stride, and then started to cut up field. My friend brought his safety up and kinda paused/hesitated infront of the defender (since he was the last line of defense) instead of going for the big hit, and the wide receiver did something I've never seen in any football game before. The wide receiver stopped, and did the head juke thing left to right, to try and fake his safety out, and then shuffled his feet to the side, juked past the safety and took it to the house. We both stopped and was like DAMN that was sick! Looked so real. I am impressed with what I am seeing from EA this year, I can't wait to delve deep into it!

[MaizeHaze]

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Why do we always get a replay of the extra point?

[pjmoore 28]

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the same reason that the play of the game is the last play done in the game. EA wants us to hate them and then love them when the retail comes out.

[MaizeHaze]

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the same reason that the play of the game is the last play done in the game. EA wants us to hate them and then love them when the retail comes out.

Only on the xbox. It's usually a replay of the score so I hope this won't be the case when the game hits the shelf!

[lilLee]

BEST DEMO EVER IMO

[Segagendude]

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I'm absolutely loving player lock!!!!!!!!!

[PVarck31]

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Why do we always get a replay of the extra point?

This is fixed in the retail version.