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Originally Posted by Zerstorer |
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I love NCAA football... but that doesn't color my observations about this year's game. And while it has some improvements, it also has some serious problems - including some aspects (such as audio gliches, video slow down, wrong animation used etc) which worked fine in 2004, but not in 2005.
HFA and Composure are great IDEAS, but NOT correctly implimented IMHO. HFA effect is too extreme and should primarly concentrate on causing additional penalties & negating some audibles. And while Composure is certainly "in the game", it was already being used... a player's composure (or lack of it) is already factored into the individual stats! It's basically "double counting" the effect of composure on a players abilities. I actually rather like both HFA & Composure, but they really need to be toned down substantially.
Gameplay... good grief, let's not kid ourselves, the game is a bust on the default settings - didn't EA Sports play test this? A game should work reasonably well "out of the box" instead of requiring three weeks of slider adjustments. But then again, NCAA 2005 is not a simulation, it is a game.
Finally, I should state that I do like (and like tremendously) playing this game, but Madden is a much more professionally produced game and it plays so much better. It just makes me hope NCAA 2006 will be the really great game that NCAA 2005 could have been.
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Well first off I disagree about composure already being in the game. Before this year, a QB could throw 2 int's and would suffer no ill effects. Same with a DB, you could pick on him on 3 straight drives, yet he would show no signs of declining confidence either. So I am glad that they did something to reflect that. Now, with that being said, the system is not perfect. It is overdone at times, but with this being the first year, I did not expect a smooth transition. Now it its not better next year, then I will be upset.
Your points on gameplay will get no argument from me. I will just say that I moved past it although I never did experience the big slowdown problem(except on Live) or the horrible CPU passing numbers. They would be below 50% from time to time but never horrible numbers. But I have taken it for what it is this year.