NCAA Football 09 Update: GameSpot

[Village Idiot]

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Best vids I've seen so far. Tackle animations look great.

[Scott]

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Good looking video...finally getting excited about some NCAA Football.

[davin]

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Gameplay looked a lot slower, which is good, and it looked like the pocket formed pretty well.

[countryboy]

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anyone else bummed that the crowd still wasn't all that "lively"? I am wondering if they had the slider setting for crowd turned down, or what is up, but the crowd just doesn't seem into the game.

[rudyjuly2]

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I'm not one of the guys super pumped up about the online dynasty stuff since I'm usually an offline only guy. But I was amazed to hear that you can take you offline dynasty online and merge it in with somebody at any time. Or if you are tired of your online dynasty, you can break it out and just turn it into an offline dynasty. I can't believe the flexibility the online dynasty has in its first year. It sounds almost too good to be true.

[Coach Bryant]

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anyone else bummed that the crowd still wasn't all that "lively"? I am wondering if they had the slider setting for crowd turned down, or what is up, but the crowd just doesn't seem into the game.

I am. EA SEC football games are loud! I'm still buying the game. I can't wait to play it on my PS3, and 60 inch tv!

[countryboy]

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I am. EA SEC football games are loud! I'm still buying the game. I can't wait to play it on my PS3, and 60 inch tv!

Trust me, I am buying the game too. Its just that in all the videos thus far, the crowd has been non-existent so to speak.

Please let it be that the players turned down the crowd slider or something along those lines. I don't wanna play football in front of a golf crowd.

[DickDalewood]

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Look great, I'm definitely pumped.

However... our first Wii vids and they show us a Mascot game??? What is the fascination with that mode??

I'll never get it...

[Von Dozier]

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Look great, I'm definitely pumped.

However... our first Wii vids and they show us a Mascot game??? What is the fascination with that mode??

I'll never get it...

Wii is the C game, on a children's console. There's a reason there isn't any hype or care for it

[DickDalewood]

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Wii is the C game, on a children's console. There's a reason there isn't any hype or care for it

Haha, good point... and that's not the version I'd be getting anyway... but ugh... I just don't get the whole Mascot game thing.

[Wjkporter]

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I just don't get the whole Mascot game thing......

SO true!!!!... Who Cares!!! if you can play mascot game. I don't!

[DONF]

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I sure hope they keep the slower gameplay. The fast gameplay makes the game seem choppy and arcadish.

[Rivals]

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Loved the slower gameplay. The offenses, from the inside-out, were more methodical in their movement, which is more realistic. And I'm actually pleased that EA is calming the crowd noise down to a certain degree. To really accentuate home field advantage, you need contrast. Intense situations aren't as intense when the crowd is jumping around and screaming the whole game. Real football games have lulls, and those lulls make 4th and goal at the 2-yard line even more intense.

Think of it this way... would Master of Puppets be as heavy without the acoustic interlude?

[thejake]

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Whats up with the playclock? It starts at 40 seconds and then at some point jumps down to 24 seconds.

[Solidice]

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Whats up with the playclock? It starts at 40 seconds and then at some point jumps down to 24 seconds.

looks like a newer build where they added the 40 second play clock, but the old code overrode it when they got to the play selection screen.