NCAA Basketball 09 Impressions

[GSW]

Re: Official NCAA Basketball Impressions thread

some of the ommissions seem fairly puzzling.

[cdj]

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Can anyone tell me if the neutral sites in the NCAA Tournament are generic or authentic. I remeber way back in the MM days the courts would just have a different coored paint area and everything else would be the same.

I saw Taco Bell Arena (Boise State) as one of the venues in the tourney, so you play at actual sites. Unfortunately, Taco Bell Arena was a different locale than I played in the first round.

Autosubs is a nice addition that i have wanted in the previous versions (March Madness) for years. How hard is it to find out how many fouls a player has? One thing that made the game hard last year was not only did you have to handle all substitutions, but you would have to pause the game, open the stats, scroll over a ways to find out how many fouls your players had on them. Additionally, if you had named your players and you went to substitute, it would have the player name, but from the quick sub screen it would not have their position. For a quick pickup and play game that was tough because you might not know if Joe Jones was a guard or a forward.

I hope little things were fixed like that. As someone who actually enjoyed the last few versions it is good to here things like autosubs were added. I like to control subs in dynasty mode but if you pick up and play sometimes you want that handled for you. Keep the info coming - thanks!

Seeing the # of fouls has been improved. You can see it on sub screen.

Boo.

Anyone find out if you can edit the classic teams? That could be a pretty big disappointment if they didn't add that this year.

Maybe I overlooked it, but did not see where to do that.

Do you have the ability of playing in preseason tourneys when you edit your schedule in dynasty?

In simulating a Dynasty, I saw my school was offered to play in the pre-season NIT. I am not sure if you can pick and choose pre-season tourneys.

Ok a question that is being asked in a different thread: Does shot release timing affect anything or is it totally based of of ratings?

Combination. Ratings mainly (I think), but aided if you release the button at height of your jump. If you don't let go, you will still shoot, but it will be a bad shot.

When playing against the CPU, can you see names (or #) under the CPU player when they have the ball? Probably not since it wasn't in the demo. This was kind of annoying last year in MM 08, I never knew who was scoring for the CPU unless i really paid attention to the number on the jersey...that is if i could even see it at all.

I am already disappointed how they haven't addressed the issue of not letting the user know what the call was after the whistle blows.....i have to pause the game go to stats and check to see if my guy just committed an offensive foul or not .

Can't see player name under CPU player, very few (if any) stats pop up for CPU players. Still too tough to see what CPU players may be tearing you up.

5 pages and no gameplay impressions?

Very fun game, blows MM08 out of the water.

Playing a 2-3 zone this morning, the CPU went baseline on me unopposed 2 or 3 times, so I changed quickly. I don't know if that was a fluke or if there is poor baseline defense by CPU defenders. I plan on playing more tonight and looking at this.

Countryboy.. Are the rosters really bad for every team?

The very few teams I looked at were relatively good. Nebraska's roster is much better than last year, Creighton's is good, Memphis was OK. UMass had some players no longer on roster.

[The Kid 24]

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cdj... how does michigan state roster look? Could you please check them for me? Thanks so much

[Scoop 24]

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[countryboy]

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Countryboy.. Are the rosters really bad for every team?

I haven't checked. The players are right, its not that, its the faces. They are so off that its ridiculous. And the limited amount of editing tools you have makes it so freaking frustrating.

Also, I don't see where using the name database makes any difference when playing the game. I have yet to have Nessler or Vitale call a guy by name.

[Scoop 24]

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as for the player editors its gonna be tough cause there are 10 complexions you can choose from and each complexion has its own pre determine sets hairstyles and facial hair somewhere between 2 and 3 sets.

[K_rob11]

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Can't see player name under CPU player, very few (if any) stats pop up for CPU players. Still too tough to see what CPU players may be tearing you up.

....thanks for responding. That sucks....its definitely not a game-killer, but its a small, simple thing i wish was there.

Still waiting for a few more dynasty impressions before making my final decision.

[Scoop 24]

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I haven't checked. The players are right, its not that, its the faces. They are so off that its ridiculous. And the limited amount of editing tools you have makes it so freaking frustrating.

Also, I don't see where using the name database makes any difference when playing the game. I have yet to have Nessler or Vitale call a guy by name.

Seems like only the PA guy says the names

[VTPack919]

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This game is def not perfect. But it really is a ton of fun. Just took the Campbell Fightin Camels into OT against Jacksonville and won on a last second 3. The Carter was rockin.

[Skyboxer]

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Is there an auto name feature so I can do that while waiting for a OS edited roster?

[countryboy]

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This game is def not perfect. But it really is a ton of fun. Just took the Campbell Fightin Camels into OT against Jacksonville and won on a last second 3. The Carter was rockin.

Agreed.

There is quite a bit that they need to work on and tweak for next year, but the game is fun and the game is solid. They really need to focus on more little things in my opinion and they need to provide more options to the user when editing.

[countryboy]

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the one thing that I enjoy is that I can play 20 minute halves and have realistic scores and such.

[Scoop 24]

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Is there an auto name feature so I can do that while waiting for a OS edited roster?

im not sure didnt see it but it did take me like 10 minutes to do Georgetown Roster so i doubt the OS project will take that long to complete

[countryboy]

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E5 with the help defense

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[countryboy]

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Sky, there is an autoname feature.