NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3/360)

[countryboy]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

i dont own live but played the demo tons. i owned 2k10 but returned it for defense. so the controls are tough for me.

For everyone wondering Player Name indicator is there!

Ok only played one game but here are some impressions:

Presentation is amazing! Gus and Raftery talk a lot, and there's no akward silences like in those videos (atleast I didn't notice them) The stat overlays go by pretty quickly though (patch?), but its not a big deal. This crowd is insane! Best job a dev team has ever done with the crowd. Duke went on a 7-0 run on me, and the camera shook, and it was loudly as hell. And to top it off, Gus was screaming, this is College Basketball!

Gameplay is very good. Dribble moves are the best they've ever been, and the motion offense is very easy to run and well done. The passing controls are hard to get used to, but once performed well they look great. The half-court game is great, but the full-court game has me a little concerned. Will test it out more though. Also for the people that own NBA 2K10, you'll notice the amazing help D and rotations. Its very lovely when your CPU teammates can defend on their own. I am also a big fan of the coaching tips. They let me know when I didn't put the ball in the post enough.

Anyways, gameplay wise this game is very good. Now if only we get some dynasty issues fixed like recruiting and the sim engine and I'll be in heaven.

In regards to bolded part...is it there for the cpu controlled players as well?

Thanks for the impressions, looking forward to hearing more.

[warnerwlf98]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

I'd most definitely be interested. Thanks in advance should you choose to post a vid.

Sure thing. Give me a couple of hours to get my recording equipment configured. I'll try to capture as much as I can - from intro screens to menus and gameplay (even if I suck and don't know what I'm doing).

[countryboy]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Sure thing. Give me a couple of hours to get my recording equipment configured. I'll try to capture as much as I can - from intro screens to menus and gameplay (even if I suck and don't know what I'm doing).

Thanks man. I certainly appreciate any vid I can get...despite the quality. LOL

[jb12780]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Downloading now....Bill Raftery's voice is legendary...."With the kiss!!" lol

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Downloading now. I'll post a vid if anyone is interested.

A vid of you downloading it? Exciting!

[ehh]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

I'm confused... Were they in or not?

Sorry, they WERE in the NCAA '10 videos we've seen and pre-patch Live. Live's patch corrected it, so if it's still in NCAA at least we know it'll be fixed eventually.

[warnerwlf98]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

A vid of you downloading it? Exciting!

Hey . . . of course it will be exciting, I'll be doing some singing and dancing numbers while it's doing it's thing - I can guarantee it will be entertaining, but I can't guarantee if you'll like it

[NDIrish98]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

haha, if you've played Live wait til you shoot free throws. impressions?? w/ the CBS and ESPN integration+Live's gameplay, it might just surpass Live/2K for basketball game of the year. the presentation w/ the overlays is top notch, even for the demo. if you like Live, you'll like this, even better once you put some names on here haha. just play it, nails the feel of college basketball like none other man, and i'm not even a big college bball fan anyways.

[ehh]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

i dont own live but played the demo tons. i owned 2k10 but returned it for defense. so the controls are tough for me.

For everyone wondering Player Name indicator is there!

Ok only played one game but here are some impressions:

Presentation is amazing! Gus and Raftery talk a lot, and there's no akward silences like in those videos (atleast I didn't notice them) The stat overlays go by pretty quickly though (patch?), but its not a big deal. This crowd is insane! Best job a dev team has ever done with the crowd. Duke went on a 7-0 run on me, and the camera shook, and it was loudly as hell. And to top it off, Gus was screaming, this is College Basketball!

Gameplay is very good. Dribble moves are the best they've ever been, and the motion offense is very easy to run and well done. The passing controls are hard to get used to, but once performed well they look great. The half-court game is great, but the full-court game has me a little concerned. Will test it out more though. Also for the people that own NBA 2K10, you'll notice the amazing help D and rotations. Its very lovely when your CPU teammates can defend on their own. I am also a big fan of the coaching tips. They let me know when I didn't put the ball in the post enough.

Anyways, gameplay wise this game is very good. Now if only we get some dynasty issues fixed like recruiting and the sim engine and I'll be in heaven.

Good stuff. The controls are awesome once you get used to 'em, after playing Live so much the last month it's been very tough trying to go back to CH2K8. You really have to be wary of passing angles in EA's games, they have to be realistic and open or you'll see a lot of interceptions - which is a good thing.

The full court game might suck pre-patch, it was bad in Live before the patch. Teams didn't push the ball all that much and there were few fastbreaks. After the Live patch the CPU is much more aggressive when trying to push the ball and look for open shots/lanes.

Can you see if off-ball control from Live is in? Press the L-trigger, then a player's icon (hold it) and then release the L-trigger. That should allow you to take control of the off-ball guy.

[poster]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

i dont own live but played the demo tons. i owned 2k10 but returned it for defense. so the controls are tough for me.

For everyone wondering Player Name indicator is there!

Ok only played one game but here are some impressions:

Presentation is amazing! Gus and Raftery talk a lot, and there's no akward silences like in those videos (atleast I didn't notice them) The stat overlays go by pretty quickly though (patch?), but its not a big deal. This crowd is insane! Best job a dev team has ever done with the crowd. Duke went on a 7-0 run on me, and the camera shook, and it was loudly as hell. And to top it off, Gus was screaming, this is College Basketball!

Gameplay is very good. Dribble moves are the best they've ever been, and the motion offense is very easy to run and well done. The passing controls are hard to get used to, but once performed well they look great. The half-court game is great, but the full-court game has me a little concerned. Will test it out more though. Also for the people that own NBA 2K10, you'll notice the amazing help D and rotations. Its very lovely when your CPU teammates can defend on their own. I am also a big fan of the coaching tips. They let me know when I didn't put the ball in the post enough.

Anyways, gameplay wise this game is very good. Now if only we get some dynasty issues fixed like recruiting and the sim engine and I'll be in heaven.

How quick are the overlays? So fast that you can't even finish reading them? Can you perhaps give an example?

[countryboy]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

A vid of you downloading it? Exciting!

[countryboy]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Hey . . . of course it will be exciting, I'll be doing some singing and dancing numbers while it's doing it's thing - I can guarantee it will be entertaining, but I can't guarantee if you'll like it

[RayAllen20]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Good stuff. The controls are awesome once you get used to 'em, after playing Live so much the last month it's been very tough trying to go back to CH2K8. You really have to be wary of passing angles in EA's games, they have to be realistic and open or you'll see a lot of interceptions - which is a good thing.

The full court game might suck pre-patch, it was bad in Live before the patch. Teams didn't push the ball all that much and there were few fastbreaks. After the Live patch the CPU is much more aggressive when trying to push the ball and look for open shots/lanes.

Can you see if off-ball control from Live is in? Press the L-trigger, then a player's icon (hold it) and then release the L-trigger. That should allow you to take control of the off-ball guy.

Yep its in. On a fast break I pressed the icon and then made him run him stop at the 3 point line, got passed the ball, and nailed the 3. It was awesome. On 2nd thought, the fastbreak game seems to be a lot better than Live. The CPU even had a fastbreak, and I think that's because they are up-tempo.

[ezio]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

haha, if you've played Live wait til you shoot free throws. impressions?? w/ the CBS and ESPN integration+Live's gameplay, it might just surpass Live/2K for basketball game of the year. the presentation w/ the overlays is top notch, even for the demo. if you like Live, you'll like this, even better once you put some names on here haha. just play it, nails the feel of college basketball like none other man, and i'm not even a big college bball fan anyways.

Good to hear. Seeing that I am a bigger college fan and am enjoying Live it may go by the wayside if I get this

thanks for the impressions.

[ehh]

Re: NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (360)

Glad to hear the CPU fastbreaks seem good from the start. It doesn't surprise me since NCAA 09 did the tempo feature correctly and it seemed like Live 10 didn't port it properly. So NCAA 10 just had to leave it the same from NCAA 09 and it'll work.

Very nice that OBC is in there too, I use it a ton in Live.

Have you noticed any difference between individual players? Does Singler seem to be better than any other Dookie for the most part?