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

[a walrus]

ok ....just to re--cap. after reading a couple pages.

btw i do not have the demo.however i do have a few ?'s

is the audio as poor as its been made out to be.

dose the 2-3 zone prevent the computer from playing smart basketball.

everyone has the same skill set , dribble moves , hesitations , no speed differential. etc

you can not substitue across all positions during dead balls.

dose the ai offense really feel that scripted.?

no player names for the cpu...really!

are their a range of jumpshot animations between the 2 teams.

I did not give this game much of a chance last season. After a couple of hours I went back to the champ. I am not trying to create a firestorm , nor do i want to read through 13 pages.I just want to know are these issues still previlant in the demo.

[Court_vision]

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

How's the rebounding fellas?

Does the CPU try and go back up all the time from offensive rebounds? Meaning every trip down the court is effectively "one and done". (Like in LIVE 10...gamekiller for me)

Or do they re-set some of the time and actually use some strategy? Kick it out when when they need a 3 ball etc?

Can you box out at all in this game? (LIVE 10 is terrible for this)

[Court_vision]

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

Yeah, after playing a bunch of games I have to echo everyone's complaint about how every player seems like they have the same exact attributes. I shouldn't be able to cross people up and drive to the hole with Brian Zoubek.

Dammm...that doesn't sound good.

NBA Live is very generic this season...bigs are all pretty much the same and play the same...i was really hoping the NCAA game would be a bit more player specific. How bad is it?

[Bootzilla]

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

Dammm...that doesn't sound good.

NBA Live is very generic this season...bigs are all pretty much the same and play the same...i was really hoping the NCAA game would be a bit more player specific. How bad is it?

If you think Live is generic (which I don't by the way) NCAA is super generic. Certainly not player specific. Without signature styles, the only thing that can make this game feel not generic is if they nail the team styles. Not much differentiation or individualism based off of the demo.

Based off of the demo this game is the white box with CORN FLAKES in black letters generic.

[Flightwhite24]

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

If you think Live is generic (which I don't by the way) NCAA is super generic. Certainly not player specific. Without signature styles, the only thing that can make this game feel not generic is if they nail the team styles. Not much differentiation or individualism based off of the demo.

Based off of the demo this game is the white box with CORN FLAKES in black letters generic.

The above reason is what it exactly what is keeping me away. Hope those who do buy enjoy it. I'll stick to the other game this year. Peace!!!!

[ODogg]

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

What other game? Is 2K making a college game again??

[countryboy]

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

What other game? Is 2K making a college game again??

I believe James is referring to NBA 2K10.

[ODogg]

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

Oh ok, well apples and oranges that is...

[ehh]

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

The more stuff I see and read I don't think I'm going make this game a Day One purchase, I can't justify it.

The generic individualism is what killed the game for me last year and if they didn't really improve that then I don't see the point in getting this game - it will be inferior to Live no matter the other game play improvements they made. Playing my one year in dynasty mode with UConn this became so apparent. Georgetown, Pitt and Cuse were the same. Villanova, Notre Dame and Louisville were the same. If I team was wearing plain white uniforms I would have no clue who I was playing (outside of maybe Cuse with their 2-3 zone). All that mattered in NCAA 09 was tempo, it didn't matter if you had a 90 overall PF or a 75 ovr, it played the same on offense.

Plus pre-patch out of the box there is no way the game will be better than Live so what's the point of having the game sit on my shelf for six weeks waiting for a patch after spending $60 on it?

I buy two bball games each year and to me it makes way more sense to pick up 2K10 (still gotta test PS3 post-patch) because it compliments Live so well. Maybe I'll pick this up in Feb/March on eBay for cheap or maybe I'll get it for Christmas, we'll see.

[ProStylez]

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

The more stuff I see and read I don't think I'm going make this game a Day One purchase, I can't justify it.

The generic individualism is what killed the game for me last year and if they didn't really improve that then I don't see the point in getting this game - it will be inferior to Live no matter the other game play improvements they made. Playing my one year in dynasty mode with UConn this became so apparent. Georgetown, Pitt and Cuse were the same. Villanova, Notre Dame and Louisville were the same. If I team was wearing plain white uniforms I would have no clue who I was playing (outside of maybe Cuse with their 2-3 zone). All that mattered in NCAA 09 was tempo, it didn't matter if you had a 90 overall PF or a 75 ovr, it played the same on offense.

Plus pre-patch out of the box there is no way the game will be better than Live so what's the point of having the game sit on my shelf for six weeks waiting for a patch after spending $60 on it?

I buy two bball games each year and to me it makes way more sense to pick up 2K10 (still gotta test PS3 post-patch) because it compliments Live so well. Maybe I'll pick this up in Feb/March on eBay for cheap or maybe I'll get it for Christmas, we'll see.

There is no reason to buy any sports game pre patch anymore with the exception of MLB THE SHOW.
We buy the game, play it, complain here then wait for the patch so what's the point?
I'll save my 60 bucks.

[ehh]

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Very true but I never let that stop me before. I'm doing it in this case because I'm skeptical of the final result, post-patch I'm not sure that NCAA 10 will be better than Live 10. I'm not going to buy this game if that's the case.

[Flightwhite24]

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

I believe James is referring to NBA 2K10.

That is correct. With so much else out and the #1 reason is how these games are starting to come out of the box. NOT FINSHED. This patching after the game is released is BS. Sports games won't fool me any longer. I'll just wait it out. Peace Fellows

[codes]

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

That is correct. With so much else out and the #1 reason is how these games are starting to come out of the box. NOT FINSHED. This patching after the game is released is BS. Sports games won't fool me any longer. I'll just wait it out. Peace Fellows

Patches just allow the developer teams to be just flat out lazy. They release unfinished games, listen to our complaints then "fix what they can." If its an un-patchable problem, oh well. They have our money and we'll just have to wait for next year. It seems like we do all their testing, for free! Actually, we pay them to do the testing.

It seems to be a trend to rush games out the door. Look at NCAA Football 10 for example. It appears they rushed it out the door and didn't pay attention to the progression and had to release a third patch.

Measure twice. Cut once. Please.

[KG]

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

The more stuff I see and read I don't think I'm going make this game a Day One purchase, I can't justify it.

The generic individualism is what killed the game for me last year and if they didn't really improve that then I don't see the point in getting this game - it will be inferior to Live no matter the other game play improvements they made. Playing my one year in dynasty mode with UConn this became so apparent. Georgetown, Pitt and Cuse were the same. Villanova, Notre Dame and Louisville were the same. If I team was wearing plain white uniforms I would have no clue who I was playing (outside of maybe Cuse with their 2-3 zone). All that mattered in NCAA 09 was tempo, it didn't matter if you had a 90 overall PF or a 75 ovr, it played the same on offense.

Plus pre-patch out of the box there is no way the game will be better than Live so what's the point of having the game sit on my shelf for six weeks waiting for a patch after spending $60 on it?

I buy two bball games each year and to me it makes way more sense to pick up 2K10 (still gotta test PS3 post-patch) because it compliments Live so well. Maybe I'll pick this up in Feb/March on eBay for cheap or maybe I'll get it for Christmas, we'll see.

This year might be different though ehh based off those offensive gameplay vids where they showed Gtwon running the Princeton offense. I fully understand them not being able to capture differences in players to a certain extent but if they can emulate team styles than hope isnt all lost. It seems like NCAA hoops is ahead of fball in this regard.

[ehh]

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

This year might be different though ehh based off those offensive gameplay vids where they showed Gtwon running the Princeton offense. I fully understand them not being able to capture differences in players to a certain extent but if they can emulate team styles than hope isnt all lost. It seems like NCAA hoops is ahead of fball in this regard.

Last year they ran offenses very well too (not as team specific) but they didn't make any effort to get it to their scorers more and the high rated players didn't seem to do anything that different from lower rated guys.

If I play NCAA '10 and can't tell the difference between Greg Monroe and GTown's backup big man then I will probably be passing on this game.