NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[b2th3m1th]

I just spent the last two hours playing the demo. So smooth, Loving the offense! Defense isn't bad I just love my custom playbook

[schumach]

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Played Alabama (Me) vs LSULSU DE's were nice. I am not seeing the DT's get all the sacks like madskillz. LSU's LE was eating me up though. Also the most sacks I have had in one game all day were 4. Never seen these 7 a half? LSU also had a nice HB SCREEN that picked up a 3rd and 8 late in the game that eventually allowed them to hit the winning fg. Lost this one 9-7. My only loss. I missed 2 fg's.

LSU (Me) vs Alabama

Alabama had no answer for my running game. Was able to pound the ball. Plus LSU d can put pressure on QB. Loved the DL play. Mathieu got burned on one play from a pump fake, but was able to catch up and make the tackle. I won 24-13.


Baylor (Me) vs K-State
Baylor's HB is a beast. I like LSU's rb a lot until I used this guy. I wish he was on my team cause I won't be running a dynasty with Baylor anytime. There was no defense. Neither team got a sack. Final 28-27. This was the first game I had multiple huge plays of 25+ yards both for me and the cpu. K-State QB was killing me. I bit with a de on the read option and Klein made me pay for a 42 yd gain. I like that the cpu is able to read better on this.


USC (Me) vs Oregon
Matt Barkley is nice, but I did throw 2 picks with him in the end zone.... ouch. Trying to get the corner fade but didn't seem that it worked well for me. This was a good game though. Oregon's option was nice but not overdone. QB made a couple of nice reads but a couple of terrible one's also. Although that could be because he is young. Hit a fg with time expiring to win 24-21.

[blkrptnt819]

Stopped reading when you complained about something be TOO smooth? You mad at EA bro?

I thought it was just me. As soon as I seen too looked I walked away.

[schumach]

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I didn't notice a lot of difference with this game. But a lot of small things that improved it some. I was definitely hoping for more. If 12 played like this with a patch it would have been.... hey nice work. The fact that it is a new game leaves me underwhelmed.

I did like the read react. But sometimes it seemed they just programmed the defender to always look for the ball so that it would appear he was looking at it when he made the play rather than having to look for it before making it.

Seemed much smoother, I like the punt return setup but is still seems that the blocks are not great. Don't think special teams got the adjustments I was hoping for.

Read option seems 200% better than it has ever been. Never ran a triple option or pitch so not sure how that worked out but the sped up read option was nice and you will get burned by a good team if you don't contain.


I also think the crowd reacted more appropriately but still seemed way to quiet for me. Especially in Death Valley?
Like it but not in love with it. It's a must buy for me every year, but still feel like not enough improvement was made. Of course I don't remember a year where the demo played anything like what I got when retail came. Unfortunately retail usually has a patch right away that ruins some gameplay aspect. We will see in a few weeks!

[D.S.T.X.B.]

I've been pretty impressed with everything. The crowed reacting properly and everything looks a little more smooth. Just one thing I'm not liking. Almost every tackle is the same. The dude gets stood up so another guy can come in and finish. It's realistic, but every play? I hope it was just that game.

[afbrother]

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I thought it was just me. As soon as I seen too looked I walked away.

I understood what he was saying. The controls are too easy for the task.....be open minded in your praise and criticism.

[rerdivine]

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For the people complaining about tackles. We will be getting RTP next year so no worrys.

[feeq14]

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Is it me or did they still manage to add momentum to the game. There were a lot of animations for what seemed to be stop and start speed for defenders. Although it is a bit fast on natural play speed so maybe my eyes just werent adjusted

[IamLEGENDsince87]

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Pretty disappointed. Other than it being a little more smooth, it felt like I was playing NCAA 12. No new cleats make the game look old, and the jerseys/player models look the exact SAME. I will probably NEVER play the Heisman Challenge. I did like how the crowd reacted to different plays, and the chants. I also know that the demo is certainly not the finished product but it didnt leave a good impression with me. Ive been buying CFB games since I was 6 years old and will buy this one, but EA has to step it up.

[gogators]

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I'll admit I had fun playing the demo. More than I thought I would. It is smoother and I saw some new animations.
Running the ball seemed better as in running into your your guys and having to move around them.
I love being able to throw passes in anticipation of the WRs breaks. Defensive end pressure WAS NICE!!! The game looked beautiful.

If the sliders work... this could be a great game. Maybe I will buy. I'm still going to hold off until others buy the game and see if it's as polishes as it needs to be, but it looks promising. Still bummed about no Infinity.

[MrOctober430]

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I enjoyed it. Passing game me a hard time and the defensive play is pretty good. Now it's kinda hard to wait for the final product. Defiantly a buy for me.

[AiDub]

I think demo is solid. There where a few mishaps that I noticed. One in particular that bothered me was at the very end of the first half, the CPU had the ball and converted a 3rd down which gave them a 1st and goal on the 5 with :01 left. instead of hustling to the line and taking advantage of the stopped clock to try and chuck one in the endzone, the CPU spiked the ball which ended the half. Kind of weird that they would do that.

Anywho, for me I really wish the demo let you play with some options. I like to play on slow game speed with the player speed threshold all the way to 0 (Don't get me started on how unrealistic an 84 speed LB chasing down a 94 speed receiver is). It just feels better. Although I do like what I see with the passing improvements, I have to say, with all the new features that Madden has this year, I am unfortunately going to skip NCAA at release. I may buy it later on when the price drops though.

[thevaliantx]

Downloaded..

not a major thing, but a minor annoyance I found already is they have week 10 listed as Oct 27....Week 10 is Nov 3, that seems something that should be too easy to miss on

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm amazed when folks can't see the bad gameplay before them, and instead they focus on things like accuracy of schedules. It just amazes me.

[37]

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i havent gone through the first 53 pages so please forgive me....is it just me or the demo isn't in the Playstation Store?

[TheKnack]

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PS3 is out today at 7PM ET