NCAA Football 14 Video - First Look at New Gameplay Engine

[jagsrock95]

Why do I still only see only one defender at a time making momentum changing contact/tackle/wrapping up with the others just whiffing or just falling to the ground. I do like how the stiff arm looks though.

[bpac55]

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same cleats and equipment for going on 5 years now?

[newtonfb]

You guys are delusional.

Foot planting...great..except for the fact that i saw multiple times throughout the video where I saw a player "slide"
All the animations are so terrible!!!! Everyone is so stiff. Real physics my ***. You cant have "real" physics with robots running around.
What the hell is with the RB trucking a guy and the defender leaping off the ground..thats just stupid.

I want to be excited..i really do but, im going to pass until next gen comes out and hopefully they have a real updated engine. The engine they use now is so dated its embarrassing for a video game in 2013. Jesus..to see the animations in the video its just embarrassing. Nobody is running fluid and "foot planting" isnt even close to where it should be. Backbreaker wasnt a great game we all know that but atleast they had the engine in the right direction

[StoneTomcat]

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Are they forgetting that we had the jukes while running and the step back juke years ago and then they take them out and put them back in years later and act like its totally new to the game

[khaliib]

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its not a gameplay vid. its to show you exactly what we saw. guys getting plowed over. we have been asking for it. they give it to us and we complain already because it look overpowered. its all they showed, of course it looks overpowered. they were showcasing the feature. just wait for game play vids.

-I've seen post like yours over the past 6 yrs.
-"wait for gameplay video's..."
-By the time these video's are out, it's too late to make any changes/adjustments.
-Now we have to do the "wait-n-see" for the 1st, 2nd and if we are lucky, 3rd Patch.

The video doesn't lie!
What's there is what's in the game in it's current state.

Guys have been getting "Plowed Over" since release on this console, so what's there to see.
And who has been asking for this?

Folks need stop using the term "Complaining", really!!!
We're just noting what we see as issues preventing this game from being what it should be by now.

Really, find a new term folks or simply don't respond.

Keep the notations going guys

[damion2721]

Loving the new gear..

[TuscanSota]

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Hopefully now I can try to run the option without being tackled for -2 yards, every single time....

The trailer looks good, and I'm glad they are working on the running game. However, I want to to know if there's going to be more to the game- maybe FCS teams, or new features in Dynasty?

[PVarck31]

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I've gotten so used to the bad running animations that I think that's how people run in real life. So they don't even bother me anymore. lol

But seriously, it looks like an improvement so far. At least they are trying with the foot planting we've been asking for, for 7 years.

[jtott]

If there is no playable broadcast camera in the game .... Then it will be another year of no ncaa football for me

[DMVJRT]

1. I wish they would make the sprinting look more natural. It doesnt flow, it almost looks like their doing the dougie. How hard is that to fix, at least for the smaller players, jesus.

2. Alot of the broken tackles were against defensive backs, but lets be honest its not everyday you see someone get ran over to the point where they look like they got hit by a 16 wheeler. Cmon EA lets get some more realistic trucking animations, it looks ridiculous.

3. I want to see man on man defense, because in madden it was ridiculous, the damn corners would know where the receiver was going before the WR even made his correct cuts. I suspect it had something to do with the infinity engine.

4 All in all, im excited i mean it cant get much better than what im seeing. They Presentation and Dynasty should be great.

[kingsofthevalley]

Break down

0:30 (+) Now thats how footplanting is supposed to look.

0:40 (+) Nice cut animation. (-) This is where proper defensive animations come into play to add to the overall look. Defender should be extending that left arm in a grab attempt.

0:43 (+) Another nice cut animation. (-) Once again, need that reach animation implemented gents.

0:46 (+) Exactly what I'm talking about. Nice cut with the defender then going off balance and reaching for the RB. Perfect look. A reach similar to this should be implemented in all the interactions with defenders and RBs.

0:53 (+) No real gameplay significance but I like that lighting and that angle. Just the overall look of the players here catch my attention.

1:02 (-) Still has a somewhat robotic look to the running animations. At this point I dont think this will be remedied within the current console generation.

1:10 (-) Still traces of the zig zag running. You can clearly see it as the RB maneuvers between defenders. Not a good look gents.

1:16 (+) Nice animation here with the RB planting and extending his arm. The ESPN article actually states that RBs now will push off the backs of their O line. This looks like that might be it. This means the limbs are moving independently now which goes back to my previous statement about the defenders reaching in ALL situations. Try to make that happen please.

1:34 (-) That should've been some type of struggle there. Very over the top truck animation in my opinion. Took me out of the moment. Not good.

1:35 (-) I'm prepared for odd things to happen even with the improved infinity engine. That hit did absolutely NOTHING to suspend my disbelief. Totally off. Not a good look.

1:36 (-) Another odd infinity/wrong animation wrong time moment. Not possible. At least not at that angle.

1:39 (+) Nice truck. Good interaction between RB and defender.

1:44 (-) Strange. Defender just flew back. Should've been some type of struggle there.

1:45 (+) PERFECT! Looked very good. Where did that truck come from!!! (Old heads remember the Madden commentary from back in the day)

1:50 (-) Negativo!! Lifted off of his feet and flew back. Nah. Come on now.

1:52 (+) Perfect stiff arm fight animation. I can dig it.

Evened out. 9 plus and 9 minus!! Overall its looking pretty decent though. I'm on the train. Wish they could somehow fix the robotic/stiff aura the game gives off. Animations dont mesh well much of the time so it kind of jars you out of the experience.

[swift kincade]

I feel like they are going in the right direction. (just slowly) but for me its all going to depend on the OL/DL play. That has always been on the top of my wish list. You can't have a run or pass game with out that good line play. I need my line to be able to move and actually try to stay on their block. I need my D-line to have more stunts and better move to break free from a block. (not just pull away) So I will hold out until they talk more about line play. on another note its really lame that that you can't have team colored cleats.

[UMhester04]

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The worst thing from last year: the player would run and say he steps down with his left foot going North, the user would hit up and to the left (NW) on their joystick, and the runners next step would be NW with their right leg, with their body still straight up. This is literally impossible to do in real life and it happened every single play last year.

The next would be how the runners kept their shoulders squared when you tried to turn, so it would just be their lower body turning and their upper body staying still. I still want to know who's grand idea that was.

If these things are fixed, the game will look better x 1000000

[TreyIM2]

I like some of the improvements and see some issues but not really concerned since next gen is almost upon us for both this and Madden. THAT'S where I expect bigger improvements such as player movement and animations and all that. Just going to enjoy what the last hoorah of this gen brings although I won't be buying this, just gunna play the demo. Waiting for Madden 25.

[ch46647]

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I agree Trey, I think it is very telling that for the last game of an 8 year console generation, one of the top gameplay features is realistic footplanting.

I am dissapointed in this news because I can tell this is very small scale. They didnt overhaul the locomotion or running animations, its more a re-write of how the ball carrier moves.

Here is the elephant in the room question EA... Does this new footplanting just include the person carrying the football? For this to be legit, it needs to extend to every player on the field.

Personally, I am ready for next-gen. I am hoping the madden team is pouring a TON of rescources into its development, to avoid this disaster of a football gaming era we have had to endure.