NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[wde1723]

Don't think this has been mentioned, haven't read all 94 pages either though, but after scrambling with the quaterback on a pass play when i juke he pump fakes, anyone else notcied this? Really hope this is a demo glitch because that would really be bad if it was in the retail game.

[a4reak]

Quote: Originally Posted by wde1723

Don't think this has been mentioned, haven't read all 94 pages either though, but after scrambling with the quaterback on a pass play when i juke he pump fakes, anyone else notcied this? Really hope this is a demo glitch because that would really be bad if it was in the retail game.

right stick = pump fake

[michigan21]

Quote: Originally Posted by DubTrey1

I am not going to pick this one a part this year - Bottom line for me, suprisingly enuff - is to skip NCAA 09 this year and wait for Madden 09. It seems for the first time in a long time, Madden has alot more going for it than NCAA does this year 'round. I suppose next year will be the year for NCAA. It should get all of the bastardized features from Madden this year and a few others. All I want is a good game of football at this point, don't care if it's NCAA or NFL at this point or not. Just my sole opinion.

I have to agree with you. I finally downloaded the demo and played a couple of games and while I think there have been improvements, there just is no presentation. The tackles are still canned. The trench wars between the o-line and the d-line are non existant. And the game moves to damn fast. I hope the finished product has more polish then the demo. Time will tell.

[oldman]

I really have enjoyed the demo so far. I have played about three games and watched another one played. There is something about running in open space in this game that I think they have nailed, it actually feels different than everything else. I am really looking forward to the release.

On a glitch note:

After an onside kick, no matter what happens on the drive, when it shows a drive summary it says, plays 0, yards 0, time 0. Anyone else noticed this? I tried several onside kicks just to see what would happen and it happened on all of them.

Has anyone gotten to use the ice the kicker yet? What is it like?

[TheBest]

Okay, when I pull up the play diagram and receivers, there is a ? mark and lines get all squiggly and the screen shakes. What is this?

[LDX97]

wait, you can finally watch the cpu vs cpu on next gen???? I'm at 40 percent. Hopefully you can have cpu vs cpu in madden also

[DONF]

After playing the demo quite a bit I am just the only thing I can think to say is, " Is this it??"

I sure hope EA does not put this on the shelves and try and sell us on the fact this is a solid sim college football game. Don't get me wrong, it is not bad, but it is a long shot when it comes to football. Everything from the redundant solo tackles to the game speed is not up to par. Even the booth review is wayyyyy off the mark and out of sync with what is going on, on the field. Please stop the wining excuse it is on varsity. Varsity has nothing to do with the animation and over gameplay. Let alone Corso's terrible riff on the game.

Are uniforms going to get dirty and the field torn up in the final build?

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickdalewood

This obviously has no significance whatsoever, but: I love the XMB graphic/screen/wallpaper (whatever you want to call it) of NCAA on the PS3 if you let it sit without hitting "X" to start the game up. C'mon, who's with me? I can't be the only one... right??

I've always liked that. Every game has it though... well except for the 2K games. lol