NCAA Football 12 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[tmac55]

The two things that I like the most are that sideline emotions are gone for the opposing team scoring drives and the celebrate with the mascot feature is gone as well. The latter used to really annoy me, especially with excessive celebrations being flagged on Saturdays in real life.

Two minor changes which drastically improve my experience with the demo.

[goh]

Just had a real wow moment. My FSU WR was in the back of the endzone with a step on the defender,I was sure the throw was going to go out but he managed to catch it with the ref dodging out of the way and seemingly stopping on a dime from going out on the side of the corner. Then they reviewed it and it was good as it clearly was on the replay.

Yes the grass looks bad during the gameplay. That's my thing. There's a disconnect with graphics in the scenes and the actual gameplay.

[JimmyDarmody]

The first thing I noticed was the enhanced tackling engine and it made the gameplay feel better. I still think play action is broken, the defense never bites even when it's set up. Just gotta take the good with the bad.

[Stavie Steelo]

PS3 doesn't look as good as the 360 demo, so I guess I am going to be getting it for 360.

[FutureAUgrad]

Two things. (My apologies if either of these have previously been covered)

First: While playing as Oregon I broke a 62-yard TD on a designed quarterback run and throughout the entire run, even when there were no defenders within 10 yards of him, he ran as a quarterback would if he were scrambling to escape pressure and then pass. He had two hands on the ball and was carrying it in front of him. He never tucked the ball away even when in the open field. May be an isolated incident but I had it also happen on a kickoff return once or twice.

Second: Speaking of kickoff returns.. I've played one full game and one play of another tonight and have already returned two kickoffs for TDs. Maybe it's just because both teams had great returners, or maybe the blocking on kickoffs is TOO good. Either way if it becomes a problem sliders should be able to help.

Overall, I am liking what I see and can't wait to pick up the game

[NDFan1029]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stavie Steelo

PS3 doesn't look as good as the 360 demo, so I guess I am going to be getting it for 360.

I'm kind of surprised to see that. I've seen retail version play-throughs of the game on PS3 and the colors looked really good. It could just be that the colors on both games are better this year, though. Neither version of the game looks as washed out as it used to.

[Stavie Steelo]

Quote: Originally Posted by NDFan1029

I'm kind of surprised to see that. I've seen retail version play-throughs of the game on PS3 and the colors looked really good. It could just be that the colors on both games are better this year, though. Neither version of the game looks as washed out as it used to.

It wasn't really colors to much. The text under the names looked really weird on PS3 to me. It seemed like it took up a lot of room on the screen and looked really blocky. The Texas field logos didn't look as good and the players looked rougher around the edges and not as smooth. Maybe it is just my PS3 settings. Glad I tried out both demos though will be getting XBox for sure now though.

[FutureAUgrad]

Quote: Originally Posted by Stavie Steelo

It wasn't really colors to much. The text under the names looked really weird on PS3 to me. It seemed like it took up a lot of room on the screen and looked really blocky. The Texas field logos didn't look as good and the players looked rougher around the edges and not as smooth. Maybe it is just my PS3 settings. Glad I tried out both demos though will be getting XBox for sure now though.

I had the same problem with my PS3 demo. On kickoffs I would sometimes get confused as to which player I was controlling because "LOLB #42" was so big that there could be about three different players above the name. Maybe this was just because it was a demo or maybe it was because the names hadn't been edited. I hope so at least.