NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[UMiami]

Played it for a few hours last night. This will be the first time in over 10 years I will not be buying it. It feels like NCAA 2012 after a 3rd patch. Crowd sounds better and the defense doesn't have psychic AI. That's about it. Everything else is EXACTLY the same. They added studio updates which... after a while, get extremely annoying. Looks, feels, plays exactly the same as it has for the past 3 years.

$29.99 might be worth the upgrade but $59.99 is simply insulting.

[Slim4824]

To people complaining about receievers catching streak routes deep without looking when the ball is thrown. This is not unrealistic. Often a streak route is thrown and the receiver has to find the ball in the air after it is thrown.

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[josef]

Love the sideline catches and new passing improvements (although WR #10 for LSU is not THAT good in real life.. lol).. LSU crowd chants are sweet.. Really solid game with a lot of small improvements from 12.. commentary is a little stale, but the new ESPN stuff is quite lovely. I'm sure the final build will be even better..

I'm not sure if I'd keep my pre-order if it was $59, but for $45 on Amazon, I'll be buying.. it'll definitely hold me over until Madden. Great year for football fellas!

[Mauer4MVP]

I won't get to play the demo until tomorrow.

For those of you who have, would you say it has made your decision easier whether to buy it or not?

[morecowbell221]

I was impressed. I mean guys we aren't going to get what we want, but I think the game is getting better. I found the new passing system great. I threw poorly due to my tendency to throw on the run, but this of course added to the realism. The receivers were better, and I enjoyed better blocking on returns. Although I'm still disappointed with a 2D looking crowd, but it was better then last year and louder. The timing of the loudness of the crowd was close to spot on. I loved it. And on a second note, guys not buying this game won't encourage EA to improve it, they will be encouraged to discontinue it. But overall 8.5/10.

[rerdivine]

The game does feel alot smoother. Crowd is really good this year. Commentary is much better imo.
A deft buy.

[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]

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.