NCAA Football 13 Impressions Thread

[The JareBear]

Just played my first game, Northwestern (me) vs Oklahoma (at Northwestern)

Everything default, AA diff

I lost 35-14. Threw 3 picks, was sacked twice. Had 71 rushing yards on 22 attempts. CPU wemt 7-7 passing for 141 yards, 91 rushing yards on 17 attempts.

I honestly felt like it played a pretty clean game of football. The bottom line is, the problems that people have that are always there every year are still there (movement, blocking) but the game felt pretty smooth. I was burned deep on a cover 3 play call which I will just chalk up to OU having better players than NU.

[Mtolliver_2013]

Played a game on Heisman. I was USC and i played Oregon. Oregon's chrome 2 helmets look nice!

I won 24-10. I noticed that every kickoff went into the endzone. I know that they moved up 5 yards but might to tweak that.

played 1 online match and the kid quit

Starting up a Michigan dynasty for fun for now, since they are my hometown team and in a week or 2, ill start my legit one with USC.

[jyoung]

CPU option game is not looking good:

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462594

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462557

That was just from one game, and the CPU only called like 3 or 4 option plays on me the whole game, 2 of which went right to my defender.

Also, when I tried to run an option play of my own, I got this weird play where the QB threw an abysmal pitch and the ref blew the play dead as soon as I picked up the fumble:

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462640

[Gotmadskillzson]

Confirmed............

EA got rid of pass block footwork, pass block strength, run block footwork, run block strength. It is now just run block, pass block and impact block.

And there is a Game Play Tuner update already. What it tuned I don't know, but I sure was prompted to download it.

[franch1se]

playing a quick game..USC vs Miami. Just showed Miami's coach on the sideline after I scored and he's wearing a suit! Pretty cool. Sound is better once you turn it up to 100 and the commentators down, game plays smoother then the demo imo.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by jyoung

CPU option game is not looking good: http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462594 http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462557 That was just from one game, and the CPU only called like 3 or 4 option plays on me the whole game, 2 of which went right to my defender. Also, when I tried to run an option play of my own, I got this weird play where the QB threw an abysmal pitch and the ref blew the play dead as soon as I picked up the fumble: http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/125462640

Already saw two of those option interceptions myself.

I'm actually pretty pleased with the game overall after a cursory glance, but hopefully the cpu option ai is something that can be addressed in a title update.

[Gotmadskillzson]

I only see one style of dreads and it is the very long dreads and only medium skinned players seem to have that option, no dark or light person had a dread model head. Might have to do with the height and or weight of the player I guess. Also no long hair for white players either, none of them go passed the neck line at all.

[The JareBear]

I ran it back with 8 min QTRs and am getting a very different experience, this time it is me Northwestern, hosting Ohio State. At the end of the first QTR I am up 13-0. Hit a deep ball against cover 2 zone (why they were in cover 2 on third and long concerns me only because the CPU did this a LOT in the demo) and I picked off Braxton Miller twice. I can't finish the game but saw some more things I liked in this one QTR of play.

When I get home later I am gonna bump it up to heisman and see how that plays.