NCAA Basketball 10 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3/360)

[jpup]

I've been getting Offensive rebounds.

[stoncold32]

Good presentation, although Gus and Bill dont talk too much. When I played they mainly only commented when I took a shot, or missed a shot.

Not enough fouls. I went through the whole first game and noticed I hadnt seen a foul the whole time. Finally the second game i forced a few, but only saw 1 free throw thru 3 games.

Kinda disappointed overall with the feel of the game

[yokiisthename]

Played the demo on PS3. It was great, especially when Gus went "OH!!!"

Presentation is awesome, gameplay is much much better than last years.

CPU A.I is fine for me, they run fastbreaks, help defense is there its really great.

Motion offense is so simple and easy, a caveman can do it...

Im sold... I pre ordered the game already...

[x_irish6]

I think I'll regretfully give NCAA 10 a miss this year. Maybe next year will be the year I shelve CH2k8. Unfortunately I just didn't really enjoy playing the demo. I really wanted to but I don't know, just didn't like the feel of the game.

Most of the issues I had with the demo have already been mentioned by other people. Firstly, the game and player speed just seemed far too quick. I loaded up the NBA Live demo, which was reasonably good, & compared the game speed & it was like night & day. I would expect the college game to be slightly slower than the pro version of the game. The demo didn't actually play as well as Live's one, which really surprised me.

The lack of player differentiation was noticeable. I decided to play some games with Duke's bench to see if I could notice the difference and frankly, IMHO it was only marginal. I found that there wasn't much differentiation in skill sets between big men & wings.

Presentation was great as expected and I had no issues with commentary either. Only nitpick on presentation is that some of the CBS overlays didn't stay on screen long enough to read them all. But that can easily be fixed & may be so in the final retail version.

I do agree with ehh though that the game seems to play a lot better on Varsity difficulty level. I didn't enjoy play on higher difficulty levels despite being able to stick with CPU. It just didn't feel like a real college game to me. However on Varsity level it felt better & closer to the real thing.

I think once you get the retail version, hopefully some stuff is patched, you guys will make the necessary adjustments (speed, tendencies etc) to make the then game play pretty well & hopefully represent the college game. Unfortunately I just can't personally justify the expense of importing the game into Australia (probably equivalent all up of US$70-75) considering the demo didn't capture my imagination. It's a shame the import option is my only real avenue to play the game since you can't rent it over here.

Thanks to Country Boy in regards to heads up for getting demo on PS. Hope you guys enjoy the retail version. See you all next year

[DirtyJerz32]

I'm still on the fence with this game. I can't get passed some of the areas ehh mentioned. It's def not a first day buy for me. I'lll wait on some impressions from you guys on Tuesday.

[Hova57]

i think some people are so in love with 2k8 that there not giving game fair chance. not knocking anyone just observation.

[DirtyJerz32]

For me anyway, it would be hard to go from the gameplay of NBA 2k10 to this. The only reason I'm considering getting NCAA is I'm trying to look at it like a NBA game to a college game.

When Madden came out I stopped playing NCAA because they played the same game. Had the same engine and everything else. With this though it's truly like playing another bball game.

[rckabillyRaider]

Quote: Originally Posted by DirtyJerz32

For me anyway, it would be hard to go from the gameplay of NBA 2k10 to this. The only reason I'm considering getting NCAA is I'm trying to look at it like a NBA game to a college game. When Madden came out I stopped playing NCAA because they played the same game. Had the same engine and everything else. With this though it's truly like playing another bball game.

Exactly how I feel bro. I'm still buying this damn game anyways though