NCAA Football 09 Demo Available: Discuss Here

[ThatManDan]

Hey sorry if this has been answered all ready, but has anyone figured out how to showboat on there way to a touchdown after a breakaway?

[Klocker]

to me this seems to be a leap in game play from last year, a reasonable boost in the graphics and a hefty boost in animations and interaction.

I am very impressed withy this demo so far (all with the reasonable undertsanding that it IS an old build on Varsity)

looking very good

[Scott]

I noticed the drive summary stats are wrong...I just scored a TD on offense in OT and it said I went 7 plays, 75 yards lol...

[Moostache]

Quote: Originally Posted by pastapadre

They have to put together the demo, test it, then have it go through approval at MS/Sony. It looks like they submitted it earlier this year so that they could have it out earlier and for a specific date that could match both consoles. That is a relatively lengthy process in total. And again I'm going to counter the thoughts that I've seen coming from others who attended the most recent community event. Outside of specific fixes and difficulty level consideration, the general feel of the game is very similar to what you're going to get in the release version. If you expect to be blown away in comparison I think its going to lead to a letdown, unless those specific fixes or upping the difficulty is what makes the difference for you.

I believe that Pasta is making an important but subtle distinction here...I understand what he is saying, the game in the demo is about right in "feel" - the player movement and the momentum and the physics of this demo are not going to be wildly different, but I think the AI and the way the CPU defends things and the ability to pull off certain things like late pitches on the option or maybe some of the more extreme cases of being able to throw on the run WILL be different in the retail version.

Depending on you personal frame of reference, those differences just may actually change your personal feel for the gameplay as well. I know for me personally, I think tthat playing on Varsity difficulty is a big contributor to the problems I experience witht he demo relative to my experiences at teh Community Day. At the CD, I never played the game on anything less than Heisman difficulty for any length of time - head-to-head, practice mode, drills, you name it, I played it on Heisman almost by default.

Pasta - if I have that wrong, please feel free to correct me...

[Scott]

Just an epic game, Lost as LSU against OSU 27-24 in 3 OT when Perrilloux threw an INT to end the game.

[rudyjuly2]

Varsity will always play different than AA or Heisman. The defensive awareness is really different. That's why its disappointing to be able to play with the difficulty levels AND sliders for the Show demo and not be able to touch anything here. I'm sure the size of the demo had something to do with it.

I will say that when running the ball, get off the sprint button! The r-stick is the way to go. I'm also hopeful that EA will redo the DL moves and map the moves to the R-stick. The moves available are simply too limited.

[mikeveli20]

This game is awesome. Although it did freeze on me once after I got a huge TD with LSU to take the lead. One thing I found interesting and I'm sure it was in last year's game as well, the announcer will sometimes say "They should probably just squib it here", but there's no option for a squib kick. Funny how they would record this and then not put the play in the game.

Anyways, can't wait for the 15th!

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by mikeveli20

This game is awesome. Although it did freeze on me once after I got a huge TD with LSU to take the lead. One thing I found interesting and I'm sure it was in last year's game as well, the announcer will sometimes say "They should probably just squib it here", but there's no option for a squib kick. Funny how they would record this and then not put the play in the game. Anyways, can't wait for the 15th!

I noticed that too haha..