NCAA Basetball 09 Demo Available, Impressions Here

[Motown]

Quote: Originally Posted by J-Unit40

The only thing missing from this demo is... 1. Corey Beck 2. Corliss Williamson 3. Scotty Thurman 4. Al Dillard 5. Dwight Stewart 1994 anyone? Those shorts are huge!

I hear ya man, how 'bout the Runnin' Rebs of UNLV...1990 baaybe

1990 roster
UNLV
Larry Johnson
Stacey Augmon
David Butler
Anderson Hunt
Greg Anthony
Stacey Cvijanovich
Travis Bice
Dave Rice
Barry Young
James Jones
Moses Scurry
Chris Jeter

[sinkdog]

I actually tried really hard to like this demo but something just didn't feel right.

The controls felt very "floaty". The movement of the players, the ball physics, player animations just didn't look right. I never really felt like I had control of things.

The player animations just don't look natural. Every player looks like an old man haunched over. Every pass is lobbed and nothing seems organic. Ball movement is incredible unrealistic and this felt like very last gen basketball to me.

There was nothing about this demo that made me want to go out and buy it -- seriously....I really wanted to have an NCAA Basketball game this year. Oh well.

[Skyboxer]

Ok I still have 2K8 just in case but I will say I wasn't expecting the demo to be as decent as it was. You can see it has some really good gameplay but a lot is hidden behind some bad animation "locks" and jerky animations. Too many times the player I was supposed to be controlling locked in a guard animation and I was unable to do anything. Also every time you get close to another player you automatically went into a double team which left the man I was guarding wide open.
Fix these things and we may have a good game here.

[countryboy]

the game does a lot of things right, but unfortunately, they are "poorly played out". The gameplay seems to be moving faster than the players at times. It just doesn't feel fluid. To me, the players feel one step behind whats actually happening.

[evarts2616]

so they still have the hunch back old man animation in the game after 3 versions hee



what part of that animation will they miss if it is taken out of the game once and for all

[kfloamy]

I for one am enjoying the demo and went ahead and ordered it today.

[PhantomPain]

Wonder why they have the old 3 point line as well as the new one in Rupp Arena? They only have one line and it is the new one. I wonder if all courts will have two lines.

[crques]

Quote: Originally Posted by PhantomPain

Wonder why they have the old 3 point line as well as the new one in Rupp Arena? They only have one line and it is the new one. I wonder if all courts will have two lines.

I was wondering that myself. I was thinking that the women's 3 point line might not have moved back and that's the reason there are 2. I don't really follow women's basketball much so that's just a guess.