NCAA Football 10 Videos (IGN)

[DONF]

Quote: Originally Posted by umd

Agree. We shall see. I'm thinking Team Builder is this year's NCAA headline, not gameplay. Last year was OD and wide-open gameplay. What's the on the field fix coming this year?

EA Football creations are all about gimmicks. Just look at the comments from it's users. The request for realistic gameplay has been stated thousands of times. Makes you wonder why they are unable to provide.

[floridagatorfan]

This just looks like NCAA is headed the wrong direction with gameplay while Madden might be getting things figured out. I do not want gimmicks like guessing whether the opponent will run right. It looks horrible as you do not ever see all seven players in the box run to the right immediately after the snap before even seeing the quarterback hand the ball off to the rb.

These videos just make me think that the developers of NCAA don't get it. I do not want these stupid features, I want solid gameplay that gives the resemblance of a real game. Follow the footsteps of Ian and Madden in the direction they are taking it.

Adding this pre play guess what the opponent is going to do feature it just is adding something that is not at all realistic and poorly implemented. I wouldn't mind it if it was better implemented but it was not. Rather than have the Defenders running before even seeing the play, how about making a guess the pass or run feature. If you guess run linebackers wait till they make sure the rb is not going to get the ball before dropping into their zone or following their man. The Defensive line will stay on their blocks and try and push the linemen back rather than rushing up field to get the quarterback. This way it looks realistic and can still have strong gameplay implications. Now the offense can set up the run, call a play action pass, and when the QB fakes the handoff it freezes the LBs and allows the TE to sneak behind them to receive a pass.

I really want NCAA to be a good football game as I am a big fan of college football but these features lead me to believe that I am going to be very dissappointed like I was last year with how poorly the speed of the game was implemented. Add things that increase the realism of the game. I do not have to have a perfect sim game but I at least want a videogame realism, kind of like with movies I want movie realism. Clearly if the game was a true sim it would be boring, having to play 3 and a half hour games.

[floridagatorfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by DONF

EA Football creations are all about gimmicks. Just look at the comments from it's users. The request for realistic gameplay has been stated thousands of times. Makes you wonder why they are unable to provide.

At least I get the impression that Madden, through all the community interaction, is starting to go down the right path. I do not get the same feeling from the NCAA team and it worries me. I feel like NCAA is developed by people that do not have a true passion for football and instead think these pre play gimmicks are what people really want.

Instead of adding any of these features, focus on gameplay and presentation to make games feel more like a tv broadcast.

[SA1NT401]

Overall about what i was expecting. But what really gets me is the fact, like ALOT have said already, it is WAY too fast and Arcade-y.

Hope to GOD there is a SPEED slider.

And as i was expecting...Ice skating is still synonimous with video game football. Why they cannot do something about that is beyond me. I cant stand the "FLOATY" aspect of the animations in general.

PS...I also agree the "GUESS" stuff is just plain STUPID. NO TEAM completely sells out to one side or the other.....MAYBE once every 5000 plays....Stupid addition IMO. Should have just kept guess RUN and PASS.

[mjussawalla]

I don't understand why the players still turn on a dime. I thought this was one of the videos we saw for Madden - which at the time they stated would be shared with NCAA.

Guess not...

[Nature_Boy]

I've been so wrapped up in Madden 10, I have paid much attention to NCAA 10. Thanks for posting the videos.

[bamaCT12]

was it just me or was FSU a A+ overall, that can't happen, just can't, please don't let that happen EA

[BBkobe87]

My main concern is with the game speed. I remember playing the madden demo last year and one of the reasons I didn't buy it was the fact the game speed was soooo much faster than what I was used to with ncaa. PLEASE EA give us a game speed slider!