NCAA Football 10 Hands-On Preview (Teamxbox)

[stylee]

Quote: Originally Posted by boritter

Have you ever seen a d-lineman pirouette on one foot to make a 90 degree turn without slowing down at all in NCAA? I have seen it thousands of times. They literally do not slow down at all. This is very common on play fakes where the d-lineman sprints after the RB than turns on one foot toward the QB w/o any loss of speed. Have you ever seen a 260 lb. + person (let alone Barry Sanders) do that in real life? No, because it's impossible in a world governed by the laws of physics.

QFT.

Running back goes through hole
DE moves towards QB, stops, turns arounds, sprints in other direction and stops RB for 1 yard gain.
IRL that never happens. In the game it's common.

[Young J 334]

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[SoxFan01605]

Here's what I don't understand. Why have someone do an article on the game who doesn't seem to know what he's talkking about. He spent a chunk mentioning that in NCAA 10 he could now seem to win a game in different ways, while in 09 you were stuck to a certain strategy.

The issue was, in fact, the reverse. There was NO strategy. You could run the option with anyone, go full out air-attack, etc with zero personnel consideration. Oh well...just getting tired of seeing the same generic gloss-over type previews of these games. I know he mentioned a strategy element being in place this year...but that came after he said the game played roughly the same...lol.

That's the one theme I'm noticing (as other's have mentioned)...a lot of people keep saying the game plays pretty much like 09. Am I mistaken, or didn't they share some of the new tech Madden will be using for 10? I ask because unless you LOVE college football to no end, it would seem hard to move back to the NCAA game if you got a taste of the new gameplay in Madden (assuming everything works somewhat close to as advertised...lol). Hopefully some of what was shared, makes the game a more immersive experience. I am excited to try out the team builder, so it would be nice if the team I built could be put into a great game.

Not really griping here...just not finding much useful or encouraging info from these little previews is all.