NCAA Football 11 Blog: Locomotion, 7 Screenshots and Video (EA Sports)

[Valdarez]

Quote: Originally Posted by TreyIM2

I can't get enough of this vid. Musta watched it over 20 times since yesterday. Loving the leans, "the flailing off hand", which is something I directly posted to EA for Madden improvements after Madden 10 came out last year, and just all around more organic looking animations of ball carriers. Looking at this vid, I do NOT think I'm looking at an EA Sports football game, FOR ONCE! Nice BUT what concerns me is the slipping defender animation. Not sure if my memory is on point but wasn't that over used in NCAA 10? I don't have my NCAA 10 anymore and I could be wrong but that seems to stick out in my memory. I hope they keep that to a minimum, this year. I also like what I read about how momentum will work in context of the controller. This sounds like we're going to have to re-learn, a bit, how we play NCAA Football. I LIKE THAT!! I remember when Madden 2001 came out for the PS2 and how they implemented momentum, then. Needed work but it was a step in the right direction. Now that EA has better consoles to work with, momentum should REALLY be on point, now...or at least in NCAA/Madden 12. Lol. Oh, I'm also wondering how well this will fit in with the "Pro-Tak 2.0" they will be using in NCAA 11 because Pro-Tak in Madden 10, more times than not, looked akward although I LOVED the fact that they at least FINALLY implemented REAL gang tackling. The new momentum tech should really make the "new" Pro-Tak function well...so I hope. I was already amped for this game prior to this announcement and vid and NOW, I don't know what to do with myself....except go play Madden 10 while waiting for my clothes to dry....or even download the NCAA 10 demo, AGAIN, and just get into that college atmosphere train of thought.

Ian had said they targeted it for M10, but couldn't get it in. It's nice to see Madden / NCAA getting the same features in the same year. Sounds like they are finally starting to use the same code base at some level, which they really should have been doing from day one. Base code base for football, and then configure it for each genre (NFL, NCAA, Arena, etc...). The animations they highlighted definitely looked slick. It's going to be interesting to see gameplay vids coming out to see how momentum is actually implemented.

One of the things I really liked hearing about was they hand on the back. I hate the animation where the ball carrier runs into the back of a blocker and just runs in place. That's so annoying, especially since this hasn't been a problem in 2K games for awhile. Momentum, acceleration, decelleration, cuts, and the like are a long time coming to NCAA/Madden. Lets hope they got it right.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigFan77

Valdarez, I’m the Art Director on NCAA11 and new to the forums. The animations were captured straight from the console. There’s no magic there. You’ll be able to see the game like this on your console as well. The game captures are not hacked in any way. We feel the game is looking outstanding and are showing the game in its true form. On another the note. The Arkansas face mask is correct in game. I’ll post some screen shots later this week showing the correction as well as all available facemasks for this cycle. Jean Adams

Jean, welcome to the boards. Things are look good so far. I noticed you said the Arkansas face mask is correct, how about the Iowa facemask? Ion helmets? Dreadlocks? The ball actually spinning when in the air? QB throwing motions? Just a simple yes or no if those things have been fixed or adjusted would answer a lot of questions people have towards certain art department features although the QB throwing motions would seem to fall under the same category as those that handled the locomotion so that might not be your department.

Either way, this year's game compared to last looks like night and day. Keep up the good work.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by TreyIM2

Nice BUT what concerns me is the slipping defender animation. Not sure if my memory is on point but wasn't that over used in NCAA 10? I don't have my NCAA 10 anymore and I could be wrong but that seems to stick out in my memory. I hope they keep that to a minimum, this year.

I dont think it will be overused, it looks a lot like the WR slipping animation they added last year. I didnt think that one was overused.

[gator3guy]

I hope this means the qb/zone reads will finally work correctly this year.

[cowboy_kmoney]

This is what Ive been saying all along is for the Madden team and NCAA team working togather to bring the best football game ever to there fans of both games. Now all they have to do is come up with a realistic importing system by sending all the players leaving Their schools at the end of the season will be imported into Madden as draft classess every year.

[kjhen]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigFan77

Valdarez, I’m the Art Director on NCAA11 and new to the forums. The animations were captured straight from the console. There’s no magic there. You’ll be able to see the game like this on your console as well. The game captures are not hacked in any way. We feel the game is looking outstanding and are showing the game in its true form. On another the note. The Arkansas face mask is correct in game. I’ll post some screen shots later this week showing the correction as well as all available facemasks for this cycle. Jean Adams

Hello Jean, i just wanted to know if u guys added the ION Schutt 4D and Schutt Air XP helmets for clarification. i just haven't heard anything about these helmets in the list of new equipment or in pics.

[kbigmike2121]

The locomotion in this game looks sick! The running animations look way more authentic...

[gator3guy]

Need this more than any other