NCAA Football 11 Hands-On Preview

[ProjectSRT]

Quote: Originally Posted by BORN4CORN

Alright, alright... that sounded pretty promising, but I need to hear more. Glad to hear that the first vid was (apparently) a mistake. I bet whoever let that out is currently looking for a new job. Entrances Blog next PLEASE!

Yea im with you. I wanna hear more on those entrances. Im not asking for much. What they had in NCAA 2005 would work for me. I just wanna see the Hurricanes running through the smoke.

[bh446066]

Quote: Originally Posted by TombSong

As I read the preview, I thought to myself, were are all the videos to back what he is saying, because to date what he wrote ain't been seen. Ill concede the benefit of the doubt because the guy has played the game, but this is all very similar to last year. Great pre-release write ups then the actual game comes up way short. Save this preview and document it. Come July we will find out if this was gospel or snake oil. This aint no "we gotta hide our tech from the competition" thing going on here. There aint no college football competition. This is the only game in town. No real reason to hide anything at this point. Which is why I cant understand the "it was a mistake game play release video stuff" OK, it was a mistake......where is the video you meant to release ?!? That HAS to be in existence NOW, else how was what they showed labeled the "mistake" show me the money....where is that video they wanted to show ? I have been holding my tongue on most of this "release info" because I want to wait and see what the final product will be before passing judgement. However I just found it odd, they release a crap gameplay vid, then say oh nah that was some old build, but then don't release what they planned to release. Then on top of that, see your madden brothers release a video and the game play looks a lot like what we have in our hands already. No judgment yet from me....just things that make me go hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I agree with pretty much everything you are saying, but I will say that the gameplay video on IGN definitely looks a ton better than the first gameplay video we saw. I still saw some "skating", but it wasn't near as bad, and the running/cutting looked a helluva lot better, so I'm inclined to believe that may have been an old build. Whatever. I love what I'm reading, but I need to see more with my own 2 eyes.

Before the first gameplay video was "leaked", I was 85-90% on the bandwagon. After the release, I was knocked back to about 30%. After seeing the reviews, I'm about back up to 70%. It's going to be a looong 3 months for me. I'm dying for a good PS3 football game.

[Bumble14]

Quote: Originally Posted by TombSong

As I read the preview, I thought to myself, were are all the videos to back what he is saying, because to date what he wrote ain't been seen. Ill concede the benefit of the doubt because the guy has played the game, but this is all very similar to last year. Great pre-release write ups then the actual game comes up way short. Save this preview and document it. Come July we will find out if this was gospel or snake oil. I have said it a lot. If your game is really good and you believe in it. You wont have nothing to hide. In fact you cant wait to show it off. If you want your pre-orders to go way up and what you have made is like crack, you are gonna show it off. If its garbage, then yeah, you gonna hide it, and sell hype to try and get them pre-orders up. This aint no "we gotta hide our tech from the competition" thing going on here. There aint no college football competition. This is the only game in town. No real reason to hide anything at this point. Which is why I cant understand the "it was a mistake game play release video stuff" OK, it was a mistake......where is the video you meant to release ?!? That HAS to be in existence NOW, else how was what they showed labeled the "mistake" show me the money....where is that video they wanted to show ? I have been holding my tongue on most of this "release info" because I want to wait and see what the final product will be before passing judgement. However I just found it odd, they release a crap gameplay vid, then say oh nah that was some old build, but then don't release what they planned to release. Then on top of that, see your madden brothers release a video and the game play looks a lot like what we have in our hands already. No judgment yet from me....just things that make me go hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Videos and other media will be released in the coming weeks by EA. You have to realize that the reason embargo's on this type of stuff exists is because EA is trying to promote their product, eventually building everyone up, releasing tidbits at a time. It's marketing 101 my friend. Trust me, if I could have taken direct feed videos I would have, but we have to respect EA on this one, and let them be the ones to release this information. I'm sure we will have a copy of the game in the next 8 weeks and we can take direct feed video at that point to share with everyone.

I'm a big fan of the series, and had completely given up on the series after NCAA 10. Trust me when I say I had very low expectations going into this event. What I saw blew me away. People should be positive and excited about this game.

[BROman]

Quote: Originally Posted by mm boost

My god, I've never been so excited for something in my life. I have chills and could almost tear up after reading that review. I've been secretly to myself begging for all of these things they are adding each year while playing. I am so damn excited I can't stand it. The part where he talked about the team entrances and the presentation and unique team play and the animations...gahhhhhhhhhh. The fact that there will be more "life" to the game is what is intriguing me. Presentation sounds to be spot on, espn tidbits, guys shoving each other after the play, team entrances, etc. Gosh I can not put into words how excited i am. I am hoping and praying the big announcments is couching carousel in the dynasty mode. I will die a happy man!

sounds like somebody's gonna be camping out @ valley view

[yanks26ngoin]

I will hold off on getting too excited about team specific entrances until I read the blog. If I dont see anything about Michigan's entrance where they run out of the tunnel and jump to the the banner, I will be pissed.

[Bumble14]

Quote: Originally Posted by bh446066

I agree with pretty much everything you are saying, but I will say that the gameplay video on IGN definitely looks a ton better than the first gameplay video we saw. I still saw some "skating", but it wasn't near as bad, and the running/cutting looked a helluva lot better, so I'm inclined to believe that may have been an old build. Whatever. I love what I'm reading, but I need to see more with my own 2 eyes. Before the first gameplay video was "leaked", I was 85-90% on the bandwagon. After the release, I was knocked back to about 30%. After seeing the reviews, I'm about back up to 70%. It's going to be a looong 3 months for me. I'm dying for a good PS3 football game.

Not too sure where IGN got that "gameplay" video, but it was not on the asset disc I was sent from EA PR. Trust me when I say that the IGN video looks like it was from a much earlier build than I played. Also, I wouldn't put too much stock into anything the IGN guys say- I was at the event, they spent a grand total of 10 minutes with the game before moving on to interview celebs and athletes.

Tthere's a reason why I spent the entire 6 hour draft party Tuesday parked in the area of the club showing off the game, and an additional 3 hours Wednesday at the season preview really dissecting just about everything I was seeing on screen in the game.I'm pretty sure Roy, Russ and Ben couldn't wait to get rid of me because I was glued to them my entire trip.

[MaizeHaze]

Quote: Originally Posted by yanks26ngoin

I will hold off on getting too excited about team specific entrances until I read the blog. If I dont see anything about Michigan's entrance where they run out of the tunnel and jump to the the banner, I will be pissed.

Roy is a Michigan fan! I'm sure they where at the top of his list.

[TreyIM2]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bumble14

Not too sure where IGN got that "gameplay" video, but it was not on the asset disc I was sent from EA PR. Trust me when I say that the IGN video looks like it was from a much earlier build than I played. Also, I wouldn't put too much stock into anything the IGN guys say- I was at the event, they spent a grand total of 10 minutes with the game before moving on to interview celebs and athletes. Tthere's a reason why I spent the entire 6 hour draft party Tuesday parked in the area of the club showing off the game, and an additional 3 hours Wednesday at the season preview really dissecting just about everything I was seeing on screen in the game.I'm pretty sure Roy, Russ and Ben couldn't wait to get rid of me because I was glued to them my entire trip.

I am trusting u on this one, mang, and I definitely believe what you are saying about this game. Somebody had posted a link to a tweet u made yesterday or the day before and although I don't quite remember what it said (sorry, there's been A TON of info regarding NCAA/Madden11 in recent days blurring my brain) but I think it was a long the same line about not believing exactly the vids we've seen as they were not representative of what you've played.

I look forward to your Madden 11 preview. U've got me even more electric in regards to NCAA 11, right about now.