NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[IndyColts2]

-Great presentation for a demo, hopefully the real game has even more things like halftime, postgame etc.
-Graphics are very good
-Great to see you can actually pass without the defenders warping over to break it up.
- Running game is very good as well
- I am loving the sideline catches! I have seen like 5 different ones so far!
- The game is amazing and I cant wait to get it!

The Bad
- It might just be the demo but the commentary sometimes either skips or speeds up. Its like fast forwarding to a different line and you can hear it. Wierd.
- The player movement is very good with locomotion, its just that players feet dont move the right way when running. They are skating just a little. Their feet when turning are still parallel to the players shoulders. When you turn your feet reach out a little to the sides. if they fix that the players will look a lot better when moving.
- LBs dont have anymore superhuman plays, but the pass trajectory is still not fixed for over the middle passes. It needs a little more loft without losing ball speed so that it actually gets over the LBs heads.
- Also, defenders dont react to runs quick enough. I still see players just standing around at the line until the

Other than that this game is going to be sick!

[charga21]

anybody mind posting vids of gameplay?

[AirLobo23]

Tosses & Sweeps are completely broken thanks to the horrible lead & pull blocking. It's Madden '10 all over again.

Was real assignment AI not put into the demo or is that broke too?

I am enjoying the demo greatly, but the above is frustrating.

[TheShizNo1]

I was all excited to download this and play. Downloaded it, played a half and no longer have a desire to play. I didn't not like it, and it def seems to be a different game, but for whatever reason, i have no desire to play this demo a million times like i have in previous years

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by REDRZA

Finally, after all these years (Original Madden on sega genesis, 1989) i am kinda over EA football. EA Tiburon's football titles go through the same M.O. each and every year. MINOR improvements and tweaks to the same old game and engine(s). They throw out catchy tech terms for their "features" ie; "Pro-tak", "Locomotion" etc. I mean, if you step back and look at it for what it is, they actually have to pump and tout gang tackles and realistic player movement? Shouldn't these things be in football titles on pretty powerful hardware by now, 2010? It's not that the games are AWFUL, it's that they are just OLD and STALE. Tweaks and minor improvements aren't cutting it anymore, not for me. After playing this demo i cannot overcome the feeling of blandness. No exitement or juice, it doesn't grip me. I want to love these games badly, like i used to for many years. EA Tiburon just hasn't done anything with this generation of hardware. Even other EA Sports titles are flat out better. NHL, Fight Night, FIFA. Not to mention other sports games like sony's MLB the show. You see what other developers have done with this hardware (even non sports titles) and its depressing to think what Football COULD and SHOULD be by now. EA will never give us a "new" football experience this generation. They will keep tweaking the existing game. That holds for a few weeks then after those tweaks wear off, its the same old game nuts and bolts.

Hmm...somehow I missed the "impression" part of that post. If you have specific comments about the demo, let's hear them.

[vols bravesfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheShizNo1

I was all excited to download this and play. Downloaded it, played a half and no longer have a desire to play. I didn't not like it, and it def seems to be a different game, but for whatever reason, i have no desire to play this demo a million times like i have in previous years

Maybe you dont like good games.

[jmik58]

Quote: Originally Posted by derek1741

I like the presentation, but about 8 mins in on that video is really REALLY troubling to me. Two lineman run right by the linebacker on the sweep. I'm only concerned with running game on NCAA and this tells me there's still some tweaking to do with the Real Assignment AI. Hopefully this is because it's an old build, but I doubt it.

I was initially concerned by that as well, but I then took a step back and reminded myself that this does happen sometimes.

Linebacker pickups are some of the toughest things a lineman has to do, and I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be to watch a linemen pull and not even see the guy he was going for.

A good linebacker will recognize the pull and take an angle that is sharp enough that the lineman can't pick him up.

Let's wait until a pattern is present before calling it a bad thing when it could be quite the opposite.

[TheShizNo1]

vols bravesfan, seriously?