NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Hassan Darkside]

Anybody know if there's gonna be options for gamespeed this year?

[Dianwei32]

Just played a game of Mizzou/Clemson, and I have to say that I am impressed. I'll admit that I've been playing a good deal of a certain... other football game... so it took a bit of time to get back into the swing of EA football, but NCAA 11 is the best EA football game I've played recently.

The presentation was great, the graphics were amazing, and the gameplan feature was nice, although I had to opt out of it a few times when there was a certain play I wanted to run (mainly the Wildcat or option plays). Locomotion and the revamped blocking made the game great. Overall, I would say that the demo pushed me from not having any interest in NCAA 11 to seriously considering purchasing it.

My one complaint is player speed. The recievers move too fast when running routes (unless all of Clemson's WRs have 95+ Speed/Acceleration). I tried to call a simple slant play, but by the time I dropped back the WR was halfway acoss the field.

[KleShreen]

There's no stats to check, but everytime I have scored on an option, the announcers talk as if it was a passing play, even when the ball clearly went backwards on the pitch. I hope these aren't getting counted as passes/passing yards.

[Cito2009]

I think the game has improved a lot. The graphics and lighting are really cool. The movement is odd but im getting used to it. I like it though. I like the way the ball is thrown now, fades and corners can now be thrown how you think they should be thrown.
I also think the running is better in that you don't need to just hit speed burst and try to plow ahead, you actually have a second to read the blocks and short juke or side step into a hole etc. Speed burst seems to work best with timing it. Anyway its better then 10 for sure and I like where the game has gone and where its going.

[Potatoes002]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruff Ryder

Anybody know if there's gonna be options for gamespeed this year?

Yes, they have announced this will be in.

[Sting]

Heisman is terrible. You play this on Varsity and you have yourself a good product.

[LionsFanNJ]

Wow. I wasn't expecting to like NCAA this much. But all the additions this year are adding up

1. The lighting on all four games was awesome. The Texas/OU game just looked HOT on the field, compared to OSU's sun in the Horseshoe. (will we actually get plain cloudy games now? UF/FSU cloudy evening game. Awesome)

2.The Run blocking is glorious. Though on AA i'm not that great running yet except for a few Read Options.

3. Pressure some guys say they don't see it, but i've gotten quite good bit of pressure making the QB throw early. But they started to adjust when i blitzed to much and called quick slants and streaks.

4. Locomotion makes reading D great, i like how safeties and corners can't cover the entire field in a second, AND how high ACC guys get open FAST. Not to mention fast guys getting seperation deep which leads to my next point. And they feel like they have weight somewhat.

5. INCOMPLETIONS. The CPU actually had passes off target and hit the ground or throw high and the defense making plays when it makes sense AKA no jetpack D.

and this doesn't even mention all the gear and badass look of the shoes with accents, plus i feel like i can PLAY defense that matters this year. If a few of the gripes get ironed out in the final build (hoping or a little more of a push up front on D, though star players PLAY like star players.

Man, what a jump. I'm all over this game when it releases and may be my only football game if the Madden demo doesn't wow me like this. Good stuff.

[RamblinWreck21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sting

Heisman is terrible. You play this on Varsity and you have yourself a good product.

I think I will end up playing with a slider adjusted Varsity level this year.