NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[War Machine]

Game looks and feels nice. Really like the new locomotion. Cant wait till the retail version drops. Also i love the sideline catches.

Overall: Real nice and will probably buy it when it hits stores.

[Arkavian]

Everything looked good last night.

My only gripes are this:

1. I liked last years audible and play selection screen better. It takes too long to cycle through plays, particularly defensive plays against a no huddle team.

2. Rain. Just like last year, it seems any game played outside in a southern state is in the rain. Yes it rains more than other places in the south. But I can count on my hands the number of times I watched a game in the rain the last couple of years.

I played the demo a lot last night and the only place the game did not rain while playing was the tOSU and Miami match up. EA please tone down the rain showers. I'm tired of playing almost EVERY game in the rain with random weather is turned on.

3. Lack of a pass rush. I only managed to get 3 sacks total last night in the game. That was only when I dialed up a safety blitz. My D-Line men are getting flattened almost instantly when I try to bring pressure. I hope sliders can help fix that.

[MaizeHaze]

The presentation of this game is unreal.
1. espn opening music
2. team entrances
3. players warming up and a highlighted player
4. cut scenes of fans, players on the sidelines celebrating a score. I even saw a player warming up on a excercise bike LOL!
5. post game celebration w/players exiting through the tunnel slapping high 5's with the fans

Night and day compared to what we've ever had!

[dkrause1971]

Quote: Originally Posted by mgoblue678

I agree about the player models, they are good for the most part. When I said graphics, I was more referring to the jaggies. The games with clear weather during the day seem to have a ton of jaggies, the games where it is raining or overcast seem to have less. I have seen the CPU QB scramble and run about 4 times in my games. Would like to see more, but it still is a bit of an improvement from last year where they didn't scramble at all. The last game I played against OSU Prior took off twice on scrambles for 15 and 20 yards. Only bad part is he fumbled at the end of both of them, but at least the CPU ripped off a couple of good runs with him. Still haven't seen one designed run from Pryor in three games, which is concerning. Also keep in mind with the regards to the CPU QB not running/scrambling that much, that most of the QB's in the demo are not really known for their running ability besides Pryor.

Yeah, that's why i kept playing OSU. I am happy to hear that they ran more against you. Even with my lower sample- that still would be better than last year which was one of the major reasons i stopped playing it.

I personally would have preferred a 8 minutes, 4th quarter only demo to a full game of 2 minutes each but i am sure EA has their reasons.

[Jesus]

Id love to be a game guru, but ive been away from EA football too long to be beating this game on Heisman so easily... ive only lost twice out of maybe 15 games.

I agree with most of the Pros people have said, so no use beating a dead horse. The game is improved and it really shows.


Cons:

1) A-Im not entirely impressed with the locomotion tech they've added. There is not enough chopping of the feet when slowing down, the spin move requires no slowing what so ever and considering most moves do, its damn near an exploit.
B- The quickness of players isnt being relayed properly at times, for example the players on the line dont explode off, they take off like Mack Trucks. Another example of this is when i was on the open field with the Buckeyes RB and wanted to do a quick cutback on the defender closing from a bad angle. Instead of chopping his feet then making a natural cut attempt, he slowed down and did a cut attempt i would expect from a TE

2)Collision detection is hit or miss, i have had teammates bounce off running back with no animation of any king triggered. Almost as if the running back had a shield.

3)I have no idea why the same backpack tackles are still going 3yrs strong

4) You can abuse the defenders momentum because you can pass it to a receiver at any time during their route, not according to their route ( no route based passing), making the passing game easy.

5) Defenders dont seem to handle change of speed well. Using it i have run back 5 kickoffs already.

6) Line play: No edge rush, no footwork, patty cake animations that should be move violent and frantic



This may seem like a negative post, but realize im a tough critic of EA and my complaint list of a demo is only 6 issues.

[MaizeHaze]

Do the nike pro combats automatically save to my system when I share the demo and play the games? I just turned the demo on and it no longer has that notification in the corner of the game option.

[gabs485]

Game is great but way too easy. Also too many big plays, specially CB getting burned too often.

[Bumble14]

Guys-

Just an update- spoke with Roy Harvey, Executive Producer of the game last night. The demo is an older build, with several glitches/bugs/exploits that have already been corrected in the final build. Look for an EA Blog to be posted in the near future that outlines these fixes.

Also, while not confirmed, it is believed that the version of the game I played in late April may have also been a newer version that what the demo was built on. Roy was going to look into this and let me know. To me, the version I played was light years better than the demo- and the demo is pretty darn good.

Feel free to ask any questions, and make sure to follow me on Twitter as we near the games release- review copy should be in my hand in a matter of weeks. Follow: Bumble14_OS