NCAA Football 12 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Ohiohawk32]

Overall game play seems to be more authentic. People who say the players can cut on dimes are wrong, I have thrown drag passes where my receiver's momentum kept him running east to west for a little bit while he cut. I see lots of potential for bad game play in a lot of the new formations. With Oregon, I ran 5 Wide Quad, with 4 receivers bunched to one side of the field and through 5 straight 80+ passes to the X receiver who was uncovered. I hope EA looks at this because it is def. broken. ON HEISMAN

[Gosens6]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

i agree most people who dis Varsity level are usually people who never even loaded up a game with sliders on varsity level...they just go off of absumption that the game can only be effective on the highest level It's one of the reasons why i don't plan on posting any sliders in Madden or NCAA 12 because you always get a bunch macho clowns coming into the slider thread talking down on you as if a lower level makes you any less of a true SIM fan.

Ahh man I loved your sliders less year, I hope you don't abandon your fanbase; But I completely understand where you're coming from

[pmurray20]

i agree i would love for some sliders, to be posted up in the first week with the rosters.

[mrprice33]

Had some pretty fun times playing as everybody but FSU.

Some things I noticed...

The field texture looks really bad for some reason, especially in Texas. The Big 12 logo looks super down-rezzed. Hopefully this is an early build issue, but I doubt it. It does seem worse than the past few years though.

There are some weird issues with animations, especially on punters. The animations seem to stutter. Purely visual stuff though.

Dynamic lighting looks awesome. Second half @ Doak Campbell was played in the late day time, and it gave an overtime game a really cool look.

In terms of gameplay, the line play seems a lot better, at least results-wise. I was able to get pressure occasionally with 4, and I did better with 5 or more, as you should. One thing I noticed is that shifting and crashing your line to the same side is really effective.

I liked that the CPU QBs would look to run, and that they were often effective in doing so. Manuel from FSU torched me a couple of times with nice runs.

Zone coverage is really nicely implemented. Seeing the zones shift and move as players move through them is really nice. Pass trajectories are better, and LB super jumps seem to be toned down. The only issue I had is that there seemed to be a lot of drops, but maybe that was just Bama's WRs. I didn't notice it for the other teams.

Spread running with Oregon was fantastic. Counters, dives, read options, etc all work really well. I still haven't really been able to manufacture good gains when the QB keeps it on a read, but it's definitely better than last year.

That's all I got for now.

[Automatik]

I must unlucky because I've played 6 games and not one fumble by the QB.

[pmurray20]

do u guys auto sprint?? yes or no?? im not but if you guys like auto sprint, i was going to give it a shot

[pmurray20]

and the A button (tackle button) or do u just hit X or hit stick them

[fatleg3]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaredlib

Kinda confused why people are listing this as a positive. You shouldnt be able to return kicks easily

To me this makes the game more exciting. Yea i know it my not be super realistic or anything but think of how good you feel when you run a kick or punt back against your buddy or the cpu. It makes you want to get up an do a celbration dance. Also think of how mad you get when you get a kick or punt ran back against you lol.

SN: Demo is up on PSN. Just search NCAA. Its already at 19% in like 3 min