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

[cparrish]

I just played my second game, this time as Oregon versus Texas on All-American difficulty, and I still found myself sacking their QB almost every time they dropped back to pass, and getting sacked a lot while dropping back to pass. I did see a couple things I did like though.

- I like the new zone awarness by the defense. I found myself actually calling zone defenses and being productive, as opposed to calling man coverage 99% of the time in NCAA 11.

- I really like how the new tackling system looks. It looks WAY MORE realistic, and actually plays out really well.

- On Texas's only score; I beat them 39-7, their player, #2, picked me off, made a nice spin when I went to tackle him, and somehow kept is footing as he was about to fall and housed it on me for a pick six. It was one of the coolest animations I have seen in any NCAA football game!!!

Overall, with some fine tuning and some use of the sliders, I can see myself really enjoying NCAA 12 this year.

[UMhester04]

Quote: Originally Posted by bruinkid626

Thumbs up for the improvements to punt returning. I'm playing all american and I'm able to get at least 5~10 yards per punt because my guys are actually blocking for me. It also looks like punts can be blocked this along with field goals though I haven't seen one yet.

They do block better, however I do believe that the coverage teams need to stay in their lanes to get more accurate returns. Right now they just run in the middle of the field in a big blob.

[Broncos86]

Quote: Originally Posted by xtremedunkz

I hate to say it but getting rid of suction tackles has brought back a problem from last gen that bothered me greatly, rubbing. So many timers in this demo I will go to tackle the ball carrier and rub up agasint them for 5 yards before the tackle begins, and sometimes it doesn't tackle at all. I knwo I am touching them because my controller vibrates the whole time, hopefully this gets fixed.

Tackle button?

[Chief_Macho]

Played the ps3 version. Worst looking game I've seen. It looks like a ps2 game. I can only imagine it is not actual graphics they will ship. Underwhelmed by this game again. Better than last years though. I just wonder why I waste my time playing this inferior series. Probably just love football games.

[michigan216]

Just took a kickoff to the house with K. Barner!!

[Balrog]

I noticed that their will be a lot more sacks. I think in the game total their was about 6 of them. Oregon vs Texas. That is just in 8 minutes.

[michigan216]

1 second left....17-17.......I go with Hail Mary Trips.......Thomas absolutely bombs it and Tuinei beats them deep......TOUCHDOWN!!!

[bkrich83]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chief_Macho

Played the ps3 version. Worst looking game I've seen. It looks like a ps2 game. I can only imagine it is not actual graphics they will ship. Underwhelmed by this game again. Better than last years though. I just wonder why I waste my time playing this inferior series. Probably just love football games.

Your PS2 must have been a lot more powerful than mine.