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

[ezio]

At one point I said I might cancel my pre-order but the more I play it the more it grows on mw so I will probably end up getting it. I just hope you can slow down the game speed in the retail version as it is a little too fast IMO.

[Lavar]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lavar

Did the same thing again in a third game as Texas vs Oregon and it finished 0-0 didn't play OT as i thought it pointless. So in 3 games or 24 minutes Oregon only scored 10 pts against me calling the same play for all 3 games. Explain this to me EA ?

Thought I'd try my method again of punting on 1st down and just calling the defensive plays, controlling no player.
This time instead of calling 2 man under I went for cover 3 no matter what formation i was in or Oregon.

First game was 11-0 to me Texas, 2 safety's because Oregon's QB thought he had all day to throw while standing in the endzone.

Second game was 16-10 to Texas(me).
Even just calling cover 3 all game I blew up their option runs. Seemed to think he had all day to pass and got sacked a lot.
QB only scrambled once in each 4 games apart from the last when he did it 4 times which shocked and impressed me.

So in both these games I outscored Oregon 26-10 by just calling defensive plays. In all 5 games played I've outscored Oregon 43-20 in 40 minutes of action.

How can this be ?

I would really like someone else to try this as it means being a defensive coordinator will be easy picking one play all game.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Some more thoughts........

Fast defense owns all. All the blitzes work really well this year, even the looping and crossing blitzes. Wreaked havoc Alabama QB last night with 6 sacks.

And is it just me or is it the more you sack or knock down the QB, the quicker he starts to scramble ?

It sure seemed that way with Alabama QB after the 3rd sack. He started to roll out a hell of a lot more in full sprints some times forcing the ball.

Had some really good looking sacks on looping blitzes. Funny thing about it is this year, you don't have to control the guy at all, the cpu does a very good job on their own sacking the QB on blitzes.

So I don't know why peope said Alabama was a beast on heisman level. I always manage to shut their offense completely down by blitzing. Same thing with Oregon offense.

Playing as a defensive coordinator going to be a blast to play. I'm going to lead the nation in defense and sacks.

[ACardAttack]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmakers

Might be a result of the game time do to shorter qtr's in the demo it probably screws up the AI time managment They are probably calling timeouts in the demo the way they would under 2:00 minutes in a full game not making an excuse because the time management has always been bad but i think the DEMO makes it worse at times for the CPU

I think it makes it good, if it worked like i think it worked...Oregon or Bama, cant remember who called a time out after they stopped me on 3rd down with just a few seconds to go in the third quarter which meant there was only 2 minutes and a few seconds left in the game...the way I read it was that the computer called a time out because there was just over 2 minutes left in the game despite only being in the 3rd quarter

[xBaBaBooeyx]

After one game I'm satisfied with some of the improvements from last year. Game looks and plays better than ever. My only annoyance was the scroll on the play call screen that screwed me up numerous times.

For those that complain and bash the game, there's always room for improvement but the game will never be 100% realistic cuz it's a VIDEO game. IMO they are getting about as close as you can get to realistic football with a video game. There will always be some imperfections and features that get left out of the game, but I'm psyched for the full version.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by ezio

At one point I said I might cancel my pre-order but the more I play it the more it grows on mw so I will probably end up getting it. I just hope you can slow down the game speed in the retail version as it is a little too fast IMO.

You should be able to do that. I agree that the speed of the Demo is a little fast for my taste.

[thesnowman8]

I am loving the blocking by the offensive line. I played with alabama last night and they knocked out one guy and then would go find someone else. Thought that was great!

[Arkavian]

So far everything in the demo looks great. The only thing I do not like is the play call screen. For the second year and a row, they've changed how one selects the plays.

If there was one thing that did not need to be changed from 2010 and previous versions, it was play call selection.

I got used to 2011's play call screen and they changed it again this year. I'm still swapping formations by accident and it is still taking me a long time to get used to it. So far that is my only gripe.