NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[olemiss86]

I'm impressed so far...but one thing I noticed. I'm a stadium guy and I noticed when I was playing Alabama/LSU: The LSU HD screen is no longer in their stadium. It is their old video screen from several years ago. Why did they take that out of LSU's stadium on this game?

[IUxHOOSIERS]

Quote: Originally Posted by bad_philanthropy

Certainly good to see the super LB's being truly gone. I like how passing feels. It's not a huge improvement but I can see it being decent fun. Looks like dirty unis are still not working very properly. White jerseys still look like they're fresh out of the wash at the end of the game.

I wouldn't say super LB's are completely gone. I was just playing as Bama vs LSU and I called four verticals from the Shotgun Trey Open formation. I know these are the best 2 teams on the game and they have great players all over their defenses, but when I saw the receiver in the slot open on his route, I threw a great pass that it looked out of reach from the LB only where the receiver could catch it. The LB picked got a magical burst and picked it.

I also saw numerous situations on those type of routes where the LB's would run stride for stride with the slot WR. I'm not saying it should never happen, but not MOST OF THE TIME.

Besides that really, I like the game so far. Yea it's a demo, but I still like what I see, considering all the hate we had yesterday.

[Saber]

Can't tell if I'm in the minority for sure, but I really dig the demo. My only real complaint is not being able to adjust the speed after I've been playing almost daily on NCAA 2012 with slow speed.

The new passing system is really fantastic though it may lead to me throwing a bit more to my tight ends and slot receivers who are covered by linebackers than I generally like to.

Defense seems amped up and in 3 games the CPU hasn't dropped an interception on me yet. They're a perfect 8 of 8.

Defensive Tackles are still getting through pretty regularly (though I have been holding the ball a little longer than I should as a result of the speed).

Have never used any of the teams on the demo before outside of Alabama on last year's, but am noticing a few new offensive plays scattered around the playbook that I hadn't seen before.

Love the new defensive formations - can never have enough of them.

Seems that the aggressive force fumble option has been tuned a little. Even though I can still force a ton of fumbles it leads to a crazy amount of missed tackles. I hardly ever missed tackles with it on NCAA 12.

Seem a few diving catches, but all have been in routes that I pressed the throw button too hard for. Now defensive players have been diving all over the field - including my defensive end intercepting a dropped screen pass.

I love the game breaks - while playing as Baylor vs. K-State the game break showed TCU thumping WVU and Rece mentioned that Baylor was hoping TCU could hold on.

I really like the flow of defense vs. offense - but I also did in last year's demo only to feel the game was slanted heavily in favor of the offense once the actual game dropped. All the problems we discussed before (super penetrating DT's, super jump LB's, over powered aggressive "force fumble" game plan, ect), seemed to be there to offset the offensive onslaught.

I think the player models look a LOT better, and I'm not noticing the "washing" of the colors that most people are seeing.

Offensive line play seems to be largely the same.

[LastExit]

Quote: Originally Posted by GriffinLaz95

all i know is that the studio updates will get in the way throught the game. i love the espn bottom line though!

I could see that - but maybe we'll be able to set the frequency of the updates in the game settings (frequent....normal....rare).

[DJACK]

Is it just me or after a big play does it seem to go to a studio update rather than show a replay of the big play? Just something annoying I noticed. I would much rather they only do studio updates after insignificant plays. Wonder if that can be tuned before release.

[Aznkenny2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by CHIEFxxROCKEM

You have to search for it using bing

I search for NCAA 13 using bing and I still can't download it

[Aznkenny2001]

I can't find NCAA football 13 I searched for it and still can't download it?

[J-Unit40]

Quote: Originally Posted by Aznkenny2001

I search for NCAA 13 using bing and I still can't download it

Type in NCAA Football 13. Not just NCAA 13. Hopefully that helps you out.