NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[afbrother]

• The Gameplay is just stale. With NCAA this year, they fixed just about all of the major grievances I had with this game. But it still feels the same, and even looks the same for the most part. At least we know this is the last year of this kind of gameplay, for better or worse, I'm glad this is the last year the game will play like this. All in all, I'm leaning towards re-pre-ordering this. For once, it feels enough like college football that I just may be able to enjoy a dynasty.

Enough said. EA marketing and man's hunger for the only college football game out there trumps common sense yet again. What would encourage me to do better as a company if I had customers like this..................

[ABR173rd]

Just got done on the PS3 Demo.

Overall it seems like an extremely polished version of NCAA11. The presentation was nice but definitely didn't WOW me. If you like NCAA and temper your expectations I feel it's still worth a pre-order.

One of the things that did stand out was the actual game play. The handling of players on both sides seems a lot smoother and you don't get locked into animations as in NCAA12. The catching on both sides of the ball was extremely smooth and the head tracking was a nice touch.

The goal line Fade passes looked and worked extremely realistic and smooth. Before it was pretty easy to execute a goal line fade but the animations in general seemed too pre-established. The replay now shows both my receiver and CB leaping up in the direction of the pass with my receiver getting a little higher and grabbing the ball away- very smooth. My second goal line fade was intercepted.

I had a quick slant I threw to a WR where the CB was on top of him step for step but was looking at my WR and not the corner. When the pass arrived my WR lept up and grabbed it behind the CB's head and then tried to turn up field for more yardage-Very nice!

I also had a play where the WR was on a comeback route running back towards the pass and I was a step behind him as the CB. It appeared the pass would be a completion but I hit the triangle button anyway and my CB dived forward and swatted the ball down. The biggest thing that is standing out is the smoothness of animations, every thing feels smooth. I cannot stress enough the WR and CB animations, it's not perfect but you can definitely feel and SEE a big difference.

The last thing that stood out was the passing. You can truly lead WR's now however if your leading him a direction that's not part of his route and he's not looking your going to have to manually take control of him or else the pass will be incomplete. I didn't notice it so much on the high arcing touch passes but more so leading guys left or right and on curl routes-pulling the stick down and having the WR actually run back towards the ball instead of trying to pick it up down by his feet.

[txprivates]

ESPN Bottom Line doesn't show up on mine, either. 360. Have a widescreen and changed the resolution.

[feeq14]

Quote: Originally Posted by Catamount53

Quick Observations Lighting in the LSU-Bama Game is awful Game is much more fluid You can actually run players over now Blocking needs to get better (Too much stalemating) Commentary is basically the same Intro is still pretty awkward I'm Tired of the ultra zoomed in replays They need to get rid of that awful defense chant/crowd needs to be louder on defense New passing trajectories are nice Game plays a little faster Motion Blur is overdone on cutscenes and replays Too many interceptions. as in QB's throwing to well covered recievers. New catch animations are great. One other thing, when the CPU receiver is running a drag route and I am rushing the passer with the DL. When I try to switch players, sometimes I am switched to the CB in man coverage of course taking him out of the play and leaving the WR uncovered. Pretty annoying. Also, curl route on 3rd down is money. Sometimes a little too easy. DB's should be protecting the first down line in that situation. Obviously I have my complaints, but the game is definitely better than '12.

I actually think the stalemating is a vast improvement. In 12 we saw far too many situations where guys were ending up on the ground and plays where getting blown up or broken way too often. Stalemates and jostling are much more realistic in my opinion.

One thing i noticed that i didnt like= On a deep pass the db was clearly beat but he was looking for the ball, he should have been in an all out sprint to catch up to the receiver and make a tackle instead of looking back for a ball that was clearly over his head.

[TheGuyBrian]

Jeez people. No wonder EA has no idea what to do with their game.

NCAA 11 : "GOAT ! Greatest football game ever ! OMG ! Better passing, get rid of psychic DB and super LB and this becomes the greatest game ever!"

NCAA 13 : Got rid of the aforementioned flaws. "This game's garbage."

Seriously people. You should know what you want in a game before complaining about everything just because EA makes the game. Honestly, it's gotten to the point where you're complaining about the cleats being the wrong color or the ball being too big (which you don't notice unless you go to replay and look for it, to be honest). Regardless of how good the game is, gameplay or presentation, you people will find someway to complain cause it's an EA game

[TheLeviticalLawKid3]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheGuyBrian

Jeez people. No wonder EA has no idea what to do with their game. NCAA 11 : "GOAT ! Greatest football game ever ! OMG ! Better passing, get rid of psychic DB and super LB and this becomes the greatest game ever!" NCAA 13 : Got rid of the aforementioned flaws. "This game's garbage." Seriously people. You should know what you want in a game before complaining about everything just because EA makes the game. Honestly, it's gotten to the point where you're complaining about the cleats being the wrong color or the ball being too big (which you don't notice unless you go to replay and look for it, to be honest). Regardless of how good the game is, gameplay or presentation, you people will find someway to complain cause it's an EA game

You must be new around here...

[DNMHIII]

Downloaded both 360 and PS3 and the graphics on the PS3 are horrible. Last year the PS3 version had really bad jaggies and its the same thing this year. I don't understand how EA feels comfortable with butchering the graphics on the PS3.

The gameplay does seem much smoother though.

[TheGuyBrian]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheLeviticalLawKid3

You must be new around here...

I've been looking at the forum for about 2 years. Just now registered to post that, basically. If it's not one thing, it's another with people. People got mad because they added things like coaching carousel and didn't fix gameplay, but got mad this year because they fixed gameplay and not enough on dynasty and road to glory, even though they fixed recruiting.