NCAA Football 13 Demo Is Out, Post Your Impressions Here

[micksharp]

I've probably played 10 games so far and I am sold. I think it plays pretty smooth.

I have both systems both hooked up hdmi on a 55"Sony Bravia and I can certainly say the Xbox graphics are better. I'm not saying if all I had was a PS3 I wouldn't buy it. I'm just saying if you have both you may wanna go XBox. The gameplay felt identical on the two systems though.

Pros, new catch animations, play action is usable, screens work great, 4 verts isn't a guaranteed completion, passing trajectories are much better, the crowd (even though I think they should have went even bigger) reacts better, anyone who says the graphics are no better is just plain wrong (after reading some of these comments I popped in 12 to check a side by side and although not huge 13 is certainly better), the players move more realistic and last but not least the score ticker at the bottom is just awesome

Cons, can't adjust difficulty, choppy especially the ps3 version (loading), return game still felt unrealistic, although better the CPU still sucks a little at running the option (hopefully its only on varsity), CPU qb decision making was no good (hopefully difficulty will help that), still not one PI call in all my games

I would say my biggest con is that EA keeps spending resources on dumb game modes that no one plays. I will never even try Heisman Challenge. It along with the mascot game, the dumb bring your player up from high school thing and all the other side stuff just isn't fun. I guess that has nothing to do with the demo. That was just something I wanted to say.

[thevaliantx]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pezell04x

I'm not invalidating anyone's opinion, I'm asking a question. If you played 12 back in December and had enough, the game play isn't fresh. If the game play isn't fresh in your mind then yeah, 13 is going to seem like 12 because the last time you played collegiate football was around Christmas. Its the same with people saying "oh it looks just like 12". Well yeah, most yearly releases do. NHL 12 looks like 11. Halo Reach looks like Halo 3. FIFA 12 looks like 11, etc. Obviously a company isn't going to go all out to change their models unless they completely overhaul the game which we all knew EA wasn't going to do with NCAA. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

There is a difference between asking a question becauase your sincerely don't understand something, and asking a question because you are trying to discredit someone else's opinion. I've played the demo, it's more of the same (as in same problems). It *may* be worthy of a purchase when its price has hit rock bottom, but it's EA as usual. I'm sure you've read the impressions here.

[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by FedEx227

I think from my perspective I'm not asking for new models or anything but literally everything but the ESPN Bottom Line and Studio Updates is pretty similar. Play call screen is same, commentary is the same, audio is the same. Yearly games are of course going to have their similarities but they shouldn't be near carbon copies. Game play is definitely improved but I can't help but still feel like I just picked up NCAA 12 again from a presentation standpoint.

NHL 11 is nearly identical in all in-game aspects to NHL 12 and NHL is one of the best sports games out there. In all honesty, if you showed me both games playing at the same time on tvs side by side, I wouldn't be able to pick one out. I'm sure NHL 13 will look exactly the same as well and many people don't have a problem with it.

Seems like some NCAA video game fans want complete change to nearly everything every year and that's one of the reasons we get the "It's just NCAA 12.5" comments all the time. Football games have have had nearly the same playcalling screens since Tecmo Bowl in the 80's. Why change something that works?

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Sounds like NCAA 09 is right up your alley

Ah, the days of Wide Open Gameplay.

Also, I found the juke more effective in this game than it has been in the past.

[TDenverFan]

Wait, if NCAA 11 was 10.5, NCAA 12 was 11.5, and 13 is 12.5, aren't we really just on 10.7?

[JHusker13]

Quote: Originally Posted by blamalex

Does anyone on here understand proper grammar? Geez, people, no wonder EA doesn't listen to what we say....we can't even put an argument together that actually makes sense the first time you read it. On the other hand...I sure hope Teambuilder isn't a bust again this year. I can live with the gameplay (I'm use to it), I just want my created team to look as cool and realistic as every other school on the game.

*Jeez

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[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDenverFan

Wait, if NCAA 11 was 10.5, NCAA 12 was 11.5, and 13 is 12.5, aren't we really just on 10.7?

We're actually on NCAA '98.15

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDenverFan

Wait, if NCAA 11 was 10.5, NCAA 12 was 11.5, and 13 is 12.5, aren't we really just on 10.7?

NCAA 11 was a big improvement on NCAA 10. NCAA 12 was a step back from NCAA 11. NCAA 13 is a slight upgrade from NCAA 12.

If you're satisfied that THIS is what they were able to accomplishment within a development cycle then its time for a new team because other games improve much more in a year and this game has so many issues that still don't seem to get touched.