NCAA Football 11 Blog: A New Game Plan

[Lava]

Check out the NCAA Football 11 blog with the Executive Producer of the game.

Quote:

"As a Michigan Wolverine fan, I want an NCAA Football that resembles the Saturday afternoon experience at the Big House. The sights, the sounds, and the traditions. (And of course, the return of a winning season. ;-) But it's not just about visual presentation. It's also making sure that my team - and all 120 FBS teams that we include in the game - look, feel, and play like my team. There are style variations across teams in the NFL but if you want to see true variety, it's all about College. We recognize that NCAA Football needs to more closely model and reflect those differences as part of gameplay. Innovation We've always had a history of innovation on the franchise. It was the first EA SPORTS game on Xbox Live back in 2004. In 2009 it was Online Dynasty, giving you the ability to compete with your friends across the country. Or last year's web-based team creator, TeamBuilder, where (amazingly) you guys have already created more than half-a-million custom teams! By the way, these teams will all work in NCAA Football 11 as well... Before I came onboard the NCAA franchise, I worked on a number of online games and technologies across EA SPORTS and also led the team that helped bring EA SPORTS games to Xbox Live and Sony PSN. Without giving too much away, you can probably guess that online will be a big component of some of the new areas we're exploring this year."

[drlw322]

that sounded like a humble guy trying to make things right. At the end he said keep the faith. For a guy to say that, it sounds like they might "try" to deliver a game close to what we wanted.

the tone sounded a lot like Ian did last year to bring madden hardcore back.

[Lava]

Quote: Originally Posted by drlw322

that sounded like a humble guy trying to make things right. At the end he said keep the faith. For a guy to say that, it sounds like they might "try" to deliver a game close to what we wanted. the tone sounded a lot like Ian did last year to bring madden hardcore back.

Agreed, and I think that's what he was shooting for. Hopefully we get a similar result the rest of the way to what Madden had last year.

[orangee]

That gave me goosebumps. Thanks Roy!

[Sting]

My favorite part: "For NCAA Football 11, we've gone back to the very heart of our football engine and made some major upgrades. Lots more to come on this topic; I promise the core improvements will be worth the wait."

now that's what I'm talkin about, that's good to hear. Fix the engine.


edit: that just gets better with every sentence. Who is this Roy guy? and where has he been all my next gen life? This sounds REALLY good. Not those same guys that have been telling us stuff for years; this guy sounds like he's coming in and revamping this series. Yezzir

[Sting]

Guys make sure you fill out that survey. It can only help.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AAFEA73XS/?src=[rhblog]

I like what I hear from this guy. He sounds like he knows what I want.

[Gossennator]

And e-mail sent..

[J-Unit40]

Looking Ahead
NCAA Football designers Ben Haumiller and Russ Kiniry have already covered a few of the minor updates in their recent blog. Things, frankly, we should have gotten to a while back... So please keep the faith, the "real" stuff we need to talk about for NCAA Football 11 is still up ahead!
Thanks and Stay Tuned!

HELL....YEAH!!! This is just what I wanted to hear about NCAA11.

I also love the fact that the in-game photo wasn't "-shopped". Love it.