NCAA Football 13 News Post

NCAA Football 13 Features New Passing System, Enhanced Commentary and More

07:52 PM - March 12, 2012 by makinpropel

EA Sports has updated their NCAA Football 13 website with a few tidbits of information. Details are shown below, along with release dates, when more information and details will be available.

Playbook #1: Sights & Sounds (More details released on April 2nd)
Revel in the pageantry of college football game days with NCAA Football 13. Featuring new team run-outs, mascots and pre-game traditions along with significantly enhanced audio and new trophy presentations, NCAA Football 13 will deliver the passion and excitement of college football to fans across the nation.

Playbook #2: Gameplay (More details released on April 17th)
With a new passing system that changes the way quarterbacks and receivers play and respond, combined with a new read and react defensive AI system, NCAA Football 13 delivers greater realism on the virtual gridiron.

Playbook #3: Dynasty (More details released on May 7th)
Game days come to life with mid-game updates featuring a new studio analyst, plus enhanced commentary from NCAA Football veterans Kirk Herbstreit and Brad Nessler. Recruiting now goes deeper than ever with the addition of dynamic grades and the ability to scout players. Plus, there are even more ways to interact with your Dynasty from the web.

Playbook #4: Heisman Challenge (More details released on May 28th)
There are familiar faces on the field in NCAA Football 13, which now features a selection of former Heisman Trophy winners. With the new Heisman Challenge mode, fans have the ability to utilize the skill set of a legendary Heisman Trophy winner in a quest to match his award-winning historical performances and win the Heisman trophy once again.

Playbook #5: Road to Glory (More details released on June 11th)
The experience of being a college football superstar is now even more exciting with a new feature in Road to Glory that allows players to see and feel the game differently during key moments, increasing on-field awareness and creating amazing opportunities.

Game: NCAA Football 13Reader Score: 7/10 - Vote Now
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# 201 illwill10 @ 03/21/12 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Playmakers


	EA please listen to this guy.... There are a lot of hardcore NCAA fans who have become fed up with the half azzz approach to fix issues with the gameplay year after year. NCAA 13 despite all it's eye candy was a joke on the field when it came to gameplay. Year after year the Option attack by the CPU is broken, QB Scrambling logic broken and RB open field logic broken. Please for once focus on gameplay EA.............

Agree. It seems like last year was the "Year of the Glitches". Most of the sports games last year had glitches that mades parts/the entire game unplayable for a extended period of time.
The main thing I want for NCAA 13 is it to be playable from day 1. If I am waiting to play it after I bought it, I want it to be because I am waiting for a Roster. I know there will be some bugs that will slip through the cracks or cannot be fixed without pushing back launch date, but I dont want it to be a bug that makes me not want to play the game. There are bugs that I could overlook because it isnt a big deal. For example, in NBA 2k I am able to overlook record glitch because it isnt a big deal. But, the Draft glitch in MP and teammate AI makes it almost unplayable after year 3.

# 202 superxero27 @ 03/21/12 02:58 AM

I love college football and I played NCAA to death on my big ole Xbox and i even managed to enjoy 11 and somewhat 12 on this gen. I'll admit I'm not a real hardcore sim guy like some of you are, but the passing system is certainly the biggest flaw. Madden 12's passing and passing defense is a major improvement, psychic DBs and super LBs are almost nonexistent and the qb can actually throw OVER people (gasp!). Give us that system and continue to evolve and grow the existing features (for gods sake open up teambuilder) and 13 has the potential to be pretty good.

Oh and fix the facemask fit on the newer Revo Speed helmets. That's just sloppy

# 203 Draxion @ 03/21/12 03:10 AM

You know what I would like from NCAA, for the game to work properly.

Not even bugs or glitches, how about basic stuff like Dynasty being playable five-ten years down the road? Proper recruiting ratios (IE not having a million WR but almost no SS) How about running out of shotgun or option attack working? How about some semblance of real special teams play? How about a field that isn't tiny? How about a football that isn't oversized? How about a AI that doesn't cheat? How about throwing in penalties like pass interference, defensive holding, late hits, illegal man in motion, etc? How about plays that aren't cheesy and can be stopped if you call the right defense? How about some basic WR-DB interactions? How about use of momentum and weight? I could go on.

Fix these things, and the game could be good, heck legendary even. But they wont, because its not flashy and cant be put in the back of the box, and forever and ever we will keep running in circles till we get some damn competition in the football video game market.

Makes me mad.

# 204 myownsun @ 03/21/12 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mrMagic91


	^^^ This is why we'll never get a better game

I don't want to come off like d!ck but if ea brought the game to pc we would have a lot if not all of that in game just from the MOD community, the Beautiful, beautiful, MOD community.

# 205 Broncos86 @ 03/21/12 05:46 PM

I'm so tired of people pointing the finger at each other blaming ourselves for why we don't get a better game. Lets cut that out.

# 206 VonRye @ 03/21/12 06:31 PM

Hmmm... a pretty game that plays like crap or a less pretty game that plays realistic... tough call..

I skip all of the cut scenes before the game, during the game, and after the game. I really could care less. The only things that are important to me (and many others by the looks of it) are game play and team management (i.e., recruiting, depth charts, custom playbooks).

# 207 johnnyg713 @ 03/21/12 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by VonRye


	Hmmm... a pretty game that plays like crap or a less pretty game that plays realistic... tough call.. I skip all of the cut scenes before the game, during the game, and after the game. I really could care less. The only things that are important to me (and many others by the looks of it) are game play and team management (i.e., recruiting, depth charts, custom playbooks).

Being a member on the forums for years now, its funny how much peoples opinions have changed. I swear back when there was madden 09 and 10, the only thing you read on these forums were people complaining about presentation (myself included), now its mostly about gameplay (which I think should be the focus now).

Personally I think they need to just make the game fun and enjoyable to play. I've learned presentation is something EA struggles with (or maybe just doesn't really care to get it right). Add all the cut scenes you want, but for me they are very "disconnecting" from the experience. Other games have real-time presentation, and that is what EA should be trying to incorporate, however i don't think we will see that this gen.

# 208 MMurda @ 03/22/12 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by VonRye


	Hmmm... a pretty game that plays like crap or a less pretty game that plays realistic... tough call.. I skip all of the cut scenes before the game, during the game, and after the game. I really could care less. The only things that are important to me (and many others by the looks of it) are game play and team management (i.e., recruiting, depth charts, custom playbooks).

hell yea...gimme a game with less quality graphics and more quality and realistic gameplay any time. theres a reason i completed a season on madden 07 ps2 in 2011 when i have a 360 and a ps3 and had ncaa 11...GAMEPLAY and depth of franchise mode. graphics are fine at this point. we got good lighting and even dirt kicking up and 3d grass(somewhat). thats enough....gameplay and animation variety, bug fixes and better testing, and depth of modes, and commentary only from hear on out IMO.

# 209 Skyboxer @ 03/22/12 07:57 PM

Just made my way back into the ncaa forum and I see EA is finally going to work on the passing system.....
I'm paying a little attention now. Lets see how this turns out.

# 210 Skyboxer @ 03/22/12 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by JalenTigh


	This is exactly what EA is banking on ever year, consumers who will buy whatever piece of crap they serve up. I will not tell anyone not to buy the game... I just wish more people would wait. The only way EA will ever get the message is if they see their early numbers drop (pre orders, release day purchases). Heck... just waiting one day after release to buy it would send them a message.

Agree. Thats why buy used now for EA football.
Kills me when people post "i buy new so I'm supporting the developers" whenver some say they are buying used.
Some developers deserve that but EB has save me a good amount of $ over the past few years when buying EA sports games.

Its sad that a fews years ago i got really excited about football games and on a couple occasions drove close to 2 hrs to get early. Now i just wait a week or 2 and grab used.
Hopefully EA starts to get things turned around.

# 211 RM938 @ 03/22/12 08:28 PM

Only thing i'm excited for is the recruiting system. The way they worded the gameplay part seems like they just made some tweeks and called it a new name.

# 212 gator3guy @ 03/22/12 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by johnnyg713


	Being a member on the forums for years now, its funny how much peoples opinions have changed. I swear back when there was madden 09 and 10, the only thing you read on these forums were people complaining about presentation (myself included), now its mostly about gameplay (which I think should be the focus now). Personally I think they need to just make the game fun and enjoyable to play. I've learned presentation is something EA struggles with (or maybe just doesn't really care to get it right). Add all the cut scenes you want, but for me they are very "disconnecting" from the experience. Other games have real-time presentation, and that is what EA should be trying to incorporate, however i don't think we will see that this gen.

Absolutely. Give me a game that PLAYS well, is realistic, and fun. The bells and whistles are nice, but they aren't what keep me going back to a game. Gameplay brings me back. Back in the PS2 glory days, I would play NCAA from July to January and then again when the draft came around, and then again before the release of the new game. Not because the game looked good, but because it was fun and pretty realistic considering the circumstances. I haven't touched 12 since October and really have no urge to. I really just wish EA would just get back to the fundamentals of what made this series fun and what most of us got hooked on.

# 213 JMUfootball @ 03/23/12 12:15 AM

That press release really doesn't get me all too excited. When the first thing they reference is even more canned intros, it's clear they don't have their priorities straight. It's like they don't even realize their paradigm is all wrong. Effective presentations are not about excruciating detail at the canned level, they are about variable details at the dynamic level. THAT is what creates immersion.

Glad to see passing getting re-worked, but the lack of any mention about more realistic player movement is thoroughly disappointing. Will every player still have the same movement style, regardless of size or skill? That kind of stuff was already getting a little old in NHL '94...I mean seriously.

The recruiting scouting system is interesting, but it could go one of two ways. The first, it just adds an extra busy task to have to uncover some of the attributes that we now get automatically. There is no boom/bust potential. This would be pathetic, and I have a feeling that's what it will amount to. The second -- what I am hopeful for -- is that every prospect in the top 150 has some degree of hidden risk of bust, and outside the top 150 there is a hidden degree of potential. Scouting should essentially help find these hidden attributes...but naturally we shouldn't be able to get them all. We might finally see rare 2 stars becoming 80+ overall gems, and some 5 stars never cracking 70 overall.

But given Tiburon's poor game design talents, I'm wary of even being hopeful for 2013 being anything more than another patch for NCAA 2012.

# 214 prowler @ 03/23/12 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by mrMagic91


	^^^ This is why we'll never get a better game

The guy who wants Teambuilder updated is the problem? A feature that has barely been touched since NCAA10? Clearly EA isn't listening to him but I'm ever so curious to know why he's the problem.

# 215 Potatoes002 @ 03/23/12 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by prowler


	The guy who wants Teambuilder updated is the problem? A feature that has barely been touched since NCAA10? Clearly EA isn't listening to him but I'm ever so curious to know why he's the problem.

He's probably referring to the fact that nothing on his wish list addressed any gameplay issues.

# 216 Papa Bear/fsulw @ 03/23/12 05:26 PM

Get rid of the damn MASCOTS PLAYING FOOTBALL!!!!! Waste of space if you want to tell the truth.

# 217 ghettoqball @ 03/24/12 02:38 AM

I promised that I wouldn't buy this year's version after the disaster that was ncaa 12. I have to stick to that promise. I have to resist, no matter how good the game sounds this time around. Hopefully some of you guys who were disappointed last year can resist the hype this year. We KNOW it isn't going to live up to the hype, and it will have a ton of issues. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 5 times... god damnit EA

# 218 johnnyg713 @ 03/24/12 12:38 PM

For me, the passing system is whats going to be the factor in wether i buy or not this year. If they add right stick controls or something along those lines for the passing, then its a definite buy. People think they're overrated, but I'm all for right stick controls.

# 219 prowler @ 03/24/12 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Potatoes002


	He's probably referring to the fact that nothing on his wish list addressed any gameplay issues.

I agree that gameplay needs to be addressed, that message is loud and clear. You can't browse a thread on this site without someone mentioning the issues plaguing gameplay. But if EA isn't complying it's not because the focus is on upgrading Teambuilder, which really hasn't been touched in years.

# 220 BDawg35 @ 03/24/12 08:17 PM

More wording straight from a press release, as happens every year. None of this - ZILCH, ZERO, NADA - means a thing to me until this game gets in the hands of real gamers.

As always, I wait and see. I'm not cautiously optimistic ... I'm just cautious. This will be my 10th version of NCAA Football. I always get it because I only play sports games (and almost all football), but I always see the actual game falling short of the pre-release hype.

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