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NCAA 10 Demo - Getting Ready

Posted on June 17, 2009 at 09:24 AM.

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I haven�t played much NCAA 09 at all this year. I�ve been playing other games like Uncharted (a second time), NBA Live 09 (since traded), MLB the Show, and now inFamous. But to get ready for the demo this week, I popped back in NCAA 09 and played a game with Oklahoma vs. Florida.

It was a really good game. I lost 28-24 as Murray lost his second crucial fumble in the ball game with less than two minutes left as I was leading 24-21. Tebow converted a 4th and short on my 35-yard line into a play action TD pass. He completed 51% of his passes on the day for 326 yards, 4 TDs and 2 INTs. Only 10 yards rushing though on 11 carries. One of his picks was returned for a TD and I also got a kickoff return for a TD to start the second half. My passing skills were rusty early and losing Iglesias to an injury at the end of the second quarter didn�t help.

Despite the �wide-open gameplay� people complain about, my sliders and skill set actually didn�t see too much of this. No deep balls by either side and Florida punted 6 times in the game. I only punted 4 times but when you turn the ball over 6 times you don�t tend to punt too often. Bradford was actually 30 for 45 for me but no TD passes. Both running games didn�t do too much. The game was close throughout and ended up being a great game with a greatness score of 1215 (#3 all time for me).

The lack of the deep ball in the game was the greatest glaring error along with no QB scrambles by Tebow (looks to be an issue in the NCAA 10 videos still). Of course the pass rush wasn�t too bad with slider tweaks unlike the demo I�m about to play Thursday night. We�ll see how the two games stack up but with only 2-minute quarters (I play with 7) and no sliders, I don�t expect to have a great experience. I love playing with sliders and so not getting them will dampen that a bit. Still, I'm hoping to see some nice improvements.

Comments

# 1 rockchisler @ Jun 17

The Demo is being released this week? I must be living under a rock.

# 2 rudyjuly2 @ Jun 17

The demo is out this week. Florida vs. OU, 2 minute quarters. We can't change sliders but we can change the difficulty level.

I'm going to try and get a game in as Florida against OU tonight but I suck running the spread.

# 3 marcoyk @ Jun 17

I think this demo may decide if I buy this game or not. A few months ago there was not question in my mind about whether I'd buy this game or not. I was sure that I'd be buying it. But with all of the information I've been finding out about NCAA 10, I really don't know. I hope the demo is good because I want to be playing a college football game this year.

# 4 GoToledo @ Jun 17

Yea the demo will decide weather NCAA 10 is a purchase for me as well. I honestly can't believe I am questioning this, as I have bought every NCAA game since the mid 90s on the original Playstation. None of their new "features" interest me in the least, so they will have to win me over with gameplay.

# 5 rudyjuly2 @ Jun 17

The demo is important for me as well. I'm probably still in the buy day one camp unless I find out the sliders are as bad as last year. If that's the case then this game won't be a day one purchase and I'll wait until it's on sale or just get Madden. Customization is key for me and if I can't fix what I think is wrong (like no pass rush) then I won't buy it at full price.

# 6 rudyjuly2 @ Jun 18

I beat OU 39-25 tonight after being down 17-9 at the half. A fun game but my night was ruined after realizing the pass rush and sliders in NCAA 10 are completely broken. I just can't justify buying NCAA 10 without that stuff being patched. I'll check out the demo tomorrow but I'm extremely bummed tonight and am pissed off with the EA dev team. They don't listen.

# 7 shoked @ Jun 18

It was out this morning by 9 AM Central Time.

# 8 cepwin @ Jun 19

One question I have with the demo is when was it built?? It may not be a reflection of the final game. Given all the glitches people are talking about (I haven't tried the sliders but I did run into the bad snap issue) hopefully these issues are either already fixed or will be fixed when the game goes gold (and if it hasn't gone gold yet it's about to.) I also feel I'm not a fair judge as I'm not a very good football game player and too inexperienced to have delved into the all the settings.