NCAA Football 11 Hands-On Preview

[Ziza9Noles94]

This made me smile. Great news.
"On the defensive side of the ball -- and as someone who plays exclusively as a lineman against the CPU -- I was extremely impressed with the line interaction. I was able to get heat on the opposing QB in realistic scenarios, and both power and finesse moves actually work this year, which should lead to far more potential sack opportunities and QB disruptions. It seems to finally be fun to be a lineman again."

[sinc79]

This sounds really good, but honestly when are we ever underwhelmed when reading about something we can't see? Never. Everything sounds better when described in words. Just think of all those people who are dissapointed with a movie after reading the book. Basically, I would like to see a live action shot of the gameplay. Then I will be excited. This just feels like a roller coaster.

[Critical Kills]

amen sinc79, that's a good way of putting it. let's see all this in an actual game and then we'll talk..

[GJEM]

The lack of bowl patches this year is a little off putting, by no way shape or form a game killer at all, but what I'm hoping for is the pre-game entrances and "what ever EA has up their sleeve" makes up for it. As long as some one earlier mentioned the bowl game stadiums and fields are true to life. Also it would be nice for Bowl games, both the small and the big games to have some atmosphere to them, let you know it's a special game.

But man after that write-up it sure is hard not to jump back on the EA hype train.

Hey Christian are you allowed to confirm if EVERY team and bowl stadium are actually in this years title, I mean it's been 4 years of next gen (this will be the 5th installment) I think it's been more than enough time to get every stadium in.

[TallyBoi7]

*crosses fingers*

I hope the 120 teams in the game are only FCS teams


Just kidding(kinda), but those sound like pretty awesome things. Can't wait to see what the finished product looks like.

[fsufan4423]

I say drop a video of game play to offset the first video, so we all can sleep at night.

[Critical Kills]

i second that emotion fsufan!

[pietasterp]

When I get my hands on the game, I'll make a judgement. Until then, I'm sorta through listening to what others say in the pre-release period. Not that I distrust them, but only through the retail release, hands-on man-hours of playtesting that you get from OS and from playing the game yourself do you get a feel for what the game is really all about.

I am glad that they finally acknowledged that the game just played too darn fast in the past...It was ridiculous. I think Madden's default game speed setting this year was perfect. And from an avowed anti-EA-ite like myself, that's pretty high praise!