NCAA Football 11 Demo Available Now! Share Your Impressions

[morsdraconis]

One thing that's REALLY been a pleasure for me is how when you bullet the pass it's not a bullet. It's a normally thrown quick pass where it has some zip but isn't on a line. It has some arc. That shit drove me CRAZY in previous versions (not just '10).

Just won my first Heisman difficult game as Texas 10-7 on a last second field goal. Starting to get a bit worried about the viability of the defense in this game. On the one hand, spreading someone out forces them to basically play man, giving you easy crossing routes and such or play zone and making it HORRIBLY apparent to everyone that you are playing zone but, on the other hand, it seems like zone defense is crippled now. Defenders definitely do not seem as aggressive with following a receiver when they enter their zone area. That's going to be serious problems if it's not different in the final version of the game.

There are definitely some changes to the defensive playbooks. Mainly seems to be addition zone blitz setups.

REALLY REALLY liking how the offensively lineman will occasionally bite on a defensive player rushing up field and then dropping into coverage. Had a truly realistic looking sack from a play where the RE dropped back into coverage and the OT hesitated for just a second which allowed the blitzing LB to get around him and get the sack. Tried it again later and it didn't work so it's definitely not an every time thing.

Had another REALLY realistic looking sack happen on a blitz with the 3-2-6 Dime formation against a 4 or 5 WR set (can't remember which off the top of my head). It's the Cover 2 Man play where the O-line has the LE crash inside and the MLB blitzing behind him. RT followed the crashing DE as the RG double teamed the crashing DE, resulting in the MLB coming free. Need to test it more to make sure there isn't a nano blitz hiding there or something but I'm pretty sure what I did was spread out the line and then spread out the LBs.

Overall, I'm very happy with the line blocking but the CPU is retarded good at running the ball on Heisman. The HB makes CRAZY good reads and it's quite hard to stop them once they get going (or, at least, that's been my feeling about it).