Bingo.Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Bingo.
This game sucks, there's no rastas. Don't buy, 0/10.
Yeah my zone defense with a D rated team was working okayYeah and you didn't seem to have many issues with zone defense last night
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+1
Heisman mode- Jim Plunkett-1st game
on All-American setting
24 for 37, 424 yrds,4TD's, 2 ints.
sacked 3 times
sure it was easy but at least that was a tad more realistic LOL
i know everyone was harping on this like 4 days ago, but arkansas state pulled off the upset over oregon in my offline dynasty too....37-14 at oregon.
Playing 7m quarters on Heisman has been pretty good so far.
Well, after an amazon complete debacle, I finally got the game a day late only to find out everything that I had done on the early release was a complete waste. For whatever reason the game does not recognize the early release saves. 2 dynasties, rosters, saved videos, nothing.
If anyone has a workaround to get the game to see it, please reply. I can see it when I back out to look at it on the harddrive, but when the game starts and I go to load/delete it is not there, and I can't pull it up anywhere in the game what so ever.
edit: It did recognize that I had played the game, I got the achievements that I earned.
the cutscenes take forever to skip over. how many times do i have to mash theto skip over em?
That was intentional this year, if I remember correctly. A bunch of us were mashing thethe cutscenes take forever to skip over. how many times do i have to mash the
i know it was intentional, but it takes way too damn long to skip over em. i dont care about the cutscenes; and if there was an option to turn em off, i'd do it. i know i'm in the minority when i say that, but the same applies to gametrack too, imo.That was intentional this year, if I remember correctly. A bunch of us were mashing the
rather than having a forced 2 second delay before you can skip over it, they should just do a button recognition of holding down the
waiting for a play now game against just the AI offline seems to take a little longer then in 12 too?
Wow, what do u have ADHD---chill out--a whole 2 seconds lol
I’ve played two games of NCAA 13 which isn’t enough for a full review of course but my initial feeling is that the game is average. I didn’t see a lot of crap but I don’t see any excellence to this game that wants to me to keep playing other than I want to get my monies worth after renting.
Presentation and Atmosphere
This just isn’t good enough imo. The commentary is so stale now it’s white noise. I can’t even tell you if I heard any new or interesting things because Herbie is so boring after this many years you just tune him out. I know one time my TE dropped a wide open pass down the middle and he commented that there was a defender in the area when there was nobody. I do know they don’t comment on players getting injured and many times I don’t know I lost a player until I see the injury report on the ticker. Very few stat overlays (two in two games, 7 minute quarters) and they aren’t commented on at all. I saw only one game track and accidentally skipped it. Not sure how that happened. We desperately need a new commentary team just to change it up.
The crowd is mediocre. It helps to turn the other volumes down and crank the crowd up. Sometimes there is an audio glitch in the sound as well where you can tell the sounds aren’t spliced together correctly. The pre-game introductions are very stale and I already skipped over them for game two. The entire design needs to move towards a TV style broadcast with more team and individual stats. I really enjoyed Madden 12’s TV style focus and I think NCAA needs to commit more to this approach. One negative note for freezing, my game froze right after the end of the second game so that’s another concern.
Passing Game
I think this is the biggest improvement in the game. I hated the super LBs and super zones of NCAA 12. The new pass trajectories really help let you put the ball where you want to. I didn’t see a single crazy swat in two games by a super leaping LB. I used the lead passing a couple times and it was nice. I have seen the issue with the safeties leaving WRs running free down the middle of the field. I burned the defence twice for TDs on this. I tried not to take advantage of this stuff but its hard not to over the course of a game. This needs to be fixed.
The cpu calls a lot of screens and this needs to be toned down a little and also made more effective. On Heisman I did see them run this successfully a few times but the majority of time it’s a sack. I saw Alabama run an option play in the last minute of a game in hurry up. Why? Also saw them run a fake punt on 4th and 20 early in the 4th quarter (they were down 1 or 2 TDs, can’t remember). That was so long it would have been nearly impossible to convert and they didn’t.
Running Game
My first game was with Michigan at home against OSU. I got over 100 yards rushing with Denard using the read-option and I thought it was nicely done. I did have a long TD run where a defender was just stuck in a back pedal motion and didn’t even try to tackle me. That wasn’t good as it should have been an average gain and not a 40 yard TD run. I didn’t see the cpu run it too often with Braxton Miller and when they did it wasn’t that great. Miller did scramble quite a bit so I liked that. I didn’t see many broken blocking assignments but those happen all the time in real life and it’s not something I look for. Nothing in two games bothered me here.
I think the tackling engine is old and stale. Not only does NCAA 13 not have the Infinity engine but the variety here is weak and significantly worse than Madden 12’s tackling engine imo. Warp tackling is in full force. Hit the tackle button and your defender will leap forward a couple yards for the wrap tackle.
Player movement still lacks momentum and the animations seem twitchy and unnatural and this was while playing on Slow speed. It doesn’t look or feel right imo. I do like how the r-stick juke is better this year. Made a nice move with Denard using it although it looks a little goofy. I'll still take it over last year's neutered move. Why the heck does Georgia have so many option plays in their playbook? Now I realize why I saw cpu Georgia running so many options with Aaron Murray in some pre-release videos.
Difficulty
I started right out on Heisman difficulty (I’m not that good, trust me) after reading people say it was the way to go. I tweaked my old NCAA 12 slider set based on some things I read and beat OSU 38-7 with Michigan. I took Georgia into Bama and the game was tied 7-7 going into the 4th and I broke it open with three TDs to win 28-7. The game is definitely easier than it was in the past. I saw nothing cheap on Heisman and quite honestly, this is probably what All-American should be (unless they create a difficulty between AA and Heisman like I think they should).
Overall
I used to consider NCAA 11 to be the best game of this series but this is probably the best. However, I also consider the NCAA series to be largely disappointing this generation. NCAA 13 is an improvement but it doesn’t wow me. It still has a long way to go to be considered a great game like the Show. Improvement is needed in almost every area. Most of all they need to change something so that the game actually feels fresh and different. That includes player movement, animations and presentation. You will get the same feeling while playing the game you did in the past (good or bad). The strength of the game has always been the ability of dynasty mode to suck you in and overlook some of the average game play while you recruit and build your dynasty. I don’t see this year as much different.
Great write up Rudy.
I think you hit the nail right on the head Rudy. The game playable and can be enjoyable, but there is so much more it could be.
overall this game satisfies. im okay with gameplay. my zone defense works and the cpu picked me off 5 times last night... it was FCS northwest. on heisman difficulty. im not all that good but it was ridiculous. needed improvements:
1. Pre-game- i like Rece Davis. but he has about 2 or 3 intros for every stadium so after 5 home games its sounding very repetitive. i usually skip right through the entrances. they are so bland and boring. its a good idea but can be done so much better. please EA get me hyped up to play this game.
2. i love what they did with dynasty. i can see how my school stacks up the next 4 years, and how i can improve my recruiting pitches. all that is great and scouting is cool but i wish i could scout exactly what i wanted to know. id like to see the randomness out of that.
3. COMMENTARY.
i dont hear erin andrews at all! why is she even in the game if she doesnt talk to me??? i like gametrack. i like how i cant accidentally skip over it. but if i want to play as an OC i cant see that cool cutscene. which is sad for me because i suck at defense. i miss the days of lee corso pregame 2004.
biggest wish is college gameday and college football final. a show before the week starts and after the week is over. i think its do-able. if nfl 2k could do it on my ps2 i think it can be done now on next gen consoles
thats really all i have for now. im a big presentation guy. the gameplay is good. of course it could be better but i am satisfied i give the game 8.5/10
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