Demo for March Madness 08 now available

by pastapadre
Posted November 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

March Madness 08 demo

The Xbox 360 Live Marketplace now has the demo for March Madness 08 available for download. As of yet I have not been able to verify whether the PS3 has received it as well.

The demo features Kentucky @ Louisville in a five minute half and comes in at 927.82 MB. You can choose from Broadcast, Classic, Overhead, Sideline, Sky Box, and Floor camera angles. The difficulty level is locked on Varsity.

I will post up a few videos and some impressions of the demo over the coming days. Initially I’ve come to find many things I really like about it but those are overshadowed by how frustratingly slow the game plays. I’ll have to see if that feeling continues as I get more time in with it.

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Playmakers

I think i have an idea of what they were trying to do this year. Someone pointed out Live 08 was run and gun and people complained about that style. Last years March Madness was too fast and the game had to slowed down by sliders. The passing was too fast and now this year from reading the feedback it’s been slowed down.

I can’t say for sure until I play the game but it appears all the speed problems should be something really easy to fix with sliders. This year the game speed slider might actually have to be increased now.

As for the animations from past experience with EA games they animate better on a slower speed, but who’s maybe the game will have the opposite effect this year since I’ve read the animations are too slow. I can’t imagine this game couldn’t be more playable than MM 07. I thought that game was better after you tweaked it and hopefully EA didn’t take a step back which would be a serious let down for me personally sinec they finally added somethings in the game I’m truly looking forward to this year.
Playmakers

I think i have an idea of what they were trying to do this year. Someone pointed out Live 08 was run and gun and people complained about that style. Last years March Madness was too fast and the game had to slowed down by sliders. The passing was too fast and now this year from reading the feedback it’s been slowed down.

I can’t say for sure until I play the game but it appears all the speed problems should be something really easy to fix with sliders. This year the game speed slider might actually have to be increased now.

As for the animations from past experience with EA games they animate better on a slower speed, but who’s maybe the game will have the opposite effect this year since I’ve read the animations are too slow. I can’t imagine this game couldn’t be more playable than MM 07. I thought that game was better after you tweaked it and hopefully EA didn’t take a step back which would be a serious let down for me personally sinec they finally added somethings in the game I’m truly looking forward to this year.