Comments on: NCAA Football 09 news coming this week

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:25:44 +0000

The players look very shiny, but that might change by the time it is released.

Glad to see the same old terrible one-handed catch animation is still in the game. I love that.

Really, I think it looks a lot like Madden 08 at this point, with some better player models.

Yay for dumbing down recruiting. Good idea to take the funnest part of the game and make it simple again.

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:50:14 +0000

[quote comment="16612"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=NfHghkguMFI[/quote]

Good find.

However, though the game is still a “work in progress”, for me this video is alarming. Some of the animations still look stiff (QB dropping back specifically) and the animations still look so lazily strung together.

EA was touting the “branching animations” last year for Madden but I feel that’s what destroys the gameplay. Since some of the animations branch together so poorly, we often get that ragdoll effect when tackling.

I don’t know if EA will ever get the collisions and tackling as smooth as it was in NFL2K5.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:42:08 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NfHghkguMFI

By: Vikingsfanatic

Vikingsfanatic — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:55:33 +0000

The gameplay looks a whole lot better in this video. The pace of the game seems faster and the player models look ok. I saw the sec logo in the middle of the field in what appeared to be the sec championship game. happy to see that back in the game as well as the sweatbands around the ankles.

By: Vikingsfanatic

Vikingsfanatic — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:52:11 +0000

http://www.ncaastrategies.com/ has a new video with more information on ncaa football 09.

By: Groundhog

Groundhog — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:07:12 +0000

Smarter playbook selection down the road. I don’t want to see teams continuing to send their QBs on running plays when the new guy lining up behind C has a rating of 49 for speed.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:56:41 +0000

I hope they improve the little things like more jerseys and replica stadiums. But i cant wait to see the news this week. Pasta you will have it posted right?

By: shoeprint

shoeprint — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:07:49 +0000

I want to see how they will change up Michigan’s O to the spread… Threet and Feagin at QB (One Pro and a Scrambler), that will be the oddest thing to see… Michigan w/ a Spread O.

By: fox

fox — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:28:01 +0000

i can’t wait i hope ea can live up to the hype.

By: jman

jman — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:32:57 +0000

cool