NCAA Football 10: Its In The Details
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In the second blog focused on NCAA Football 10, designer Adam Thompson goes over some of the new additions to the game that would be considered as small but authentic details. Included are field goal nets, camera flashes, and team specific bowl endzones. You can read the full posting on the Inside EA Blog which includes a few screenshots here.
Before we had to use a single piece of art for every field. With 120 teams and 38 bowl and championship games there was no way to create a field for every game with every possible team matchup and fit it on the disk (I was going to do the math but gave up quickly!). Instead we have 38 bowl and championship fields with blank endzones, and 120 custom endzones (one for each team). When you load into a bowl or championship game, the Texture Compositor takes the three pieces of art and combines them into one field.
Again these should help to improve the feel of the game. I am concerned seeing the camera flashes mentioned after last year. In moderation that can be effective to increase atmosphere but only when presented selectively. Instances such as opening kickoffs, after scores, or in big games. While he states they are tuning the intensity and that bigger games will have a higher amount of flashes we heard similar about Madden 09. Seeing flashes going off constantly is just annoying, distracting and unrealistic especially during day games.
February 27, 2009 at 1:06 am
should help a little bit, but need FCS teams
February 27, 2009 at 1:21 am
If not F.C.S. teams at least give us C.A.S. feature
February 28, 2009 at 7:49 am
I know it's well past joke status now, People were practically expecting FCS to be re-introduced in 08, then with App State's huge upset, for sure 09, now it doesn't look good for 10 either. Regardless of it being a top five request every year, EA doesn't seem to want to bother with it…
February 28, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I agree, LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN EA!!!
February 27, 2009 at 1:29 am
ok this is really not showing me any effort to improve the gameplay. all they have been sayin since next-gen ncaa and madden came out is "we r improving the "feel". what exactly is that supposed to mean? i wish they would stop takin up space on the disc with these stupid graphics things (that still look like crap) and stupid tiny unneccessary features i.e. camaras flashing. and add things that will actually add to gameplay such as more tackle animations, better sack animations realistic defensive and offensive play and better a.i.
February 27, 2009 at 1:33 am
AND THEY ALREADY HAD FIELD GOAL NETS,CAMARA FLASHES AND THE TWO TEAM LOGO THINGY!!!!!!!!!!! EA IS FULL OF TRYING TO TRICK THE CONSUMERS. AND THATS NOT RIGHT
February 27, 2009 at 2:01 am
uh, negative on the "two team logo thingy" the only times you saw the two team logos were during rivalry games at neutral sites, ie Red River Shootout (Texas/Oklahoma), Florida/Georgia, etc…
pasta, any news on them reading progressive lighting, the one stupid move they made last year was removing it from ncaa08.
February 27, 2009 at 2:30 am
true
February 27, 2009 at 10:51 am
ok but it was still there tho. and who gives a fuck if the logos r in certain spots in certain games?????? give me some damn gameplay!
February 27, 2009 at 1:54 am
What about the GAMEPLAY!?
February 27, 2009 at 2:06 am
please put progressive lighting back in
February 27, 2009 at 2:22 am
Its good to see they are focusing on small detail, that really helps create the overall atmosphere thats been missing in these games. Hopefully theyll focus on team specific details(chants, entrances) as well as these small details.
February 27, 2009 at 2:35 am
It would be crazy to see the Longhorns runnin out of the smoke with the American flags
February 27, 2009 at 5:07 am
agreed.
February 27, 2009 at 2:33 am
this is decent but i will not even consider the game until there are refs on the field
February 27, 2009 at 2:49 am
Cosigned! IF THEY DON'T ADD REFS ON THE FIELD & CHAINGANGS I WILL NOT CONSIDER THE GAME EITHER! WHEN THE HELL IS EA GONNA REALIZE THAT THE GAME LOOKS FAKE WITHOUT HAVING REFS & CHAINGANGS? I CAN'T EVEN TAKE THE GAME SERIOUS WITHOUT HAVING REFS ON THE FIELD! FOR CHRIST SAKE WE HAD THESE THINGS LIKE 15 YEARS AGO ON SEGA GENESIS & YOU MEAN TO TELL ME IN 2009 WE DON'T? WTF? NOT TO MENTION PROGRESSIVE LIGHTING, BETTER LOOKING SIDELINES WITH REAL COACHES & COLLISION DETECTION, TV STYLE PRESENTATION, ETC…PLEASE EA DON'T LET ANOTHER YEAR GO BY WITHOUT ADDING THESE THINGS! THIS IS SOOOO OVERDUE! Some people are gonna think I'm nitpicking but I don't care! I want realism & I'm sick of EA's gimics! The Next Gen honeymoon is over & it's time for them to deliver! We need to quit cutting them so much slack & hold them accountable. Why is it that NFL2K5 has far better presentation than any Next Gen football game that EA's put out & that game came out on a last gen console? That's unexceptable EA!
February 27, 2009 at 3:33 am
i agree! and madden needs to have all this as well!!
February 27, 2009 at 6:08 am
You mean unacceptable, Josh. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but using the right word, kind of important.
February 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Lol! I let my anger towards EA get the best of me!
February 27, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Uhhh, the game is fake….
February 27, 2009 at 2:58 am
Hopefully, EA will include the end zone art technology for Madden 10 as well.
February 27, 2009 at 5:23 am
Id prefer the "Good football game" technology myself
February 27, 2009 at 10:54 am
i kno right
February 27, 2009 at 3:32 am
lol, EA is still not making this game all it can be. these features are minor additions.
where are the refs?? chain crews?? field goal nets are nothing new and camera flashes were there in madden 09.
February 27, 2009 at 3:34 am
it shocks me how until this day, no game can come close to what NFL 2k5 was!! bring back 2k football and let the people who know football games make them! not these wack devs at EA who have probably never watched an NFL game on tv!!
February 27, 2009 at 12:39 pm
2k football?you cant be serious! like that was any better!
February 28, 2009 at 1:22 am
2k? you can't be serious, hopefully you only talking about presentation with that comment because if you like that game play you must be crazy.
March 9, 2009 at 2:22 am
I think most people would be crazy then. The gameplay on the 2k series was better than the Madden franchise at the time, which is why EA panicked and bought the exclusive rights to the NFL.
February 27, 2009 at 3:36 am
and why is there a damn EA sports logo on the net! all EA has is huge marketing to make up for the crap games they put out every year! you don't want know how pissed i was playing madden and hearing "THIS GAME IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FINE FOLKS AT EASPORTS."!!!! FINE FOLKS MY ASSS!!
February 27, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Seriously….A logo on a FG net? At least it isn't State Farm or Pepsi
February 27, 2009 at 4:13 am
one detail that i would like to see added to NCAA football 10 would be team specific entrances for example running through the "T" at tennessee, chief osceola planting the spear in the florida state logo, and rubbing howard's rock and running down the hill at clemson
February 27, 2009 at 5:09 am
nuff ' said
February 27, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I agree…This was in NCAA 2003 and it was an awesome touch never to be seen again….
February 27, 2009 at 5:15 am
this is COLLEGE not the nfl your not going to see hardly any camera flashes unless its a championship game
February 27, 2009 at 5:17 am
o and do they really have to put EA on the field goal nets? they love putting that everywhere
February 27, 2009 at 5:22 am
NCAA Football yet another EA Sports Game that still pales in comparison to and lacks many features of its past generations installments, some 5+ years in the past.
February 27, 2009 at 5:50 am
Flashes rule dont listen to pasta EA.
February 27, 2009 at 12:43 pm
i realy dont care about team specific bowl endonzes. i want less interception. my w.r. to stop dragging there toes when they are already 5 yards out of bounds! to stop running routes of bounds!!!! add 1aa teams!!! chain gangs and reffs!!
February 27, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I like the authentic end zones. My question is will it take a team's end zone from their home field and use that in the bowl game? For example, I always use Notre Dame which has diagonal lines in the end zone. If I go to a bowl game, I would not want to see diagonal lines used as ND's end zone.
Also, why are they doing this for all 38 bowls when not every bowl utilizes the team name in the end zone? Still, like the fact that EA is listening…
Hopefully, we can see an ESPN-style presentation with in-game scoreboard (meaning scores from around the country show on the screen during gameplay) ….
February 27, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Skihawks – go check out the full entry at the Inside EA Sports Blog. It has pics of all 120 team specific end zones, including a close-up of Notre Dame's.
February 27, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Bowl Patches?
February 27, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Don't most nets have the Allstate logo in real life?
February 27, 2009 at 5:01 pm
APF 2K8 and NFL 2K5 are LEAPS ahead of ANY Madden or NCAA football game…..If you disagree, you're blind….
February 27, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Who cares about netting.. I want to see a pre game show and some entrances or something.
February 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I just want the game to have all the things that they had in the last-gen game but with updated graphics. They had the presentation almost right on the PS2 version but they needed a better championship celebration at the end. The game to me was good but the overall presentation sucks or is mediocre at best.
February 27, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Excactly! For some reason that simple concept is like rocket science for EA!
February 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm
It doesn't look very good. It actually looks just like last year's in terms of overall graphics. What the heck have they been doing all year? LOL.
February 27, 2009 at 7:59 pm
WOW! END ZONE LOGOS?! WOOOOOHOOO!
That's something that has been in video games for years and years. It's something that should have been in every game they have made for the next gen systems. The fact that they are just getting around to this now is pathetic.
Thanks for nothing EA!
February 27, 2009 at 9:26 pm
exactly!
February 27, 2009 at 8:09 pm
The hilarious thing is, pretty much all of you will buy the game anyway despite your whining.
February 27, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Because if you love college football it's the only game on the market.
February 27, 2009 at 9:50 pm
It's a start.
Oh, and for all you "wah where's my gameplay" types, news flash: If you thought the programming was bad before, just wait until you see what the Photoshop junkies manage to piece together.
February 27, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Why and the hell waste time on camera flashes? Dumbest thing I have ever heard. Only flashing I want it is from the Co-Ed's and cheerleaders.
February 28, 2009 at 6:32 am
LOL…
February 28, 2009 at 8:58 am
get your mind out the frat house!
February 27, 2009 at 3:17 pm
please add refs and chain gangs !!!!!! This seems so obvious! Ea get your head out your asses ! While online dynasty saved 09 as well as other minor ” details” the game shows signs of potental , I hope the guys at ea keep there eye on these comments , alot of us were playing 2k games 5 years ago when they’re games had all these details . One thing to hope is that they’re giving us inside info as they’re going . Hopefully they update they’re blog about some gameplay improvements.
February 28, 2009 at 2:00 am
EA, I hope you read this. Since you are adding details to the game, can you please bring back team entrances? PLEASE! I dont understand how a game 4 years ago had entrances but a next gen game in 2009 can't even get it. No offense, but some people over there at EA need to get a clue. All of us love college football video games and there is no competition for EA to produce anything better. That is why they have sucked.
February 28, 2009 at 7:40 am
How is it that the old xbox had team endzones in bowl games,create a team features,yet the 360 can't do all this and it's a more powerful console….gimme a break with the excuses EA!!!!
February 28, 2009 at 7:46 am
Yay, another year of waiting, another FCS no-show it's looking like. What a bore. Seriously EA, why did you include them in PS2 for so long only to take them away and now with the FCS stronger than ever, leave them out? For fans of these schools it's getting unbelievably frustrating. The wait til' next year mentality is getting very stale.
February 28, 2009 at 11:00 pm
clay got owned eh clay?
March 3, 2009 at 10:41 pm
respond back chicken shitt…
March 2, 2009 at 4:48 am
Am I the only one that wants a MMO/NHL 09 type mode in NCAA, Madden and Live? I think those would be amazing.
March 5, 2009 at 6:51 am
what happened to ”If its in the game, Its in the game” BS! Dreadlocks, refs, chain gang, helmets fly off, true team entrances.. The old games had this stuff why dont the next gen??? Im tired of gettin cheated out of a good game cuz EA knows were gunna buy it anyway!