Playstation 3 Item ID: #366NCAA Football 11
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Item DescriptionFeel the emotion of authentic college football more than ever with NCAA Football 11. From running the ‘no-huddle’ spread offense to walking out of the tunnel locking arms, everything you do and see will be original to your favorite school. With an all-new locomotion engine and real assignment A.I., only NCAA Football 11 gives you 120 ways to win! Item Reviews5 Responses to “NCAA Football 11”Leave a Reply |
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this game is fun and great to play. Got it yesterday and all ready ove it. I have Ncaa ’10 and this is better. I like how the added school traditions to begining of dynasy.
Now keep in mind that I only play Dynasty mode. I’d say that this is the best one since the 2007 version. The players don’t look goofy while they run. I realy enjoy playing this game, and I plan to go very deep into Dynasty mode–make a sorry team into a champion–but the reason that I don’t give it 5 stars is because you cannot change the camera. I liked the overhead camera mode and sideline view that PS2 offered, but for some reason EA only wants to give you one camera option. Are they just too lazy to make the camera options like they did on the PS2 versions? If your like me, and you haven’t bought NCAA in a while, this one is worth buying.
First and foremost, let me state that I am a sport fanatic and that’s not limited to college football. Like 99.9% of sport games available, the yearly copy is simply a rehash of the previous year’s game plus a few new gimmicks (EA is obviously the King of this). I am not much a of Madden player, however, as I prefer its college counterpart because I find an enormous amount of fun in recruiting. And it’s in this field that EA seems to make players’ lives difficult in the sense that they make it harder than it has to be. This year, I can say with a clear conscience, recruiting has taken an ENORMOUS step in the right direction.
Let me continue my review in the form of bullets, rather than paragraph form.
PROS:
-Recruiting now takes a mere 10 minutes per inquiry/pressing of a certain pitch, offering a scholarship, scheduling a visit, making a promise (which can now be done IN season), negatively recruit against another school, etc. In years past, pressing a certain pitch could take way too many minutes from your 10 hours of recruiting time.
-Recruiting takes on a game-show-like twist. Recruits will now ask you about certain pitches rather than the other way around. Once they pick a topic, you can either “make a pitch”, “ask them how they feel about it”, “compare to another school” (aka negative recruit), “Change the topic”, “make a promise”, “schedule a visit”, or “offer a scholarship”. I don’t know if this is considered a PRO, but it’s a breath of fresh air for this central cog in the game.
-You can change the “recruiting difficulty” if you don’t want to keep saving and redoing certain weeks of your dynasty if a certain prospect keeps going to another school. This is nice because sometimes I don’t want to lose all the 4/5 stars to the SEC…
-The “Locomotion” game play engine is a large step towards achieving game play comparable to the KING of football games, Madden. In years past, the movements of the players were “jerky” (can’t think of a better word), while this year this game offers a much more fluid football. You’ll know the difference once you pop the disk in your system. Personally, I’m pretty satisfied with the actual game play. It runs smooth and tackles/catches all look exceedingly accurate. The graphics are really beginning to utilize the full capacity of the PS3 system and I can only hope that EA builds on that rather than maintain it for the next few years.
-Unique entrances for each team. I think this is a gimmick on EA’s part just to say they added something new to the game but for people who go to BCS conference schools (I’m an Oklahoma Sooner, myself), you will definitely enjoy this added feature. You’ve got every thing from the Wolverines running under the “M CLUB Supports You” Banner, to the Clemson Tigers touching Howard’s Rock before running into the stadium, etc.
-Unique offenses. College football is innately different from its pro-counterpart because of the unique offenses the majority of schools play. This year, such offenses are highlighted. From the triple-option at Georgia Tech, to the no-huddle at OU, to the Pistol-set at UCLA, etc. It certainly gets boring running the Pro-set for every team, doesn’t it?
-The entire interface of the game has been retooled and again, this is a huge breath of fresh air for loyal fans of the game who have to see the same things year in and year out.
Cons:
-The “Pay-to-play” recruiting features are STILL here and it’s awfully annoying because they include the options among the other FREE features and I suppose sometimes I forget it’s not free and end up clicking on it (sorry for the run on sentence). They call them “time-savers” but paying on top of the $60 + tax you pay already? At least with the Map add-ons for COD MW2, you play them every other game so you get the most use out of it. The features EA makes you pay for are just side features that would surely enhance my satisfaction were they included.
-At the end of the day, if your preference is for the most realistic football experience, you cannot look towards an NCAA game for it. I know I said this had great game play, but it’s obvious that EA saves the best for Madden, as millions of more people would prefer the NFL. Which makes one wonder how good Madden 11 will be…
-Same old commentary…… wish they would completely revamp that.
-Each team still only has one unique (if at all) TD celebration. It would be nice for each team to have multiple interpretations of their respective celebrations (i.e. V for Victory/USC, the Gator Chomp, etc.)
-I’ve noticed that there is A LOT of lag when scrolling through options in dynasty mode. I don’t know if everyone else out there is going through the same problems.. my PS3 is not even a year old yet and it’s the slim line one so I doubt its my system.
-More to come?? After a few days of playing, I haven’t seen anything else yet. And I will update as I see them!
THANKS FOR READING!
I’m just going to go over my basic impressions, and if you want to ask me further in depth questions, I’d be happy to defend my opinions in the comments section of the review.
What I liked:
- The presentation was really good this year. The pre-game intros were cool. Fans in the stands, refs on the field coming back this year were great additions.
- The graphics were a step up and the ESPN integration was a plus. Better lighting. Fewer jaggies. Better overall look to the game.
- Overall smoother feel to the game.
- The overall after the snap gameplay. This is largely unchanged from past years, and that’s a good thing. A few tweaks here and there. Perhaps it’s a bit smoother. But it’s solid.
What I was neutral about
- The stuff I didn’t try. I’m not a fan of online dynasty or Road to the Show, so I can’t comment on those.
What I didn’t like:
- The play calling screen. Why did they change this? It’s set up so that the CPU will automatically call a play for you. I get that. But if you want to call your own play, it’s still really weird in that you scroll one play at a time, not several plays. It was perfect last year. It didn’t need to be touched.
- The camera. It was either too far away or too close. It started really far out, and zoomed really far in. It started to get annoying.
- The play art, whether you are in no huddle or not, pops up on screen and you can’t turn the feature off.
The long and the short. Last year’s effort was the best in years. In many ways, this is an improvement. I just didn’t like the feel of it. Is that a poor reason to prefer last years game over this years? Perhaps. But there are a few reasons why, and I’ll be happy to discuss further in the comments section.
The best football video game I’ve ever played was Madden 10, even though I’ve always LOVED playing the NCAA game as a big college football fan.
After Madden 10 was released and I played it into submission, I thought I would never go back to NCAA. I thought the 09 and even 10 versions of NCAA fell flat and were bland.
NCAA 11 fixes all of that. After only a short week of play, I’ve totally gone back to the NCAA bandwagon and this is the best NCAA game yet. The graphics, and particularly the animations are the best the series has seen. The gameplay is super solid as well, making it challenging but not cheap. You can chose any type of play style or playbook and play anyway you want and it all feels legit and smooth.
The dynasty modes are slightly unchanged but have a new interface which I think is again the best yet.
I’m playing the online dynasty with a group of friends for the first time, and being able to recruit online from your P.C. to your online dynasty is an amazingly fun and addicting obsession to help you kill time during a lunch break or during Chemistry 101.
While I am debating owning both Madden and NCAA in the same year (Have heard great things on Madden, including the addition of Gus Johnson doing the announcing) I am not debating getting Madden as a replacement for NCAA for the first time in three years.
Madden might have to wait its turn.