| I only had a chance to play 3 quarters of my game, as it didn't finish downloading until I was T-minus 5 hours to my alarm going off to wake me up.
But what I played I liked. The crowd seemed much smarter in terms of reacting to what was going on. The stadium looked beautiful, and the lighting was fantastic.
Honestly, I was a big fan of last year's game, so minor tweaks to gameplay is fine with me. And they seem to be there in the running game, and in some defensive things I noticed.
The "home field advantage" thing was pretty cool, as the LSU quarterback (is that the recently-kicked-off-team Perriloux QB'ing for them?) would get shaky lines representing patterns before a play, and some of the players would even have a question mark instead of a button assignment. I think it's a cool way to make it seem like you have a rattled quarterback.
I had one animation I really liked where my dude tipped the ball, and it hit the ground. But another DB picked up the ball and started running, like he had intercepted it, when clearly he hadn't. He took about 6 steps and slowed down, knowing he didn't get away with it. VERY accurate as to what happens in a real game, and I hope that's just one of many cool touches to make the presentation of the game that much better than last year's.
So far, so good. | 
