NCAA Football 09 Demo is out.

[NPYYZ]

Downloading it now, I'll give my thoughts after I play it.

[KEEZY]

Nice! I'm going to go grab it now.

[NPYYZ]

I just played one game I was Ohio State, I won easily 21-0.

The stadiums , field and players look great, the crowd looks horrible.
The feel of the game was fairly smooth, players moved well and reacted well.
I was still able to scramble out to the right or left and hit the WR on the crossing pattern 90% of the time, not good, makes the game too easy.
I like being able to break out of some tackles with the HB. I had one nice 17 yard run where I broke a tackle and hurdled over another defender and got in for the TD.

Hot routing on offense seemed to work well. I sent the outside WR on a deep post because the defender was lined up tight on him, I had the feeling the WR would blow by him, he did, easy 6 points. When I tried it again the defender played off him a bit and stayed with him down the field so the defense did make the adjustment, that's a good thing.

Turnovers were not an issue. I got one INT after I coached my players to "get the ball back" Nice feature, they responded in kind with an INT. I also threw one INT, my fault never should have thrown into double coverage.

I noticed one person felt there were too many sacks. I had 3 sacks, all came when I blitzed the right and middle linebackers out of the 4-3 formation. The cpu sacked me once.

All in all I liked it, but I'll have to play at least half a season with the full game to give an complete impression of the game.

I'd say the demo is good enough for me to buy the full game.

[paniro777]

what is the demo, just a half, or a full game of 2min qtrs, or what?

[NPYYZ]

4 - 2min quarters, you can play LSU and Ohio State or you can play a mascot game Florida and Texas.
The more I play this game the better it gets.

[breathofj]

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.