Adaptive AI Blog Posting
Today a new article on the Inside EA Blog focuses on the addition of Adaptive AI. This is something that will be seen in both Madden 10 and NCAA Football 10. This is certainly something that has been long overdue and will hopefully lead to a more realistic simulation whether that be offline or online. You can check out the full posting here.
First and foremost, we hope that our Adaptive AI will add a ton of replay value to our games this year by forcing you as a gamer to continue to mix up ...
NCAA Football 10: What is Teambuilder?
The NCAA Football 10 dynasty video that went up yesterday displayed the menu screen which includes a mode called Teambuilder. Probably the two most frequently requested features from the community have been for the return of Create-A-School and FCS. It has widely been expected that at least one, but probably not both, would make it in this year.
At this point it is just speculation but Teambuilder representing what has been known as Create-A-School certainly makes sense. It would be easie...
NCAA Football 10 Online Dynasty First Look
After the revolutionary introduction of Online Dynasty in NCAA Football 09 the first look at what is being prepared for the mode in the upcoming release has been eagerly anticipated. Today that first look was presented through a video that has been posted on the official website for NCAA Football 10 and which I've included in this article.
Discussed in the video are the custom conferences, the tuning of simulated stats to provide more realistic output, and fixing of the glitch that preven...
NCAA Football 10 Player Lock and Defensive Assist
This week's Inside EA Blog posting for NCAA Football 10 describes new additions to the game in Player Lock and Defensive Assist. You can check out the full article here which includes a video showing a Player Lock camera shift.
In an effort to help players on defense we’d also like to introduce Defensive Assist. By pressing the A button on Xbox 360 (or the X button on PlayStation 3) your player will move to his correct position at any given time. For example say you are not exactly sure w...
Pursuit Angles in NCAA Football 10
One of the biggest gripes the community had with NCAA Football this last year was the pursuit angles taken by defensive players. In this week's posting on the Inside EA Blog designer Russell Kiniry goes over the improvements made to pursuit angles and demonstrates with two sets of videos comparing 09 to 10. You can check out the full posting here.
We’ve really only begun to scratch the surface of this year’s game and we haven’t even hinted about a few of the biggest additions. Sadly w...
NCAA Football 10: Pocket Protection
One of the first reactions to the earlier screenshots for NCAA Football 10 was concern over how it appeared to have some of the same flaws as previous years. There was no sense of a pocket or pass rush evident and the QB was able to scramble out at will. Granted those screens were intended to show off something else completely and are early work-in-progress looks at the game. Still though it is good to see EA respond with a blog posting concentrating on the formation of a pocket.
We are sti...
NCAA Football 10 Community Event Coverage
While the actual attendees at the NCAA Football 10 Community Event aren't going to be in a position to speak about game details EA Sports is providing a good deal of interesting on-going coverage. This is all less about promoting the game and more on how the event benefits both EA and the consumers and the process behind it all. I'll go ahead and keep track of everything below and add links in throughout the day.
EA Sports Live at 3ET/Noon PT: The live radio broadcast with the Thompson B...
New Gameplay Camera in NCAA Football 10
Yesterday brought some new information on NCAA Football 10. There will be four different cover athletes announced in a month and on April 9th the first look at Online Dynasty will go out. We also got details on the Season Showdown online mode.
Madden 09 had the "action cam" which was good in theory though it presented its own drawbacks. Basically the idea is to keep all the players on screen. It looks like NCAA is going the same direction as the latest Inside EA Blog posting details the new c...