I Played College Football 25 Early! Let's Talk Gameplay!

I got to play EA Sports college football

25 early and in this video I'm going to

share some gameplay details I'm going to

let you know how the game's playing and

I'll let you know when you can expect

even more information EA brought me down

to the studios last week to get my hands

on the game early so that I could get

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so let me first start by saying what I

can talk about and what I can't talk

about so what I can talk about is my

experience playing the game I can kind

of tell you what the game play is

feeling like I can dive a little bit

deeper on some of the official features

that EA is already released but I can't

go into certain specific details or

features about things that EA has not

released yet I also can't really talk

about game mode yet is EA is going to be

releasing news on that very soon and

when they do then I can dive deeper on

those specific things but what I can say

before we get into all of that is expect

some big gameplay stuff tomorrow that's

going to be a really big day I'm going

to talk about gameplay in this video but

there's going to be way more detail

coming tomorrow that I can really dive

into and in terms of game modes and

presentation things like Dynasty mode

Road to Glory and all that stuff while I

can't dive deep into those specific

things today because EA said that they

don't want us talking about that until

they officially release that news

themselves in the coming weeks what I

can say is this while not disclosing

specific features and things like that

if you are worried about the game modes

and the immersion and the presentation

being on the same level that Madden has

been on the last few years or if you're

worried about those things not being as

good or better as the old NCAA games if

you're worried about all of those things

not delivering what I would say is don't

worry they cooked and I wish I could

dive deep into some of those specific

things today but I will be able to very

soon but just know if you're worried

about this being basically just Madden

with college teams or this being half

the game that NCAA 14 was don't worry

you're not going to be disappointed so

let's start with how the game plays now

I was able to play the game for about 3

hours me and some other people that were

down there and the first thing right off

the bat is the thing that everybody

wants to know does it feel like Madden

is it just Madden's gameplay with

college teams and I don't think anybody

down there that was playing felt that

way it definitely felt different from

Madden the same as the old NCAA games

the old NCAA games while they were on

the same engine as Madden most years and

while they did share gameplay animations

NCAA always had a very unique feel and

most people seem to prefer that to

Madden and I would say the same thing is

true with this game it does not feel

like a Madden game number one it's way

faster than Madden much like the old

NCAA games were I believe one of the

developers said it's about 30% faster

than Madden which is a pretty big deal

and I think a lot of that is just to

mimic how high-powered the offenses can

be in college football how fast the game

is it doesn't mean that the game is

faster because all of the players are

necessarily faster because the NFL the

average player is faster because the NFL

is the top of the top but why the

college game feels faster is because

there's a bigger discrepancy from the

top players and the bottom players you

also a lot of times in college football

see it's a more of a high-scoring game

you see defenses struggle a little bit

more in college and that's kind of the

case with this game it feels like a very

wide openen fast-paced game it feels

very quick if you've played Madden over

the past few years espe esecially on the

current gen consoles the PlayStation 5

and the Xbox series x/s a lot of people

would describe the Madden gameplay is

actually a little bit slower and a

little bit sluggish at times it

definitely slowed down quite a bit when

it moved to the newer consoles the

college game does not feel like that the

college game is very fastpac you can

make a lot of good moves on the left

stick in the open field you can score on

a lot of big plays and yes at times

defense feels a little hard to play

because of how high-powered the offenses

can be at times the word I would use to

describe the game G play is just simply

fun and that's objective of course

that's my opinion some people might not

think it's fun but to me the game being

faster being quicker being a little bit

more responsive is fun to me whereas

Madden at times feels a little bit more

restrictive and just a little too slow

for my liking now it is true that both

games do share quite a bit of the same

animations much like the old college

games do however I am happy to report

that the college game definitely has a

lot of new animations now I'm not sure

if some of those are going to also

transfer for over to Madden but some of

them won't and the biggest example of

this of course is the one foot inbound

catches there's a ton of animations for

stuff like that obviously that's not

going to translate over to Madden

because it's kind of useless there as

you need two feet in bounds for it to be

a catch and Madden but even outside of

that definitely notice just new

animations overall and I would expect

Madden to have some of those new ones as

well but of course you're going to still

see some of the same tackle animations

you've seen in Madden you're going to

see some of the same catch animations

you've seen in Madden I don't really

think that's something that should be a

surprise again since the older game

shared animations as well but the

college game definitely feels uniquely

different and again everybody that was

there playing felt the same way I didn't

run into a single person that says Ah

this feels a little too much like Madden

it just doesn't now I'm going to

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into some of the specifics here but

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talk about the stuff we can talk about

so on EA's blog a few weeks ago they did

talk about some specific gameplay

details and I can dive a little bit

deeper on those as they have been

officially released but again tomorrow

expect some more big news and I'll be

able to dive even deeper so let's talk

about campus IQ which is the name for

the feature set that EA is bringing this

year with college football now is this

kind of just another gimmick we've seen

with Madden sometimes sometimes these

things can affect the gameplay in good

ways sometimes they're a little gimmicky

I'll say from all the stuff that I

played this actually really changes the

way you play football at least an EA

football game in my opinion it's got

some really cool things in there that

actually make you have to manage your

team on the field in ways that Madden

has just not had maybe ever honestly or

anytime recent so one of the things that

EA did mention a couple of weeks ago

when they talked about the wide open and

fast-paced gameplay they mentioned

player ratings that fluctuate throughout

the game and they also mentioned new

in-game passing mechanics now I can't

dive deep into how the passing mechanics

work but I will say this because they

have revealed already that there are new

in-game passing mechanics the passing

mechanics in college football are

different than Madden and that's

definitely been something that a lot of

people have been critical love with

Madden over the years is that the

passing can always use work more so in

terms of like ball trajectory the ball

sometimes comes out too low and you

can't really put the ball in certain

spots drop it into the bucket as good as

you would like to it's definitely gotten

better over the years over the past few

years they've definitely made this

better than it was before but I will say

the passing system from college is not

what we've been using in previous Madden

games and it is 100% better than the

passing mechanics from the previous

Madden games and and this is just

another example of how the game play is

different from Madden aside from the

faster quicker gameplay aside from

feeling like you have a little bit more

control aside from having some different

animations in the game and different

plays and playbooks you also have a

passing system that is different than

Madden which makes throwing the ball

feel different than it doesn't Madden

and in my opinion it feels better than

Madden when it comes to passing the ball

this is something I'm a big fan of and I

can't wait to dive deeper on it in terms

of playbooks and plays and things like

that I don't think I can dive too deep

on that because they're going to reveal

more information but what I can say is I

got to check out a number of the

playbooks and the time that I was on the

game all the stuff that you expect to be

there is there the way these teams play

in real life their playbooks from what I

could see reflect that in the game the

option and the triple option is really

good really powerful as expected the

rpos are very good and powerful as

expected and dare I say they're kind of

annoying too to go against at times but

that's college football they're annoying

for those defenses to go against in real

life too and if anything these things

work a lot better in college than they

do in the n fell because of the talent

Gap and things like that and a lot of

teams base their offenses around you

know certain option Styles or a lot of

RPO stuff so that is present here and

you're going to feel the power of that

stuff in this game now I will say the

one thing I didn't like really CU

there's always going to be something no

matter how much you like a game there's

always going to be some aspect of it

that you're not a fan of I wasn't crazy

about the ball carrier moves I don't

feel that the ball carrier moves were as

powerful as I'd like them to be or as

powerful as I remember them being in

some of the older NCAA games and even

some recent Madden games however though

what I will say is the left stick is

really good it's very responsive so if

you're good at making those stops at the

right time making those manual cuts and

just knowing how to maneuver a player

you don't really even need the ball

carrier mov that much because with the

fast-paced game playay and how

responsive and quick the left stick is

you can manually make people miss you

can make a lot of moves you can make a

lot of good Cuts with the player and

also kind of what goes with this is I

found tackling to be pretty hard in this

game Landing hit sticks were definitely

hard even just tackling at times was

pretty hard because of how fast the game

is so the time and everything really has

to be pretty precise or you know you're

going to miss tackles and the offensive

guy is going to make you kind of look

silly which again some people might

really love that some people might hate

that some people don't like when

tackling is hard this definitely is

going to be an adjustment in terms of

just how fast the game is being able to

make tackles and hit sticks and also on

offense it's going to be a little bit

easier at first I think to get off those

big plays and you'll definitely feel the

power of those top in athletes a good

example of this would be jayen milro

from Alabama when I was playing with

them and I would take off running with

mil row you feel that top end speed you

feel the acceleration and just how he

kind of picks up that speed pretty

quickly accelerates and can pull away

from the defense and just how quickly

he's able to kind of stop and make

people miss and again especially with

how fast the game play is and how

difficult it is to tackle if you're not

a good user you really feel the power of

somebody like a Jaylen milro because

he's that much harder to tackle than a

lesser guy because he's just so quick

and so Shifty and to kind of go along

with that scrambling with the QBs all of

that felt really good again something I

like like about the college game you

definitely see those fast QBs guys like

Jaden Daniels last year they can take

off and they can run for big yards every

game because they're just that fast

they're that Shifty they're that

electric and what I did like about this

game and the limited time that I got to

play it is the o line also felt pretty

good the pocket formation felt pretty

good I felt like I was able to climb the

pocket more times than not and if you're

not putting spies on the field and

you're not accounting for fast QBs

you're able to take off quite often and

get big yards in the open field if

you're not putting spies and stuff like

that on the field to watch for those

guys you're going to pay more times than

not because the blocking especially for

some of the better teams it's going to

hold up a little bit longer the pocket's

going to be there you can step up find

those running lanes and really make some

big plays with these QBs I did also find

that the broken tackles were pretty

frequent in this game I don't know if

that's something they plan on tuning

obviously we do see a lot of broken

tackles in real college football but I

did feel that the broken tackles are a

bit too high in my opinion I was seeing

them a little bit too often I definitely

if there was one really big critique I

would have for this game is to balance

the broken tackles a little bit but

again the game is still a few months

away that type of stuff can very easily

be tuned if they see fit now another

thing EA mentioned a couple weeks ago

was the wear and tear system and it said

with the new wear and tear system as the

hits add up players wear down you have

to manage your players Health limit

their fatigue assess the risk of injury

and avoid onfield Mistakes by using

strategic substitutions to ensure your

players are at their best when it counts

the most so again I can't break this

down completely in depth just today more

on that tomorrow but this definitely

affects the gameplay and this is not

just a simple fatigue system if you're

thinking that this is basically just a

fancy way of wording fatigue as it is in

Madden where hey you know you've run the

ball with a guy for three plays you got

to sub them out and put the backup

running back in or you're no huddling

down the field and some of your skill

position players are now a little

fatigued this is not that this is a

legit wear and tear system the hit your

players take matter if you overuse your

players that matters and you have to

monitor this or you will risk injury to

certain body parts this is actually a

very unique way of playing football that

we really haven't seen in an EA game at

least to my knowledge you have to really

manage your team on field with this wear

and tear system this isn't a game where

you can just kind of do anything you

want and not have to account for what

your players are going through you're

going to absolutely have to account for

that stuff or you're going to risk

losing them now I'm not really sure how

this is going to be implemented for

online play I think this is definitely

going to be a bigger thing for dynasty

play I think it will probably be online

play as well but this is definitely

something that's going to take an

adjustment because a lot of people are

used to just kind of doing whatever they

want in the game you know taking as many

hits as they want abusing a player over

and over and over you're really going to

have to take a lot of stuff into account

now and that's what I like about this

game and again why it's not the same as

Madden because you don't have to do this

in Madden this game how it's different

than Madden on field aside from the fact

that it's faster and again like has some

different passing mechanics it's just a

lot of these little things that aren't

present in Madden that you have to

monitor and you have to account for so

it just completely changes your whole

approach to how you're going to play a

game you have to be more strategic with

the college game because there's systems

in place that make you have to be more

strategic and if you're not you're going

to suffer because of it now another

thing that EA did mention weeks ago was

home field advantage and it said

specifically that there's game altering

home field advantages that rattle your

rivals in college football's toughest

places to play it said test your squad's

road game composure and confidence level

as you play through distractions like

screen shaking missing pre-play icons

and moving play art so of course if

you've played these games you're

familiar with this in the old NCAA games

you're familiar with it even in Madden

as they have a version of this but again

what I will say about this is it's just

better in college football mainly

because the crowds are better the thing

with Madden is the crowds are never

really alive the game doesn't feel too

alive the audio isn't the greatest at

least in my opinion but with college the

crowds feel alive home F Advantage

actually feels like it matters and again

as it said on their blog this is going

to alter the road game compos Ure and

that is another thing that is present in

this game is composure now again I'll be

able to dive deeper on this probably

tomorrow but composure is a thing in

this game and you know just along with

the wear and tear and those other things

it's another level of monitoring your

team that just isn't really present in

Madden and they also mentioned here

about the toughest places to play if

you're familiar with the old NCAA games

you remember there were the 25 toughest

places to play and also in this same

blog from weeks ago they even

specifically mention when speaking on

the pageantry and traditions and the

crowd and things like that they said

there's synchronized crowd chance

there's loudness meters as well as real

game day audio and fight songs so this

goes hand inand with that home field

advantage yes the loudness meter is back

in the game which is something we know

from the old games where you kind of

pump up the crowd and this is especially

a big deal in those toughest places to

play and the road team does get a little

bit more rattled it's a little bit

harder to play is an away team the

composure does come into effect and

we've already seen them talk about

ratings can flu uate based on a number

of different things how your players are

performing composure is one of those

things that's going to play into this so

really tying this all together here and

how it's different from Madden aside

from just feeling a little bit different

is that at every level you have to

monitor your team a lot more you have to

be very aware of what's going on and you

have to fight through some different

things here that if you've been playing

EA Games as of late you just haven't had

to deal with that type of stuff so if

you're going to approach this how you've

approached maybe playing Madden over the

past 5 to 10 years you're you're going

to be in for a surprise because it's

just not that type of game all in all

the game feels very electric it's very

fun I really don't foresee too many

people being disappointed in this game

there's always going to be somebody

that's disappointed you can't please

everybody that's impossible but I just

can't foresee people being disappointed

with this game overall I think from what

I learned about the game and what you

guys will learn more and more over the

next few weeks and what I got to play of

the game to me they delivered to me the

weight was well worth it the game was

extremely fun and again if you're

worried about the game not being as good

as the old games or if you're worried

about the game being way too similar to

current Madden again I would tell you

don't worry because they cooked there's

really not much in this game that you

could want that isn't there there are a

couple specific things that might not be

there which we will talk about soon but

they're not really deal breakers in my

opinion almost anything you could want

down to some of the very minute details

are in this game and once you find out

just all what is in this game I think

you're going to be even more excited for

it now if you want to sneak peek of some

of the little things that EA snuck in

their recent trailer that you might have

missed make sure to check out this video

right here on the screen