In case you missed it the demo for March Madness 08 is available for the 360. I'm not sure about the PS3 version at this time, though.

Kentucky @ Louisville, Varsity difficulty

I played about 3 games this morning and it feels like a more refined version of NBA Live. Although, they did slow the gameplay down a little bit, but I like that.

The graphics look pretty good. The gym looks beautiful and the player models look good. It seems they fixed the problem where when you pass, the player that receives it stops running when he catches the ball. So now you can actually run a fast break.

I do like how insted of showing the player's number and position underneath the player himself, they have a little menu that shows up on the bottom corner of the screen that shows the pertinent infor like compusure level and what not. It took a second to get used to it, but after that it was no big deal. You can pump up the crowd, your players, yourself, or there's another option that says "opponent", but I never used it so I don't know what it does.



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So, yeah. Those are my impressions. I don't know why it says it was post at 8:42 or whatever. I guess I have to adjust for DST

DST
Detroit Standard Time?

(Isn't that like 15 years behind the rest of the world?)

Hi King!

Daylight Savings Time, ass cheek.

OK, I just played a few more games. What's kind of annoying is that there's a pause between some animations. Like, you can't fake a shot, then sidestep the defender if he goes up to block it. Instead, there's a slight pause right after the head fake where you can't do anything.

Also, that pause is there when jumping for a rebound. If you jump up, you can't immediately jump back up after coming down, you have to wait.

Hopefully that's only present in the demo.