NCAA Football 14 dev planning to freshen up stagnant presentation elements

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EA Sports' NCAA Football franchise has received many criticism recently, especially with this past year's NCAA Football 13, because of its lackluster and stale presentation. It's a problem that EA Tiburon, the studio behind the series, is knowledgeable of.
"That's a message we heard loud and clear," said Ben Haumiller, a producer on NCAA Football 14, inside a phone interview with Maplestory M Mesos Polygon recently. "There were symptoms of age, definitely."
Haumiller then listed tired, long-in-the-tooth bits of previous NCAA Football titles' presentation packages, and explained that Tiburon is either modifying them or stripping them out altogether. At the top with the list is usually a major interface redesign. The chunky, ESPN-inspired 3D elements that Cheap Maplestory M Mesos sat behind the key menu have left, simply because they caused sluggish performance in menu navigation — a tremendous problem for virtually every game, but particularly just for this series, which Haumiller called "menu-intensive." The goal this current year, he was quoted saying, should be to "keep things fast, keep things moving."