For all the college football gamers out there, here are the first screenshots of NCAA Football 09.
As GamePolitics has reported, Electronic Arts may soon face a lawsuit by retired NFL players who believe their likenesses were unlawfully incorporated into EA's best-selling Madden game. But former college players now want their slice of EA's money pie as well.
SF Weekly reports that a one-time college quarterback is now making the same claim as NFL retirees in regard to EA's popular NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball franchises. Samuel Keller (left), formerly of Arizona State and Nebraska, is the lead plaintiff in the class action suit.
But College athletes aren't allowed to be payed. A roster download is done by third parties, and merely makes renaming every player in the game much, much quicker. Which is what many gamers will do anyway.
And the players aren't always right anyway. Austin English (#33) from OU is black in NCAA 2008, but is clearly white in real life.
I don't know what he wants EA to do, they aren't allowed to pay the players, and gamers want to play as the players. It's a lose-lose.
The NCAA Football 09 $1,000,000 Challenge, sponsored by House-Kidder Entertainment, is a new nationwide Tournament that will allow U.S. video gamers to compete using the NCAA Football 09 video game on the Xbox 360 for a Grand Prize that could be as much as $1,000,000.
Operation Sports' Wil McCombs examines NCAA Football 09's recruiting model and gives suggestions on how to improve it for NCAA Football 10.
Excerpt: "The main system 'improvements' in '09 were, in my opinion, aimed in the wrong direction. Last year, EA developers presented gamers with ways to streamline the process via features like Quick Call and CPU assistance. Sadly, many sports games -- particularly EA Sports games -- yearn for the casual gamer, and these new tweaks made it nauseatingly evident. Considering the over-the-top, hardcore nature of most college football fans (and NCAA gamers), it seems counter-productive to dumb down the product for the masses, at least in this department."
Never ceases to amaze me how people lap up this crap from EA. This looks no better than a game on the PS2/Original XBOX.
EA dominance = Death of innovation and the ushering in of the era of formulas and insignificant tweaks to games that are fundamentally no different than their predecessors.
We live in a very promising period in gaming, but I sometimes look back with lament at what we have sacrificed in the long run. Makes me cry :-(
Because they look no different than the previous versions. First R6V now this.
What a waste of time to re-release the same game with the same graphics.
Well graphics with sports games increase very slowly...but at the end of this gen if you put in Ncaa 07 and then say Ncaa 2012 being the last one, you will notice a pretty decent difference...
This game better cost $35 'cause that looks the same as last year's version. Its obvious that Madden 2009 is gonna be crap now.
So disappointing.