EA Sports has released a list of features for the upcoming NCAA Football 09. Some of the highlights include online dynasties, roster sharing, home field advantage, wide open gameplay, and 60fps on the PS3.
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."
It features the same crap as last year, and the year before that...and dare i say...the year before that one too.
change their slogan from The #1 Collegiate Football Franchise, into The #2 Ripoff Football Franchise, right behind Madden of course. I agree with you Breakfast that is the same list from many years ago lol.
Yet, I still can't help myself I'm still going to buy this game in July. I just get too excited for the upcoming season to resist the game.
Yay! They finally are putting all the crap back in was in the last generation of NCAA: coop, sidelines, home field advantage .... Can't wait till next gen when they come out with a completely stripped version of it that has more realistic looking helmets. ( But now I can buy it bc they put coop back in and have my boy D-dawg on the cover)
I think I may pass, I've bought every year for as long as I can imagine. I'm personally sick and tired of the BS, these features should have been in since day one. It's what the third version of this gen, and it's just now getting them? Bleh. I'll wait for reviews.