"Last week I had the chance to get some hands-on time with EA Sports' NCAA Football 2009 before the PlayStation 3 cover announcement in New York. As most of you now know, Matt Ryan was selected as the cover athlete for the PS3 and DeSean Jackson was selected for the PS2. I'd like to mention that the build we were playing was not final code and there was obvious room for improvement as expected with any unfinished game. I had the opportunity to play both the XBOX360 version of the title as well as the PS3 installment. For those of you wondering if the two versions play similarly or if there is a drastic difference, you have nothing to worry about. EA Sports has made it a priority for both titles to play exactly the same, which is probably why they demoed both versions side-by-side at the event." -PSU
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."
Probably won't be getting this I may get Madden haven't bought one in a few years so this year will be different then the version I got. I'm just glad that there getting PS3 on par and sometimes excideng the 360 version.