NCAA Football 09 brings back the modes we're certain to devote a lot of time towards. There's a new Dynasty Mode (and even Dynasty online) and a re-vamped version of Campus Legend. But for those who want just a little nibble, there are also five mini-games. Some are old, some are new.
IGN figured they might as well show all five (Horse, Special Teams Challenge, Tug-Of-War, Bowling and Option Dash), because any excuse to show video of NCAA 09 in action is a good one.
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."
i really liked NCAA 08 except for the fact that it SUCKED! i hope they take their time and make this one good.... im sure i'll end up pickin it up
With no interest in Madden this is the football game I am targeting for this year. It would be only the third football game I have gotten for this gen. I have been dissappointed with the first two (Madden 06-worthless, and All Pro - badly executed).
However, I want a football game not a bunch of minigames. If it keeps up that all they have changed are these crpy little "points" that they previously stripped out of the game (thus catching back up but not passing where they already were last generation) I will once again be extremely dissappointed and may just skip it.... AGAIN.