College football is about atmosphere, and NCAA Football 09 manages to capture this environment handily thanks to items like school chants and cheerleader stunts. The improvement of jukes and ballcarrier moves adds depth to your offense, while the inclusion of features like the Quarterback Quiz and Icing the Kicker makes the overall gameplay stronger. The Online Dynasty is an excellent addition to this series, but the mistakes made with the Campus Legend mode keeps this year's title from being truly extraordinary.
Presentation - 8.5
Graphics - 8.0
Sound - 8.5
Gameplay - 8.0
Lasting Appeal - 8.5
Overall -
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."
by far (kills Madden 08 and I prefer the pro game). Got the game a little early and am having a great time with it. Don't believe me check the leaderboards - KobeBryant24 (7-4) on PSN. I was ranked 14th in the world on Sunday (lol). Oh well, didn't have time to play it yesterday but I expect to be dropped to about 140th if I have time today!
that the ps3 version was used in the review? how crazy is that, i don't think i've ever seen a multi plat sports game use the ps3 version for the video review on ign.
Yes, I said it and I mean it. This really is a good game and it excites me even more for Madden.
I caved and bought it for PS3 this year rather than 360...(HDMI?). I have always been suspicious of football games on PS3 but this is the year they finally pulled their heads out of the a55es.
60 gig owners beware! I have been hearing alot of bad things like graphic tearing, fans floating in the air, teams dissappearing etc on 60 gig systems. Luckily I own the 40 gig.