March Madness is back baby! The excitement of college basketball returns to the video game world with EA Sports' NCAA 08 March Madness for multiple platforms. If you live for the passion, tradition, and insanity that is college hoops, then this is the game for you. But if you appreciate a quality, masterful gameplay experience, you won't find it here.
As with previous installments in this franchise, EA brings the entire college basketball experience straight to your living room with crazed fans, nutty mascots, harmonic school bands and energetic cheerleaders. Yet despite all the positive features that make this game fun, the gameplay is very mediocre. But that's just the beginning.
UGO gives NCAA March Madness 08 an overall rating of C+. Review by Daniel Siani.
With CBS and Turner experiencing record TV ratings for the 2011 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, the video game industry is sitting on the bench during March Madness and ignoring the Final Four and the massive fan base it attracts annually. And publishers like Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive are leaving all of that potential money on the table.
TeamXbox writes: "If professional sports car drivers play Forza to learn tracks, and special ops teams play Full Spectrum Warrior to practice battlefield protocol, then it shouldn't be that much of a stretch to use EA's March Madness Edition of NCAA 09 to fill out that bracket.
We're sure some of you did exactly that: Simmed the tournament from EA's slick, downloadable b-ball game, and filled in from there. EA also simmed the entire tournament from start-to-finish; yet another useful tool for those that flunked Bracketology."
Sarcastic Gamer writes:
"We just got a peek at a Wii-exclusive series of games from EA aimed at solving the eternal dilemna of gaming mismatches. Peter Moore introduced All Play a feature being built into numerous Wii titles by EA in the coming year. We watched as Peter Moore played Tiger Woods with an LPGA star whose name I forgot. Sorry, I am sure she's like very famous and is deserving of my memory. Kill me."
