college football at its best!
User Rating: 8.5 | NCAA Football 08 X360
first of all, this game is just pure fun. its so improved over last years game that i would rather have the demo version of 08 than last years full version of 07. gameplay is much deeper this year and much more exciting and its a lot more smooth with the 60fps. graphics were polished up a bit but not much different than last years which is somewhat of a dissapointment. the franchise mode is deep and recruiting is about as good as you expected with the ability to rank them and narrow down the prospects by many different things such as height weight 40 time school and etc. i have yet to play campus legend mode but i plan on it and i heard its really fun. graphics- they are decent, and are polished up from last year, but they arent really improved all that much overall and still dont look next gen. gameplay- gang tackling, high/low hit stick 2.0, more polished passing animations and better blocking schemes really have made this game so much better than last years. one thing i dont like is the catching animations and deep ball aren't improved hardly at all. sideline catches and a one handed catching animation have been put in but thats about it. well i guess there is tackles when ur mid air but that still doesn't make the deep ball animations any better and the WR and defender still dont collide together in the air and i think that should be one of their focuses next year is shoring up the catching/ secondary animations. but still, overall gameplay this year is really good.
sound- pretty good overall and the announcers do a fantastic job. but still dont feel the college atmosphere is loud enough. still no bands in sight and there are few fight songs. but overall, it is still a good sounding game.
misc- this where the game faulters, still no refs, no field goal nets (ball stops mid air tho), still no chain gangs, no cheerleaders, no band. EA definetely did not put any effort into the extra/misc things on the field. mini games are still the same too.
value- great replay value, for any football fan and college football fans will be satisfied. overall- great game, room for improvement with the catching animations and misc things and the graphics dont look next gen but overall, EA made huge strides with this game and its definetely work picking up.
