Excellent team and player research behind the game, as usual. The EA NCAA Top 25 is now a great pre-seaspoll, bar none.

User Rating: 8 | NCAA Football 08 X360
By vidbusters | Review Date:
First, a quick, funny, criticism of myself and EA. For the past several years, I'd say about six or so, I keep telling myself I will not buy another EA NCAA Football when it comes out. This is because the basic look of the game stays pretty much the same, and the small changes here and there aren't usually much to write home about, let alone spend $50-60+ on. Despite this, I keep on buying the game, year after year. Why? A few very important reasons that I underestimate and take for granted, right up until about June of each year, and then I run out to buy the game. Here's why:

1) Accurate team rosters, down to size(s), weights, abilities, etc. Yes, there are errors, but I'd say the accuracy is 90-95% pretty dead on.

2) Accurate team plays and strategies. Not easy to do, and yet, there you go - you have the playbooks in your hands. They even make updates for some "famous" plays from the year before, such as the three trick plays run by Boise State in their bowl game last year (check the gameguide posted here on gamespot to get the details). These three plays are at your disposal in 08. Very cool indeed, and again, hats off to EA for good research and attention to accuracy and detail.

3) All in all, you have a great ability to see into a crystal ball for the NCAA 08 season with this game. The teams match up and simulate like the real thing - what more can you ask for? I'd love more goodies in the graphics, details like cheerleaders and even some marching bands. I'd love for them to bring back fun stuff from 2004 like the classic and famous games you can replay in the last two minutes to see if you can either repeat or change history. I'd love for the Coaches Challenge to be a good thing, one way or another (too little in the past, too much now).

If you are a fan of EA NASCAR (series), like I am as well, you can appreciate that EA NCAA Football, like NASCAR, is probably best described as a sim vs. a game. People expecting a fun race game with NASCAR are disappointed because of how "realistic" it is. Although I'd love more thrills in graphics and gameplay out of NCAA Football, at the end of the day, I know what I'm paying for - accuracy in the player rosters, team playbooks and realism of team matchups.

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