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NCAA Football 10 Review
EA gives it the old college try, one more time.
by Hilary Goldstein
July 13, 2009 - Many sports fans eagerly anticipate the release of NCAA Football each year rather than Madden. That's because the fast-paced, loose style of college football can often be riskier and more rewarding than its NFL counterpart. While I have often found the NCAA Football series more enjoyable than Madden, I've yet to be truly wowed by EA's efforts for the current generation of consoles. In the past few years, NCAA Football hasn't been able to stand toe-to-toe with Madden. This year brings a solid offering with NCAA Football 10, but I'm still not blown away. Though it may be good, NCAA Football 10 isn't the ultimate gridiron game.
For me, gameplay is the most crucial part of any sports game. A good chunk of what's changed this year is the fact that everything's more accessible (a good thing) and in many ways a lot easier. One of the best additions, the setup play, also makes it more likely you'll win. Or at least improves your ability to easily strategize your play calling. Setup plays are nothing new to football games. You run a bunch, get the corners and linebackers to creep in, then call play action and burn their asses. The new setup play function in NCAA Football 10 makes it all transparent. You'll see from the play select menu which plays are linked (so you know which running play is executed to look identical to which play action passes). And as you successfully perform a play, a percentage appears on its linked counterparts. This is how "setup" the defense has become due to your previous plays. It's the likelihood they'll bite on play action (or think a draw play is going to be a pass, etc). It's a nice little feature many might ignore, but it's this kind of... [Read More]
Hey guys, updated rosters can be found in the following locations:
PS3 - eascncaa10
Xbox 360 - EASCNCAA10
Both are live now, we should have some information on the patch tomorrow. The patch is really only awaiting final approvals and hopefully will be out soon.
Here's your chance to game against the NCAA Football 10 Dev team.
Now that everyone is within hours of getting their hands on NCAA Football 10, we thought it'd be a good time to set up a game with the devs night. For those of you not familiar with this type of event, you will have the opportunity to play a game of NCAA Football 10 with members of the dev team along with members of the EA SPORTS Community and Live Production teams.
The event will take place on Thursday, July 23, 2009 from 5-9pm EDT on the XBOX 360 and will feature several members of our team including:
- Russ Kiniry (EASPORTS RussK) - NCAA Football 10 Designer
- Ben Haumiller (EASPORTS BenH) - NCAA Football 10 Designer
- Larry Richart (EASPORTS LarryR) - NCAA Football 10 Associate Designer
- Greg Heddlesten (EASPORTS GregH) - NCAA Football 10 Associate Designer
- Mike Scantlebury (EASPORTS MikeS) - NCAA Football 10 Assistant Producer
- Will Kinsler (Raczilla) - EA SPORTS Community Manager
- Justin Dewiel (Dewiel) - EA SPORTS Community Manager
- Eric Gray (Emantx) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Producer
- Rob Thompson (SAMamboking) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Host
- Jason Thompson (PrimetimeSA) - EA SPORTS Broadcast Host
*Please note that each team member's gamertag is noted in parenthesis above.
While we'd like to play a game against everyone, we realize that we are only going to play against some of you during the event so we are encouraging everyone to play games against each other and upload the highlights to beta.easports.com for the rest of the community to see. We will be creating a thread in the NCAA Football forums around the event... [Read More]
NCAA Football 10 Review
The PS3 and 360 roster update is now live!