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NCAA Football 09 (360) Review

01:40 AM - July 15, 2008 by RaychelSnr

We have just posted our review of NCAA Football 09 for the Xbox 360.

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	"With every summer comes the anticipation of sports games as gamers prepare for the new season of interactive entertainment. Soon we will be bombarded with great titles and have to make decisions on which games to pick up and which games to pass on. Now the sports gamers new year has finally arrived with the release of NCAA Football 09. The new year does not start off with a bang, but it definitely has started off with a quality title."

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Game: NCAA Football 09Reader Score: 7/10 - Vote Now
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# 81 sportyguyfl31 @ 07/20/08 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by WallaceNails


	If you ever want to play a College Football game that is the way you always wanted, then help. You have the EA guys here listening.

ROFL...Yeah, all of our valuable feedback has produced this horse cack product we are currently saddled with.

# 82 sportyguyfl31 @ 07/20/08 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by dewdirty


	IIf you enjoy this game I envy you, because I wish I knew just a little less about football so I could too.

This right here is the best sentence of them all.

This game is flat out painful to anyone who truly loves this sport.

# 83 jfsolo @ 07/20/08 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by sportyguyfl31


	This right here is the best sentence of them all. This game is flat out painful to anyone who truly loves this sport.

There are a whole lot of people on this board who know college football very well, love it more than any other sport, and still love this game. There are at least 30, 40 folks who say they love the game, who I would have lost the farm betting that they would have trashed this game mercilessly. To me its inexplicable. It will be interesting to see how things stand in a couple of weeks though.

# 84 Marino @ 07/20/08 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by sportyguyfl31


	This right here is the best sentence of them all. This game is flat out painful to anyone who truly loves this sport.

I love the sport and the game it is not flatout painful for me to play.

# 85 bears5122 @ 07/20/08 05:11 AM

867-5309, you are pulling out the most bizarre examples from last season. These things you listed happen in most of the games and most of the simulations. The fact completion percentage in one game was 90% last season, doesn't mean every game should have that in the video game.

# 86 WallaceNails @ 07/20/08 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by sportyguyfl31


	ROFL...Yeah, all of our valuable feedback has produced this horse cack product we are currently saddled with.

Well, I have been on this site since 2002. This is the first time that EA has ever had guys here engaging the masses. Perhaps, NCAA 10 will have more of what the sarcastic blow-hards want.

# 87 Shadymamba @ 07/20/08 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by wEEman33


	Poisoning the well won't make valid criticisms disappear. I am neither a "newbie" nor an EA *****, I am simply a football fan who wants a football game that plays like this: instead of this: When EA release a football game that's closer to the former than the latter, I will gladly sing their praises. Until then, NHL 08 remains their only current sports series that's worth saying positive things about. P.S. The electric football comparison is probably giving the NCAA team too much credit; those games actually worked like they were supposed to when you opened the box and turned them on.

I havent gotten the game yet, but to this post here LMAO!!!!! this is too funny

# 88 bears5122 @ 07/20/08 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by 867-5309


	Like pissed off gamers who pick out one or two odd plays in a game to make videos of showing off their grievances with the game? Instead of posting the hundred or so normal ones.

If you're talking about videos that show off the poor pursuit, it's not two obscure videos. The pursuit is bad on every play and not relegated to some random anamolly.

# 89 Chodite24 @ 07/22/08 07:48 PM

I've had the game rented since release and THANK GOD I didn't drop 60 bones for it. I enjoyed it for the first game or two but then began noticing some disturbing trends and bugs that have already caused me to tire of the game. Seriously, who does QA for these games? The same kids who do QA on EA's shooters? What a freakin mess.

# 90 OMT @ 07/22/08 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dewdirty


	While you want testers to use "use cases" and testing plans to test software, it also very important to have someone try and "break" the software you develop so you can find and fix bugs. I seriously doubt EA has done this for the next gen systems.

Ummm... no. Our testers have to do the occasional checklist, but they spend most of their time trying to break the game. And they are very successful and we fix the bugs they find. Video games, based on scope, have bugs in the thousands. Take a game like Grand Theft Auto 4.. based on the scope of that game, I would bet they fixed 30 thousand bugs before shipping that game. And no, that isn't an exaggeration.

# 91 GoVols1985 @ 07/22/08 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by OMT


	Ummm... no. Our testers have to do the occasional checklist, but they spend most of their time trying to break the game. And they are very successful and we fix the bugs they find. Video games, based on scope, have bugs in the thousands. Take a game like Grand Theft Auto 4.. based on the scope of that game, I would bet they fixed 30 thousand bugs before shipping that game. And no, that isn't an exaggeration.

30,000??? Man, I bet the guys at Rockstar were about ready to shoot themselves by the time it was all over! No wonder they delayed that game so long, hell, with that many bugs to fix who can blame them?

# 92 Seahawk76 @ 07/24/08 03:27 PM

EA's football titles have frequently been overrated by reviewers since coming to next gen and it's unfortunate to see the OS reviewer doing it as well. The game has potential if it is patched but it simply has too many glaring bugs and gameplay flaws out of the box to rate anywhere near an 8.5. Tiburon needs to start being held accountable for its shoddy quality control by reviewers.

# 93 fistofrage @ 07/24/08 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by OMT


	Ummm... no. Our testers have to do the occasional checklist, but they spend most of their time trying to break the game. And they are very successful and we fix the bugs they find. Video games, based on scope, have bugs in the thousands. Take a game like Grand Theft Auto 4.. based on the scope of that game, I would bet they fixed 30 thousand bugs before shipping that game. And no, that isn't an exaggeration.

Seriously though, how do we find glaring problems within minutes of picking up the game. Either the testers don't know football, or they are popping in COD 4 instead of actually testing the game. There are just too many bugs and problems with this release to have any confidence in EA products. I would imagine that this will have a slight impact on opening day Madden sales.

I am just hoping you guys can get this stuff right. Could be a great game if properly addressed.

# 94 tbooth23 @ 07/25/08 12:33 PM

The graphics and gameplay on the wii version are plain terrible. It makes me wonder just how quickly this game was rushed into production. Then i noticed that while playing with South Carolina, my favorite team, home games should be played in Williams-Brice satdium but somehow they are played in the Miss. St. stadium. I am not sure how EA Sports can't get the satdiums right for all of the major BCS conferences. I mean if they can't get these teams right, how terrible is this game for fans of the smaller schools?

# 95 thmst30 @ 07/25/08 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tbooth23


	The graphics and gameplay on the wii version are plain terrible. It makes me wonder just how quickly this game was rushed into production. Then i noticed that while playing with South Carolina, my favorite team, home games should be played in Williams-Brice satdium but somehow they are played in the Miss. St. stadium. I am not sure how EA Sports can't get the satdiums right for all of the major BCS conferences. I mean if they can't get these teams right, how terrible is this game for fans of the smaller schools?

Of course the smaller schools are always the least important, and the most wrongly represented. Its just how it is. I don't like it, but I understand it to a degree.

# 96 Ugoddamrite @ 07/25/08 02:29 PM

College Football Atmosphere???... Granted these comments have no impact on gameplay whatsoever... but I'd like improvements to the surroundings.

All the stadiums look awesome. I think the idea of the visiting team section visible in the stadium was great. BUT... Did anyone go to a college where the home team fans cheer for an visiting teams touchdown? How about more dynamic reactions. Show some home fans upset. Pan over to the visiting fans section going crazy. Have sideline benches going crazy on long runs/big plays. If I'm a visiting team blowing out the home team I want to see those fans filing out door. Empty seats towards the end of a game would be true atmosphere.

One more thing... why are the cheerleaders the only females in the stadium? Has that sausage-fest in the stands ever been addressed?

# 97 beachdude33 @ 08/05/08 08:50 PM

i mean it sis a good game n all but really a 8.5 may b like a 7. theres waaaaaaaaaaaaaay 2 many thingzz rong 4 it 2 b a 8.5!!!!!!! the roster thing wit the teams disapperin. the other ncca 08,07,06, ect. r waaaaaayyyy better wit all the patches comin out y make the game if ur gonna have soooooooooooooooooooo many problemos wit it. n EA is a good sports video game makin company sooooo i was waaay surprised by it all!!!!

# 98 beeftidefan @ 09/21/08 01:10 PM

I merely have two comments:
1) I do think that the QB% is too high, even though it helps me.
2) Why in the world is Ohio State an A+ team. The only thing I can think of is a huge bias. Come on, everyone will admit that the Big Ten is down this year, the SEC is up, and USC is on its own, so why not put it in the game. I think most of the other teams are about right, except USC and Florida should be better. (Well, Clemson is too good, but no one could have predicted that.) This is my first time playing this game in two years, but I can already tell you something about the people that made it. Sad.

# 99 koebsual @ 09/21/08 02:44 PM

Jones'n for this game bad, how would you all rate it now post patch #2? I don't need a perfect game anymore, won't happen anyways. I would like to hear some fair impressions with how it plays today compared to release. Thanks.

# 100 ugafandeardorff24 @ 11/26/08 11:00 AM

The only thing i want more out of this, and the next NCAA football game, is in dynasty mode, after a couple of seasons, i think they should give you an option to change up your uniform a little bit, maybe create a new uniform for that team......just throwing it out there, i think its a good idea.

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