NCAA Football 09 First Look

[RaychelSnr]

We have just posted our first look at NCAA Football 09 which discusses the feature list that was released yesterday by EA Sports.

[Scott]

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Good article...

[SageInfinite]

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Good read. I definitely enjoyed your take on the features list.

[mdgoalie37]

I just hope they don't overdo the dynamic attendance thing - there should never be empty seats at Notre Dame, Penn State, the Big House, etc. regardless of record.

I like the roster sharing thing,that will be nice.

[tomymac23]

I thought the article was great! I'm excited about the new sidelines.

I wanted to know about referees on the field that throw flags for rule infractions, the net behind the goal post, and yard markers with refs that come out and measure when youre tackled @ the first down marker.

[Hey_Rebby]

I'm hoping OS Sports or another member of the sports gaming media will ask these producers to describe their reaction to people that say all EA Sports does is recycle features that used to be in the older games. I would love to seem them answer that. The majority of the "new features" listed should have been in the game last year.

[RaychelSnr]

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I just hope they don't overdo the dynamic attendance thing - there should never be empty seats at Notre Dame, Penn State, the Big House, etc. regardless of record.

I like the roster sharing thing,that will be nice.

I would bet that it will be tied to prestige with 5 and 6 star type of teams being perennially full in terms of attendance. You never really saw Michigan go below 5 stars in previous games so I'd bet that's how its done as long as that's what they mean by dynamic crowds

[DLaren]

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What are your most anticipated features?

My most anticipated features have yet to be announced (create-a-team, slide protection, formation-subs, ect), but on that list I'm mostly looking forward to the revamped college atmosphere.

What I'm most concerned about is the new, "wide open" gameplay.
"Bigger holes, cutback lanes, and open receivers, making the game feel more wide open than ever before."


I'm all for opening the game up a bit, but I hope this new focus doesn't make it impossible to play solid defense if you have the appropriate personel.

In NCAA'08 I was able to lead the nation in defense in my first few years while playing with Stanford (that shouldn't happen), so I can see why there might be a need to make the offenses more potent. But if I build a program with studs on defense, I'm hoping that having a top-level defense is still attainable.

[Hammerhunker]

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Not bad. I am wondering if there will be more camera angles available? I too hope for the return of create a school.

[countryboy]

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Nice article. I am looking forward to this game.

[Wjkporter]

I hoping to hear Team sliders,Better Playbooks...

[grunt]

Hope we can here more on the game play improvements vs features.

[MSchneider84]

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Hopefully formation subs make it into the game.

[janglar]

I hope for formation subs and player package subs. Another one I would like to see someday is the ability to have available duplicate number sets on your team. EA includes only a small handful of only well known stars on good teams to have duplicates, but when you try top update other players on that team or any other team you can only use one number per team. As a safeguard to the purists of the rules (Including me as a 25 year season ticket holder and Ath Dept volunteer), the A.I. will never allow 2 of the same numbers on the field during a substitution sub-menu with a warning prompt. With that safeguard A.I. in place, I see no reason why every team shouldn't be able to have multiple sets of duplicate numbers that coincide with a growing trend in today's college football. The crowd's need to be dynamic, because there is no way FIU's 1/8 full stadium during a 4th quarter blowout in real life is full and rocking during a similair senario in the game and is somehow magically the same as Oregon's Autzen Stadium which is always sold-out and full to the end while being ear-splitting during timeouts and warmups.

[Kramer5150]

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Hope we can here more on the game play improvements vs features.

My thoughts exactly.