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| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 248
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: football_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15599
Model: 15599
UPC: 014633155990
EAN: 0014633155990
ASIN: B0015E4G4G
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED, NEVER USED OR OPENED, SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FR CA
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 37
 Not For The Football Purists July 27, 2008
J. Edinger
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love football, been a fan for 20 years. I've played Madden and College football for over a decade so I know how its supposed to look and play. First off NCAA '09 looks great and moves great. The animation is top-notch, I'm always noticing little touches, beautiful for most part. The college team at EA surpasses even Madden when it comes to animation. But none of that matters unfortunately . This game is wholly unbalanced. Glitches abound, graphical annoyances. Nothing comes together as it should. EA doesn't seem to think there are any defensive battles in college football! There is no defense in this game. If the CPU doesn't advance the ball and is forced to punt it seems as if it is only that way because the CPU chooses it to be. The plays that the CPU chooses are just stupid. Run on first down with a loss of yardage, second down run for a loss, only to have their QB throw to a wide open receiver for a first down. Last years version was far from perfect, but I thought it was a very good foundation to built upon. If you are a football purist like me you will eventually come to hate this game. If only because there are so many good ideas like the pump fake being mapped the right analog stick or the great animation. EA continues to be a great disappointment me. Madden 09 had better be the second coming, or I will forever turn my back on EA. I might as well have took a lit match to three twenty dollar bills.
Got defense? This game sure doesn't. August 2, 2008
Matthew Aldieri (Nebraska)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
For a third straight year the idiots at EA have once again failed to produce a worthwile college football game. This year the biggest issue is that defense has been left entirely out of the game. The defensive secondary and the defensive line are basically a nonfactor in the game. Want to sack the quarterback? You're wasting your time. Defensive lines never get within five yards of any quarterback, no matter how awful the offensive line might be. There are two reasons for this: receivers run their routes impossibly fast, covering twenty yards in the blink of an eye, and also because it is impossible for your defensive lineman to get off their blocks. It literally is like running into a brick wall. No matter how much you try to get off the block the offensive lineman just grabs and holds on and won't let you move. Want to pick off a pass? Don't bother. The entire strategy for the secondary is to stand and watch a receiver catch the ball and then try to play catch up. But if once in a blue moon there is actually a defender near a receiver when the ball is thrown he inexplicably does some kind of asinine move that takes him as far away from the receiver as possible. Before you start saying that my defense must have just been bad, think again; my entire secondary was above an 85 overall ranking and my entire defensive line was above a 90 overall ranking. Even playing against teams like New Mexico State and San Jose State I never got any kind of pressure on the quarterback and never once had a knockdown or interception. But if you're the kind of person who has to win a game 49-45 every week then I guess this is the perfect game for you. And if you're the type of person who hates penalties then this REALLY is the game for you. I made it through an entire SEASON single digit penalties. If that were to ever happen in real life it would set some kind of record.
When I bought this game I really had high hopes for it, even though the games of the past two years have been just as bad. I guess it's just too much to ask for EA to actually make a quality football game. And why should they bother, since they own every license to every kind of pro and college football game. They know they have the market cornered so every year they produce a half-made game with no realism whatsoever and know that people are desperate enough for sports games that they'll still be bought. Well after three straight years of failure I'm done buying these games.
 Great game but... July 16, 2008
Moses Mcrae (Anchorage, AK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ok I was all hyped up to get this game and told myself buy it when the price goes down. I couldn't wait!! I got and rushed home to play it and upon playing I was awwed by the stunning graphics on both HD and regular TV's. The game play was just phenominal, the online dynasty is what I've been waitng for, etc. etc. I could go on but let's keep it short and simple. So why the 4 star rating if this game is so awsome? There is alot of repetative things again like commentary I mean c'mon I get tired of hearing Lee Corso ramble on and on about the same things I have been hearing for the last 5 years (Gooo with the option!) I mean c'mon change it up a little bit for pete's sake... Heck for our sake!
 Ok at Best July 24, 2008
Mark Dinapoli
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The games is only Ok, there is absolutely no defense in the game whatsoever as it is not surprising to consistently put up 60 points a game no matter who you play, even on the hardest difficulty.
NCAA Football 2009 does not revolutionize the sport as much as it does bring everything more together after all these years August 5, 2008
Michael Barrera (San Antonio, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's officially that time of year again...the dog days of summer are at an all-time boiling high, with sounds of kids playing in the streets, the water hose being sprayed around, the ice cream truck theme song blaring as it is being driven by that ex-convict psychopath who has a hot girlfriend and mosquitoes are sucking the living dickens out of you.
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Alright so maybe things are simple as they appear in those Blue Bell Ice Cream commercials but you know football season is around the corner when the Big Ten network starts flooding their no-brain station with constant "Greatest NCAA Football games ever" and Rivals.com list their "top 119 schools" countdown.
The main motto here is "Big Play Saturday," from that point it should be pretty secondary for gamers to get the idea of just how this game was going to play. It was going to be full of big plays and a wide-open attacking offense that we see so often in college football. But have they overdone it? After some careful time with this game, I think they just might have.
First off, there are some new additions that have been tacked on such as, the "breakaway engine." NCAA `09 has improved on the controls of its predecessor, making you feel like you're actually in control of the ball carrier. This year, running the football is about more than mashing the turbo button until you get to the corner, or jerking the juke stick in traffic.
Here me out here. You will be running lanes to get opened up inside, allowing backs to squirm their way to some nice gains. The cutback lanes are also open and if you're good enough, you can really rip off some big gains. I've only played with one elite back (Georgia's Knowshon Moreno) and was able to see the difference in his ability to a lesser back from another team, say a RB from Iowa. The running game aspect of this game is greatly improved. However, computer teams still don't run the ball effectively enough to counter-act you. That means you could resolve the whole thing with some minor slider tweaks but it won't entirely make things much better.
Next up is the passing game of NCAA Football 2009. I wasn't aware that there were 119 reincarnates of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the college ranks, but that appears to be the case. Every team I seemed face had completed nearly 70% of their passing attempts including a ridiculous 22-24 effort by Stanford's Tavita Pritchard. Also the scrambling quarterbacks seem extremely fast and have jukes and stiff arms beyond belief such as Washington's Jake Locker and Florida's Tim Tebow.
But it's not all bad, you see NCAA Football 2009 is an extremely fun game to play still, it's just these nuisances that could have been adjusted just kind of stick out like a bad pimple. The game makers did a really good job of delivering the whole "college atmosphere" to perfection. All the stadiums look authentic, there are cheerleaders both male and female and there are tons of players, camera men and other individuals littered across the screen to make the game's fields look extremely lively. There is just something beautiful about hearing Notre Dame's theme song in South Bend in the frosty cold or witnessing the cascading sunset glow red all over Neyland Stadium.
There are no real changes made to both the Dynasty and Campus Legend modes, as they remain the two prominent offline modes in NCAA Football. Recruiting is deeper than ever and is a big reason why I prefer NCAA Dynasties to Madden Franchises. For those who might find the recruiting too tedious, Campus Legend allows you to begin a career as a high school player. After combines and workouts, you may get the chance to play for the school of your dreams or settle for a much lesser prospective campus.
The biggest addition was the online dynasty mode which was just sheer geniuses all wrapped into one. Do 10 of your friends have the game? Then run a conference dynasty and every game on your schedule will be against one of your friends and you could schedule out of conference games so we can settle disputes like which conference is the most dominant. Maybe SEC is the best in reality but it's fun to have a PAC-10 school or someone from the MAC come in and upset no. 1 Georgia or LSU. It's a blast to play and the online connectivity was pretty smooth with no real traces of lag and not once has the game froze or I was booted out of a game, unless I was arguing with a homer.
NCAA Football 2009 is fun and is a lot more polished than previous incarnations with new animations, a much smoother feeling running game and the online stuff is a total blast. There are some dumb glitches that detract from the overall polish, my copy was warped as the field would soon just start twinkling and green and pink lines would fill up the whole field. I also wasn't crazy about the passing game which seem far too easy to score the `big money plays'. All in all, if you love collegiate pigskin football, NCAA Football 2009 is a winner once again improving instead of regressing from past years' examples.
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