EA Sports has announced that Boston College QB Matt Ryan has been chosen for the cover of NCAA Football 09 on the PS3. Each console's version has their own cover athlete this year.
As GamePolitics has reported, Electronic Arts may soon face a lawsuit by retired NFL players who believe their likenesses were unlawfully incorporated into EA's best-selling Madden game. But former college players now want their slice of EA's money pie as well.
SF Weekly reports that a one-time college quarterback is now making the same claim as NFL retirees in regard to EA's popular NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball franchises. Samuel Keller (left), formerly of Arizona State and Nebraska, is the lead plaintiff in the class action suit.
But College athletes aren't allowed to be payed. A roster download is done by third parties, and merely makes renaming every player in the game much, much quicker. Which is what many gamers will do anyway.
And the players aren't always right anyway. Austin English (#33) from OU is black in NCAA 2008, but is clearly white in real life.
I don't know what he wants EA to do, they aren't allowed to pay the players, and gamers want to play as the players. It's a lose-lose.
The NCAA Football 09 $1,000,000 Challenge, sponsored by House-Kidder Entertainment, is a new nationwide Tournament that will allow U.S. video gamers to compete using the NCAA Football 09 video game on the Xbox 360 for a Grand Prize that could be as much as $1,000,000.
Operation Sports' Wil McCombs examines NCAA Football 09's recruiting model and gives suggestions on how to improve it for NCAA Football 10.
Excerpt: "The main system 'improvements' in '09 were, in my opinion, aimed in the wrong direction. Last year, EA developers presented gamers with ways to streamline the process via features like Quick Call and CPU assistance. Sadly, many sports games -- particularly EA Sports games -- yearn for the casual gamer, and these new tweaks made it nauseatingly evident. Considering the over-the-top, hardcore nature of most college football fans (and NCAA gamers), it seems counter-productive to dumb down the product for the masses, at least in this department."
Matt Ryan was one of the premier college quarterbacks this year. Dark Sniper hopes a team such as Atlanta picks him up as they are in need of a true QB and a decent pocket passer for a change.
Furthermore, Matt Ryan resembles greatness and a promising future. Something the PLAYSTATION® 3 represents as well. With the preferred design of the 13 year old Playstation controller, gamers will feel right at home enjoying 60fps College Football action on their PLAYSTATION® 3.
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Another thing to mention is Matt Ryan did play for Boston College, their head coach Jeff Jagodinski happens to be the former offensive coordinator for Dark Sniper's favorite team, Green Bay Packers. When he came to Green Bay and Boston College, he implemented the Zone Blocking Scheme.
Atlanta is one of the first teams to run this type of blocking so Matt Ryan should feel right at home. In regards to their running game, Michael Turner and Jerious Norwood have the potential to become a dynamic 1-2 duo in this league. They have the elusiveness and agility to play in the one-cut and go demands of the Zone Blocking Scheme.
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