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GameArgus Review: NCAA Football 09

GameArgus writes: "Hardcore fans of college football know the idea of an incoming prospect not living up to the hype all too well. At first their workout numbers look good, they say all the right things, and eventually even start to generate a positive buzz from the fans that have checked him out. However, as training camp comes along and everything is seemingly going as planned you start to notice things unravel. He shows flashes of brilliance at times, but most of that's after he's spent all day in the trainers room and lost a week's worth of practice from being hurt all of the time.

In many ways, these same feelings are conveyed while playing NCAA Football 09. While it certainly plays a decent game of football to the average onlooker, digging a little deeper reveals that much of its core isn't ready to step on the field full-time and make the impact it's capable of."

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NCAA Football Lawsuit Brings More Legal Trouble for EA Sports

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.

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shadow27975467d ago

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.

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House-Kidder Entertainment Announces U.S. Video Game Tournament Offering $1,000,000 Prize

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.

OpSports: What NCAA Recruiting Should Be

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."

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