[Husker] EA Sports NCAA Football

[Nick Chevance]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Shawn <shawnsherlock at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Having recently purchased a PS2 does anyone have any suggestions which year to buy of EA Sports NCAA Football?  Coming off a 5 win season I am not sure the most recent one would be that good for a Cornhusker fan.

Shawn -

Being a big fan of the EA NCAA Football game, I'm just finishing up a
20 year stint of being the Nebraska Coach in the 2004 version (Dynasty
mode) for Gamecube.  I've also done several years in the 2005 version,
and then they stopped making them for the GC.  I just yesterday
purchased the '08 game for the Wii and I'm anxious to see how to play
in that environment.

It seems to me, just from viewing other year's versions on other
systems (PS2, PS3, XBox) that the games gets more 'personalized' as it
gets older.  That means to me that there is much more individual
abilities for players that seems to avoid the aspects of team play.
You can get skilled position players to do all sorts of things, but
some things don't seem to get fixed that annoy me.  The AI is pretty
impressive, but I'm always frustrated by my weakside defensive tackle
walking through the Oline before the snap of the ball just to force me
into a time out or a 5 yard penalty on me.  Or how my running back
tends to hang up on the line, unable to move the offensive linemen in
his way when they are locked up on a block.  Or despite the fact that
I took the 2004 Husker team and transformed it to a balanced throw and
run offense in 20 years, but I still can't get my QB to throw any
better than about 40-45% for a season.  And I'd just love it if my
pulling guard would actually knock down a DB or a linebacker on the
counter run.  But at least in the newer versions, your back or
receiver can certainly dance and spike the ball at the end of a play
(which is the part of football I like least).

The graphics are much better in the new games, the game play does
improve, but I still see less work being done on line play, for
instance, and more being done on hot dogging.  So, the least
adulterated version in my mind is the 2004 version, but you may be
disappointed with relatively lower level graphics.  By the way, I've
turned off Corso and Herbstreit - they've annoyed me more than I can
stand anymore.

Hope this helps, probably not.

Nick
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