Monday, July 9, 2012

Launch Station: NCAA Football 13

It is that season again.  Time for all the big sports games to all have their annual release.  First up is NCAA Football 13, which releases tomorrow followed by Madden NFL 13 next month and NHL 13 and FIFA 13 both in September.  Sports fans have a busy couple of months if they are planning to buy each EA Sports release.

Being an annual game, NCAA Football is EA Sports' simulation of the insanely popular sport of college football.  While developed by the same studio as Madden, EA Tiburon, NCAA Football has a few subtle differences that make it play different than EA's football juggernaut.  Much like the subtle differences between college and professional football.  The biggest enhancements to the core game of NCAA Football all surrounds the quarterback position.  EA has added over 420 new animations for the quarterback, 20 new quarterback dropback moves, a new passing system and numerous new sack avoidance moves.  The AI on both sides of the line has been improved.  Wide receivers have better awareness, which comes in the way of a little icon above each receiver that shows the player the level of readiness a receiver has as they look for the ball.  On defence, there are no more blind swats as the blockers will have to see the ball before actually making their move.  NCAA Football 13 also sees improvements to presentation, Dynasty mode and the Road to Glory mode.  EA Tiburon has also added the new Heisman Challenge mode, where players choose a previous Heisman Trophy winner and take part in challenges to match his award-winning performances in order to win the Heisman Trophy again.

I do enjoy sports games from time to time, but I have never been a big enough sports fan, other than wrestling, to pick up the game each and every year.  I do not mind picking past entries of sports game as they are much cheaper and play more or less the same or maybe even better than the current games,  but I am not the target audience for many of these sports games, NCAA Football 13 included.  For the gamers that love buying these games each and every year, NCAA Football 13 will be another solid entry in the NCAA Football series.  It will keep sports gamers tided over until Madden hits store shelves in late August.

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