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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. First off, the graphics are really nice. Very sleek and clean. The gameplay is fast and easy to pick up, especially if you’re used to playing Madden. The time it takes to play a full game on the default settings seems pretty decent for me (ie, it won’t take you an hour to knock out a game). Next I love the customization ability on this game. You can create your own College by using EA’s Teambuilder website. Pick out your stadium, pick out your uniforms (at least 50 choices there), pick out your colors, upload your own log. I love that level of customization and hope that will be a feature that EA uses in all of their sports games going forward (especially FIFA). I like that you can also customize your players easily online in the Teambuilder site instead of using the controller. Juice up their stats. Change them all to Freshman if you like. Change their names manually or have them randomly created. If it’s a common name, the announcers will pronounce it during the game commentary too. Then you can swap your made-up school with another existing school, and start a Dynasty that goes year after year (not sure how far out it runs). You can customize your non-conference games to adjust your strength of schedule. So I must say I really love that piece of the game. The recruiting in the Dynasty mode is a bit manually intensive though. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I personally kind of like it, but if you were only interested in the actual gameplaying of the dynasty, then you may be upset at how much time it requires. Having played a couple seasons tweaking my strategy, it does require some devotion. You can’t really auto-simulate it, or at least, not if you want a good freshman recruiting class. I turned off all of the Helper Options, which helps give you more control. I also limited myself to about 20 prospects, as this helps keep the board from being uncluttered. I preferably only add guys who have you in their Top 3 initially. I also found that if you wait around until mid-season, you can start recruiting some Junior-College (JUCO) transfers since they seem to wait until longer in the year to sign. The recruiting piece almost feels like a Role-Playing-Game (RPG). You check back each week to see if you’ve moved up on their list, or you get upset if they committed to someone else after you wasted hours of recruiting time on them. If you want to do a good job at it, it’ll probably take as long each week in recruiting as it does to play the week’s given game. I haven’t tried online dynasty against others yet. Overall though, I think NCAA Football 11 is a really good football game. I agree with a previous reviewer who said that now NCAA Football doesn’t feel like Madden’s poor, red-headed step-child. |
Solid