NCAA Football 2005

THE GOOD:
Real NCAA schools, stadiums, logos, and more. Realistic graphics and gameplay. Includes major 1-A, 1-AA, and historic teams. Lots of game modes. Good play-by-play. Multiplayer and online play.

THE BAD:
Slightly tight controls. Play-by-play quickly gets repetitive.

SUMMARY:
NCAA Football 2005 represent's EA's latest effort in the excellent series, giving armchair QBs everywhere the chance to take virtual control of their alma mater and keep the rivalries going long after bowl season ends. There are plenty of ways to do it here between simple arcade-style games, more realistic simulations, Dynasty mode, and online play, just to name a few ways.
Despite some rough edges on the player models and a kinda static crowd, the graphics are both outstanding and realistic. Great attention to detail shows in accurate recreation of fields and team logos, and the animation is very smooth. The crowd shots show nice emotion and good details but...

THE GOOD:
TO MANY TEAMS TO CHOOSE FROM!
Franchisee mode is more addictive then pro leagues
battle songs from your favorite colleges play during menu's.
realtime score updates during your games in franchisee mode to help when keeping track of the other hundreds of games in the ncaa.

THE BAD:
Graphics are simple but not bad. I dont play games to look at stadiums. WIND is killer and seems to be to effect gameplay sometimes to much. be careful for 20-25mph winds on rare occasions.

SUMMARY:
Most important TEAMS TEAMS TEAMS with the option of setting "EVEN TEAMS" pregame. Tons of school battle songs. Great franchise play as well as historic battles. Lots of things to do/play/try out. Laidback as compared to other football titles including Espn 2k5, Madden2k5. Glad i got this on the used table as its replaced my gametime spent on espn 2k5 and other sports...

THE GOOD:
the graphics and new play schemes are well done as well as the intense crowd noises with the new "stadium pulse". it relaly makes me feel like jumping out of my seat and getting in on the action.

THE BAD:
passing is much more difficult with this game. Recievers need much work, as well as the audience.

SUMMARY:
When I started things off in dynasty mode I was very happy with the game play and BCS rankings (not much to say in reality though . Climbing to the top and being involved in the hiesman race with up-to-date accurate stats and scores. I also enjoyed how realistic some of the scores are based on the school's greatness. For example, USC beating some other crap college without the slightest difficulty without upset, it makes sense. However, I wish after winning an amount of games your stadium pulse meter goes up. I noticed that for seasons, no matter how good you do, your stadium does...