NCAA Basketball 09 Community Event Recaps
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While there are still details to be revealed about NCAA Basketball 09 the recent community event offered a good opportunity to get a feel for how the game is shaping up and the direction EA Sports is taking the franchise. Overall it sounds as if the gameplay will be vastly improved and the new tempo feature will deliver, however the game is lacking the pull of a secondary mode (such as Be A Pro) and online play will be deficient.
Two write-ups which cover most everything there is to know can be found at NCAA Strategies and 5WG. Both sites broke their coverage down into multiple articles which I’ve linked to below. If you are at all interested in the game they are worth checking out.
NCAA Strategies: Part One – Part Two – Part Three
5WG: Part One – Part Two – Part Three
Will this be enough to pull in the deserted College Hoops fans? It’s tough to say at this point. Solidifying the gameplay and making it fun is certainly crucial to doing that but there still seems to be a lot missing. The college basketball games have never sold all that well so it’ll be interesting to see if it picks up a good deal of those CH consumers or if there just isn’t that much draw to the game for it to make much of a difference.
September 22, 2008 at 8:56 am
Might sound improved but need to see it first..
September 22, 2008 at 8:59 am
Another game with no trophies for PS3, I knew I shouldve gotten a Xbox360. Why do they do this to Sony supporters? Same thing with demos.. Im really getting tired with Sony and EAsports.
September 22, 2008 at 10:22 am
LOL @ You buying a PS3.
September 22, 2008 at 11:22 am
[quote comment="37598"]LOL @ You buying a PS3.[/quote]
LOL @ the J-E-T-S
September 22, 2008 at 11:23 am
i know a lot of people like to play online and some like the be a pro mode but i could care less about that,i am glad EA is putting the time into improveing the gameplay this year than once they get that to where it should be they will have the time to put those modes into next years game.
September 22, 2008 at 12:04 pm
LET’S GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm
fam SERIOUSLY trophies
how old R you ONLY trophies that matter R da 1’s in REAL LIFE 4get dat virtual ISH
join a team & win & you’ll get TROPHIES @ least I did
September 22, 2008 at 12:59 pm
by the way I luv my PS3
nice piece of hardware
& I made a nice lil flip of dem when it 1st came out 2 get my $$$ right
September 22, 2008 at 1:02 pm
[quote comment="37610"]i know a lot of people like to play online and some like the be a pro mode but i could care less about that,i am glad EA is putting the time into improveing the gameplay this year than once they get that to where it should be they will have the time to put those modes into next years game.[/quote]
Amen brotha!
September 22, 2008 at 1:40 pm
[quote comment="37617"]LET’S GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]
yessssir lets go BILLS!!! 3 n 0… playoff bound this year!
September 22, 2008 at 2:14 pm
still cant believe love is on the cover…
September 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm
pasta, any word on the madden and head coach patches that r supposed to come out today
September 22, 2008 at 3:59 pm
just curious, without a college basketball game for nba 2k9, will there be a way to bring in college players in the association mode without someone having to manually create them?
September 22, 2008 at 4:05 pm
madden patch?
September 22, 2008 at 4:15 pm
[quote comment="37660"]madden patch?[/quote]
5am ET/2am PT it should be out. (Tuesday morning)
September 22, 2008 at 4:25 pm
is that time the same for head coach
September 22, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Where do you go to download the patches for madden?
September 22, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Ok thanks Pasta.
[quote comment="37665"]Where do you go to download the patches for madden?[/quote]
Just turn on your console while connected to xbox live put madden in the system and a screen will pop up telling you that there is an update available…do you want to download now? Just say yes.
September 22, 2008 at 5:31 pm
[quote comment="37680"]Ok thanks Pasta.
[quote comment="37665"]Where do you go to download the patches for madden?[/quote]
Just turn on your console while connected to xbox live put madden in the system and a screen will pop up telling you that there is an update available…do you want to download now? Just say yes.[/quote]
I have PS3
September 22, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Then I don’t know, sorry.
September 22, 2008 at 6:28 pm
[quote comment="37661"][quote comment="37660"]madden patch?[/quote]
5am ET/2am PT it should be out. (Tuesday morning)[/quote]
Who is up that early? seriously.. why dont they just say tomorrow morning…
September 22, 2008 at 9:59 pm
im sorry pasta if you already answered this, but from looks of it this topic is not getting enough attention, a lot of us want to know if there is going to be a way to import college players through the nba draft into live 09? you said earlier that it was a no, but we wanna know why thats the case with ea. and also if 2k has metioned anything about this feature.
thanks from me and everyone else that whats to know.
September 22, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Any word on the Facebreaker sales yet. As far as this game is concerned. Im sticking with CH 2k8. EA’s college ball games suck, no matter how many times they change the name/brand.
September 23, 2008 at 5:50 am
[quote comment="37722"]im sorry pasta if you already answered this, but from looks of it this topic is not getting enough attention, a lot of us want to know if there is going to be a way to import college players through the nba draft into live 09? you said earlier that it was a no, but we wanna know why thats the case with ea. and also if 2k has metioned anything about this feature.
thanks from me and everyone else that whats to know.[/quote]
No they didn’t implement that for NCAA to Live. I seriously doubt CH 2K8 will transfer to NBA 2K9. If it was possible I think we would’ve heard of it by now.
[quote comment="37726"]Any word on the Facebreaker sales yet. As far as this game is concerned. Im sticking with CH 2k8. EA’s college ball games suck, no matter how many times they change the name/brand.[/quote]
NPD doesnt come out until the second Thursday of every month. So still a few weeks away from finding out how it is faring. I don’t get the sense it is doing well but it is sometimes hard to gauge a game that is targeted at a different type of crowd.
October 28, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Still no mention if every team was included, though I suppose their clearing out rivalries and updating those, maybe that shows they did some work on the team front. I’d be anxious to see if Northern Colorado and the dozen or so others that were left out of last year’s version (and previous versions) are included this year.