NCAA Football 09 features
April 2, 2008 by pastapadre
EA Sports has posted some of the features of NCAA Football 09 on the game’s official website. More details on these are promised in the coming weeks but for now we have an extensive feature list.
It is definitely exciting to hear about the return of home field advantage, online dynasty, and roster sharing. Those are just a couple of the features mentioned. Continue on to view the full list.
Wide Open and Authentic College Style Gameplay
* Bigger holes, cutback lanes, and open receivers, making the game feel more wide open than ever before
* Directional pump fake on the R stick
* New college specific tackling engineHome of the 12th Man and Home Field Advantage with new mini-game components
* Pre-play confusion and difficulty making adjustments when on the road against tough teams
* All new toughest places to play with dynamic rankingsAll-new Mascot Mode with User Controlled Celebrations
* Mascot Games
* Interactive TD celebrationsCollege Atmosphere
* All-new Dynamic Crowd System
* College sidelines are packed with additional players, mascots, cheerleaders, and more
* All-new authentic fields with new textures, lighting, and field degradation
* New college player models, including more than 50 alternate uniforms
* User Customizable Stadium Sounds & Music
* Breakaway crowd reactionsDepth & Innovation
* Online Dynasty is here!!!
* Roster file sharing online
* Improved recruiting system in Dynasty mode highlighting ease and accessibility
* New post game presentation and play by play commentary
* 1-4 player offline co-op
* Return missed field goals
* Bluff your play art to confuse opponents
* Formation audibles
* Smart routes
* Bobble catches
* Better passing control
* Post play continuation
* All-New Mini Games
* Random play selection in practice mode
* Quick replay
* CPU vs. CPU (watch mode)
* Smooth 60 FPS on PS3
* Even teams option in play now
The actual list looks impressive, have to see it in motion and in the game to make a judgement
nice i like that missed field goal return hopefully they remember to put that into madden also so devin hester can return some
CPU vs. CPU (watch mode)!! Woo-hoo!! Not a big fan of features that have been in the series prior to the next-gen titles being considered “features”, but I’m glad to see EA beginning to add some of these missing features to next-gen.
As I think has been clear from the beginning (of next-gen, at least), the folks behind NCAA are a hell of a lot more competent than those behind Madden, that’s for sure.
game sounds awesome so far
Sounds good but talk is talk.
One feature I would love to see is bad snaps and QB exchanges.
A focus on gameplay? UnEAlike. This list looks almost too good to be true (of course online dynasty wont work). I dont really get why they promote 50 alternate uniforms as some sort of accomplishment though. And I think the question we all want to know is when the ultra-realistic spectacular catch comes to NCAA.
wow these features are really impressive the sidelines looking more realistic nd the missed field goals returns is a really good thing i think a lot of users will find that interseting and i personally love the bobbled catches madden 09 relly needs to do the same
Why do they still have the play calling scren the same. They need to go back to how it was on the las-gen console other than that everything else sounds like another buy for me when it is released in August
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Pasta i was suprised the Division 2 teams like Delaware and Appalachen State have yet to be mentioned can you find out if thse schools made it ih as this would be a vary good thing if there ih thanks man
holy crap, this is gonna be sick
I just hope that the O-line finally creates a pocket and they scrap the robotic QB dropback animation. But from the early builds of the game, it seems that they didn’t fix neither.
online dynasty? hmmmmmm…………
Hooray! I feel giddy as a schoolgirl.
Any 3 on 3 online like hockey and basketball?????
I hope EA can back up all these claims. Every year their footballs games are gonna be great but they turn out to be the same ol’ crap from the previous year with a updated roster.
When they announced the wii cover it said their would be over 200 hundred teams on the game so I would think they would have 1-aa teams.
Formation audibles have been sorely missed in Next Gen. Glad to see they finally put it in. I have to assume madden has it back too.
vikingsfanatic wrote:
That was for the Wii, which is a PS2 port. There are no 1-AA teams for the 360 or PS3. Its a completely different engine, and version of the game. 1-AA teams are on the PS2 version and so therefore got ported to the Wii version.
I like everything Ive read. BUT!!!!! Where’s Creat a Team?
Dang! online dynasty! i wonder how deep it is. makes me wonder what is next…..
Create-a-Team?
Division II?
yo pasta how will the online dynasty actually work
Why is there nothing about the campus legend mode?
Honestly I’m the most excited about Roster sharing online. College Hoops 2K8 had that and it made it really easy to get all those names in for the players. I know a lot (probably most) of you guys have Datel XChange or something similar to that to get rosters from your PC to Xbox or PS3. However for those of us without we can finally get those rosters.
I’m a litle disappointed because I was hping they would add a dynasty facilities and stadium upgrade on the game for when you built a team up. I wonder if extra jerseys will be available for download?
Juan Pablo wrote:
I definatley agree with you they should have that
Awesome!… COOP is BACK!… i can rest in peace now.
Hey all, I just thought I would give me 5 cents. I have been playinhg madden and ncaa since day 1, and I prefer NCAA over madden still to this day. I like what I see in the features list, I agree, create a team should be there, hopefully it will be. If you havent seen a small clip of NCAA and some of the moves they are creating, then take a peek at this I found on gamersters.com
http://www.gamerosters.com/nca.....-news.html
Looking forward to the weeks to come, keep teasin us, fottball 24/7 fellas!!
game sounds tight, these features would definitely make this game that much better…and finally an online dynasty, more crowd reaction, etc..nothing wrong with pulling some things from the old days EA
Brandon wrote:
Well judging by the article they will.
* Roster file sharing online
Juan Pablo wrote:
yeah am very exited about this feature to no more making it a hustle to get the rosters.and everything else sounds great so i cant wait for this game sounds good this year EA please don disappoint me again
When they say online “dynastys” do they mean like multiple years or just one season ala 2k leagues. I hope they mean multi years but I really hope they bring online franchise to madden. It would be amazing to have trades, free agents, draft, scouting, salary cap….but I dont think they could actual make it work well. Still put it in and with the right group of guys it could be amazing!!
Sounds great
Are those features from next gen or all systems or the wii………………… I hope it’s the wii
soonerhomie12 wrote:
360/ps3 only. The wii version will be more or less a port of the ps2 version.
coogrfan said
am April 3 2008 @ 7:12 am Quote
soonerhomie12 wrote:
Are those features from next gen or all systems or the wii………………… I hope it’s the wii
360/ps3 only. The wii version will be more or less a port of the ps2 version.
Where is your proof? Show me where it actually say’s it won’t be on the 360 or ps3.
I can pretty much guarantee many of these are 360/PS3 specific. Online dynasties, roster sharing, ect. This is basically a 360/PS3 specific features list. That doesn’t mean the Wii/PS2 won’t have some of these things too but this list isn’t intended as a description of those versions.
Some interesting features, but a lot of them were already on the last-gen. This continues EA’s cycle of pulling features from the game and then adding them in later for a bullet point on the box.
Online roster file sharing is probably the coolest feature, though it is really easy on the PS3 anyway, so it isn’t as big of a deal there.
Vikingsfanatic wrote:
Umm…the 07/08 wii versions of Madden weren’t proof enough?
Pasta what about Campus Legend… they didn’t nix that did they ??
I am not going to get excited until I see Division II teams and create-a-team.
leglockfan wrote:
Campus Legend will be back yes, its just not on this list.
Good news about CPU v CPU being back…hopefully this extends to being able to view any game from any side’s schedule during franchise play and watch it as a cpu v cpu match.
Bowl patches, eye black, clear visors, non generic bowl enzones, and D1AA + Ivy teams are what I’m holding out for…then I get excited.
It’s funny how they just add features that they stripped out when this series hit 360/ps3 and try to make them sound like they are new.
pasta do you have any news on D1-AA teams on next gen?
Brian wrote:
Haven’t heard anything on that. There could be more features/additions announced still. I just don’t get the feeling that will be one of them. Hopefully I’m wrong on that though cause it would be nice to have them in.
pastapadre wrote:
Why would they give them to us this year? They need to save something to be the headliner for NCAA 2010.
pastapadre wrote:
That’s delicious! I hope they made a few adjustments on it but others than that im ready to crank out 4, 8, or 12 years in this lovely mode
Wowie Wow Guy! Guy! Guy! N00b!
1. No mention of ESPN presentation.
2. No mention of Division 1-AA Teams or FCS Teams
3. Looks like defense is getting thrown out the window
4. College Atmosphere is an excuse rather than a feature instead of putting in ESPN presentation
5. Post Game Presenation and New Play by Play? Hope they didn’t make it worse than it is now. Better still have Corso and herbstreit.
6. No mention of PRE GAME SHOW or HALFTIME SHOW. If the Post game is anything like Madden 08 was, forget it.
7. I don’t see with all they mention going on at one time that this game is going to run as smooth as it did last year
8. Mascot Games are useless, give me ESPN presentation
9. Any mini game is useless. Give me Espn Presentation
10. Home Field Advantage, another excuse rather than a feature instead of putting in ESPN presentation
11. New Breakaway system, same as this year, excuse rather than feature, give me ESPN presentation.
Pasta any online team play like in nba and nhl thanks?
deltroy wrote:
I don’t think we’ll be seeing that in the football games this year.
pastapadre wrote:
Do you know if they have plans for the future?
Return missed field goals…YES!
I hope they have online leagues in madden
I wish that the wii had a ncaa version of its own instead of being a ps2 port. I think it will be soon because this is probably the ps2’s last yer with the ncaa franchise.
That might just put Ncaa 09 over the top for me i am a huge fan of the game already but that probably does it for me the game will be amazing
soonerhomie12 wrote:
At least Wii gets 1-AA. So damn stupid that the “superior” powerful consoles after THREE years still don’t have them. Bulls**t.
I agree
This would be a flat out joke if they still can’t get FCS teams after the renaissance season that the lower division produced last year. It’s sad really. I actually thought it would be a shoe-in by now.
pasta will they have the rest of the D-1 schools stadiums this year?
pasta do u know anuthing about added features or anything to campus legend yet?
i wish they had create a playbook
Pasta when do you think they will have videos and more screenshots????????
Brandon wrote:
nothing specific yet
Michael wrote:
not sure if we’ll see more tomorrow, but I wouldn’t be surprised to get some more in the next few weeks.
Brian wrote:
I know someone that worked for a FCS team and he said that when EA contacted him, they only were going to include FCS teams in the Wii and PS2 game.
Thanks EA for pushing out the little guys. The little guys that beat top 5 BCS teams.
Appalachian rules all
please have bowl patches on jersey,s and team specific endzones during bowl games
Armanti Edwards (FCS QB) = real life Heisman candidate
not include in the game = terrible college football sim
make bowl games feel different from other regular season games especially national championship game
After all that has happened with the FCS over FBS upsets, and the outcry to add FCS teams, you’d think that those teams would be in the game. In all honesty, who the hell cares about a flippin’ mascot game for Christ’s sake? What a waste of programming time. This will be the third year in a row I will not buy this game due to FCS teams not being included in the next gen games. I can say the same for many many other gamers. Just because they are “small” schools doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of fans. There are a significant number of fans that would buy this game if FCS teams were in it.
I just got to put my two cents in. You see wins from Appalachian state over Michigan, South Dakota State over Minnesota and Central Michigan and Delaware over Navy (three of the four FBS teams went to a bowl game). You would think that the folks at EA would think maybe its time to replace the FCS Southeast and FCS Northwest and include all 123 FCS teams from 15 conferences and even the independent teams but No. Now the App fans and the Delaware fans with a PS3 or Xbox360s will just have to wait another year. I dont even know which is worse not being on a next gen console or having 79 FCS teams on the PS2 or Xbox with outdated info on the school such as logos,Unis,players,conference (atlantic 10 is now the colonal), generic stadiums,etc.
A smooth 60 FPS for the PS3 is a big deal that nobody has mentioned. Gonna make online play alot better connection wise. I’m praying they make Madden 09 60 FPS for PS3 also. Pasta heard anything about Madden on PS3 getting a 60 fps to?
The main thing I want is Create-A-School, so I’m sad to see that not here…
Steve wrote:
I’d safe its safe to assume it will be.
I would love to see Home Field Advantage in Madden but no since the Giants won 11 on the road we can’t get it, lame.
Pasta, that is good to hear. Glad to see all those features returning.
Which leads me to a question, although I know this topic is NCAA.
Since NCAA features, etc., has mostly been “expect this” in the next Madden product, what are the chances that we can expect to see all those features in NCAA returning to Madden ‘09, especially since both development teams now reside under the same roof at Tiburon?
Thanks.
PTR
poundtherock wrote:
Its a good question but one I don’t really have much of an answer to at this point. Generally you see new features on a yearly basis that differentiate between the two titles. So last year NCAA got the video/screen uploading and Madden didn’t for example.
I think it’ll probably be along those lines where Madden will may have some of the same new features (lets say the returning missed FGs would be pretty likely) but others will stay separate. Online dynasty for example seems like a better fit for NCAA than Madden. My interview with Peter Moore makes it seem unlikely Madden will get any sort of home field advantage. But in their places there will be other things to look forward to I’m sure.
pastapadre wrote:
Thanks. I know you will be one of the first to let us know how it all shakes out.
60 fps on ps3? what about 360? ps3 is trash!
if there’s anyway to go back to the old graphics from ncaa ‘07 on the next-gen consoles, they should attempt it again this year. i know last year they said there’s really no way you can have both, but half way would be better than what they had in ncaa ‘08. and i would love to see create-a-school again. and what’s the deal with the mascot games? i don’t really know much about those but if they are what i think they are (meaning football games played with mascots) then they definitely shouldn’t put that on there. there’s a lot of people on here that are saying they shouldn’t put that on there, so i’m just gonna agree with them since it seems to be a bad idea. but everything else seems ok. and someone mentioned ESPN presentation, that would be nice, but i’m sure it’s got something to do with having management rights from ESPN to do that. so EA should talk it up a little with ESPN and get something going, cause an ESPN presentation with lee corso and herbstreit would be nice.
this game is going to be sick, and for all u doubters i think their serious about this years features
Is the interactive touchdown celebrations gonna be similar to ESPN NFL 2k5’s, where you set what celebration you what to a specific button?
THE VIDEO GAME GODS HAVE ANSWERED MY PRAYERS….CPU VS CPU FOR THOSE OF US THAT SOMETIMES LIKE TO SET GAMES UP AND WATCH THEM…Oh thank you EA…you finally camr through….now one more thing…MAKE USC’S band play “conquest” at the end of another victory…i am soo excited…i wonder if madden will have this feature….
HOW HARD IS IT TO ADD THE FCS TEAMS?! Seriously, after the biggest upset in college football history, you’d think that EA might have had the brains to think, “Hey, maybe we should include teams like Appalachian State in this game!” But no, EA continues its traditional lazy approach to making games. I know I’m never buying another NCAA Football game until they add this simple feature. Hell, where’s Create-A-School?
EA sucks.
AK wrote:
Quoted for truth.
Hey Pasta, i read the article on the game’s official site and noticed it says “60 FPS on PS3″, what about xbox 360???
Wasn’t it 60FPS on 360 last year? If so, they have no reason to talk about it this year. They’re just announcing they finally caught up on PS3.
Oh wow lol, didn’t even realize that. So last year’s PS3 version didn’t run @ 60 FPS?
Hacksaw Jim Thuggan wrote:
Almost positive that PS3 only had 30 FPS for NCAA &