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EA Sports' NCAA Football stakes it's claim as the best college football game ever. With their college football series debut on the PlayStation 2 platform EA leaves all challengers in the dust. All the thrills and intensity of the college gridiron are wrapped into a tight package in NCAA Football 2002. This game features 144 Division I-A and I-AA teams (unfortunately now MSU Cowboys) and 26 Bowl games. It is the only college game with BCS standings and the Sears Trophy. Plus, you get an amazingly deep Dynasty mode, with in-depth recruiting and statistics for each and every team and player.

The game has tons of features from exhibition play, season play, to a dynasty mode where you take over a team, and control every aspect right down to recruiting. You can even have your prize recruits compete to become an All-American or battle for the Heisman Trophy. You can choose from hundreds of team playbooks featuring tons of plays, on the sidelines are team mascots cheering on their teams, oddly enough no cheer leaders though. Taking a page from the Madden book, the game features a Campus Challenge in which you earn points for game play goals to unlock secret teams and cards, which adds plenty of replay ability.

As for as actual game play the game is based on the Madden engine game engine. The AI has been tweaked a bit for the college game and numerous additional catch animations, tackle animations and the like have been added. The defense is better, and the Cornerbacks actually cover the WRs, so you don't get burned for 300+ yards every game. You have to play around with the AI sliders until you get it how you like it, but after that, it is near perfect. There are a little too many fumbles, and the CPU still doesn't run enough when they get behind. But, the game play is even more realistic than Madden, and very enjoyable.

Best football graphics ever. The players are a little more detailed than Madden (if you can imagine that) the stumpiness of the players has been fixed. Players are accurately modeled in this game. The stadiums look fantastic, are very realistic, fans are dressed in team colors and the bands are placed exactly where they are in real life, and if the game is a blowout the stadium actually starts to empty out before the game is over. On the field you can actually see the conference patches on the players jerseys, decals on the helmets (the players earn them with big plays), cleats with spikes when you play on grass, turf shoes when you play on turf, uniforms that get dirty. When is snows the snow actually begins to pile up on the field in places that haven't been run on in a while AMAZING! You can edit and create your players and put cool accessories on them (visors, tape various parts of the body, neck rolls, long sleeve shirts under jerseys. you can change their body mass, musculature, you name it you can do it.

The commentary and presentation of the game is probably the best I have ever seen. Before each game, is like an actual football telecast. Where the three man booth, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, and play by play man Brad Nessler, preview the game and talk about what players will be big factors in the game and what team they think will come out victorious. While this is going on the camera shows said player warming up on the field or the coach going over the game plan with said player, nice touch. The band plays appropriate college music between big plays and then plays the team fight song after touchdowns, field goals, and extra points. Probably the only weakness I have yet to find in this game is the crowd yells several generic chants, and never sounds like they are "into" the game.

Overall one of the best football games ever put together. If you have a PS2 and love college football what are you waiting for? Go out and get this game for yourself, and put yourself in as the starting QB for Florida State or LSU are whatever college you'd rather be attending.


	Steamer Trunk \| home NCAA Final Four 2002 \| Grand Theft Auto \| EA NHL 2002 \| Dave Mirra BMX \| Nascar Heat 2002 \| Crazy Taxi \| Madden 2002 \| NCAA Football 2002 \| Madden 2001 \| Triple Play \| Knockout Kings \| NBA Live 2001 \| ESPN Hockey Night \| NCAA Final Four NCAA Football 2002 EA Sports' NCAA Football stakes it's claim as the best college football game ever. With their college football series debut on the PlayStation 2 platform EA leaves all challengers in the dust. All the thrills and intensity of the college gridiron are wrapped into a tight package in NCAA Football 2002. This game features 144 Division I-A and I-AA teams (unfortunately now MSU Cowboys) and 26 Bowl games. It is the only college game with BCS standings and the Sears Trophy. Plus, you get an amazingly deep Dynasty mode, with in-depth recruiting and statistics for each and every team and player. The game has tons of features from exhibition play, season play, to a dynasty mode where you take over a team, and control every aspect right down to recruiting. You can even have your prize recruits compete to become an All-American or battle for the Heisman Trophy. You can choose from hundreds of team playbooks featuring tons of plays, on the sidelines are team mascots cheering on their teams, oddly enough no cheer leaders though. Taking a page from the Madden book, the game features a Campus Challenge in which you earn points for game play goals to unlock secret teams and cards, which adds plenty of replay ability. As for as actual game play the game is based on the Madden engine game engine. The AI has been tweaked a bit for the college game and numerous additional catch animations, tackle animations and the like have been added. The defense is better, and the Cornerbacks actually cover the WRs, so you don't get burned for 300+ yards every game. You have to play around with the AI sliders until you get it how you like it, but after that, it is near perfect. There are a little too many fumbles, and the CPU still doesn't run enough when they get behind. But, the game play is even more realistic than Madden, and very enjoyable. Best football graphics ever. The players are a little more detailed than Madden (if you can imagine that) the stumpiness of the players has been fixed. Players are accurately modeled in this game. The stadiums look fantastic, are very realistic, fans are dressed in team colors and the bands are placed exactly where they are in real life, and if the game is a blowout the stadium actually starts to empty out before the game is over. On the field you can actually see the conference patches on the players jerseys, decals on the helmets (the players earn them with big plays), cleats with spikes when you play on grass, turf shoes when you play on turf, uniforms that get dirty. When is snows the snow actually begins to pile up on the field in places that haven't been run on in a while AMAZING! You can edit and create your players and put cool accessories on them (visors, tape various parts of the body, neck rolls, long sleeve shirts under jerseys. you can change their body mass, musculature, you name it you can do it. The commentary and presentation of the game is probably the best I have ever seen. Before each game, is like an actual football telecast. Where the three man booth, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, and play by play man Brad Nessler, preview the game and talk about what players will be big factors in the game and what team they think will come out victorious. While this is going on the camera shows said player warming up on the field or the coach going over the game plan with said player, nice touch. The band plays appropriate college music between big plays and then plays the team fight song after touchdowns, field goals, and extra points. Probably the only weakness I have yet to find in this game is the crowd yells several generic chants, and never sounds like they are "into" the game. Overall one of the best football games ever put together. If you have a PS2 and love college football what are you waiting for? Go out and get this game for yourself, and put yourself in as the starting QB for Florida State or LSU are whatever college you'd rather be attending.