Post by MrLuck on Apr 18, 2005 10:01:47 GMT -5
NCAA Football 2006: Be a Legend
EA's big man on campus kicks off the new season with a Race for the Heisman.
by Aaron Boulding
April 13, 2005 - The struggle to differentiate EA's NCAA Football series from the wildly successful Madden NFL franchise made a huge leap with last year's NCAA Football 2005 thanks to the stadium pulse feature, matchup stick and enhanced dynasty mode. So after a breakthrough year like that, the pressure is clearly on the developers at EA Tiburon to come up with another new bag of tricks to keep the college game on its own unique path of football.
The past couple of years for each franchise have been interesting because the two games have introduced new features that would be exclusive to one or the other but that fans would want to see in both titles. But that's exactly what the developers don't want to do. The whole point is to bring out those special elements of the college game that will make NCAA its own unique experience even with the popular Madden game engine doing much of the heavy lifting. For the 2006 edition, NCAA football is lead by the all new Race for the Heisman mode, a feature that could make this college football game, the most collegiate yet.
Become a Legend
To make sure gamers get to know the new Race for the Heisman Mode, as soon as you fire up NCAA 2006, you'll be dropped into an auto-generated scenario that casts you in the role of an elite high school football player. You're at a special camp for blue chip prospects and all you have to do is tell them what position you want to play before you're thrown into a series of drills. You run through the position-specific drills and have to wow the coaches in attendance with your ability. Are you the next Ron Powlus or the next Chris Leak? If you're good enough, schools like Oklahoma and USC will offer you a scholarship. Stink it up and you could be toting the rock for small conference doormats like San Jose State. Or, you can just walk on to any of the Division 1A teams in the game and make your presence felt.
You should be well on your way to becoming a legend.
As a standalone mode, Race for the Heisman feels a lot like Dynasty mode, except with a major twist: you're a player not the coach. The biggest difference is the Dorm Room, which will be your main interface for the mode and the screen where you can check up on everything going on in your player's world. You can check the trophy trunk for all of the awards he's won and keep an eye on the picture of his beloved girlfriend. It's a safe bet that the more hardware he collects, the better the chances his girlfriend will change too. You're more or less on a four year mission to win a Heisman even though you can come out early and head to the NFL (and Madden NFL 2006). It'll take plenty of covers of Sports Illustrated for it to happen but when you get invited to the Heisman Trophy ceremony, you won't know the outcome until you get there. The cinematic around the trophy presentation will unveil the winner and build up all of the drama that happens every year at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City.
NCAA Football 2006 also features some other great additions to the series…only thing is, we can't reveal anything else at this time.
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Get ready....its time to play some football again.....Ready to make some bets?
EA's big man on campus kicks off the new season with a Race for the Heisman.
by Aaron Boulding
April 13, 2005 - The struggle to differentiate EA's NCAA Football series from the wildly successful Madden NFL franchise made a huge leap with last year's NCAA Football 2005 thanks to the stadium pulse feature, matchup stick and enhanced dynasty mode. So after a breakthrough year like that, the pressure is clearly on the developers at EA Tiburon to come up with another new bag of tricks to keep the college game on its own unique path of football.
The past couple of years for each franchise have been interesting because the two games have introduced new features that would be exclusive to one or the other but that fans would want to see in both titles. But that's exactly what the developers don't want to do. The whole point is to bring out those special elements of the college game that will make NCAA its own unique experience even with the popular Madden game engine doing much of the heavy lifting. For the 2006 edition, NCAA football is lead by the all new Race for the Heisman mode, a feature that could make this college football game, the most collegiate yet.
Become a Legend
To make sure gamers get to know the new Race for the Heisman Mode, as soon as you fire up NCAA 2006, you'll be dropped into an auto-generated scenario that casts you in the role of an elite high school football player. You're at a special camp for blue chip prospects and all you have to do is tell them what position you want to play before you're thrown into a series of drills. You run through the position-specific drills and have to wow the coaches in attendance with your ability. Are you the next Ron Powlus or the next Chris Leak? If you're good enough, schools like Oklahoma and USC will offer you a scholarship. Stink it up and you could be toting the rock for small conference doormats like San Jose State. Or, you can just walk on to any of the Division 1A teams in the game and make your presence felt.
You should be well on your way to becoming a legend.
As a standalone mode, Race for the Heisman feels a lot like Dynasty mode, except with a major twist: you're a player not the coach. The biggest difference is the Dorm Room, which will be your main interface for the mode and the screen where you can check up on everything going on in your player's world. You can check the trophy trunk for all of the awards he's won and keep an eye on the picture of his beloved girlfriend. It's a safe bet that the more hardware he collects, the better the chances his girlfriend will change too. You're more or less on a four year mission to win a Heisman even though you can come out early and head to the NFL (and Madden NFL 2006). It'll take plenty of covers of Sports Illustrated for it to happen but when you get invited to the Heisman Trophy ceremony, you won't know the outcome until you get there. The cinematic around the trophy presentation will unveil the winner and build up all of the drama that happens every year at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City.
NCAA Football 2006 also features some other great additions to the series…only thing is, we can't reveal anything else at this time.
.....................................................................................
Get ready....its time to play some football again.....Ready to make some bets?
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