Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633154016 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: July 17, 2007 Sales Rank: 1146 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
Take Control and Make the Play—Boost your Skill Performance and increase your overall ratings by making user-controlled plays that elevate the team’s motivation levels.
Integrity Matters—Make promises to recruits to gain commitments, but always remember that failing to live up to your word damages your coaching integrity rating and could cause players to transfer.
The Most Complete College Game Ever—Home Field Advantage, composure ratings, and an all-new fatigue system, plus new trick plays like the Statue of Liberty and Hook and Ladder make this the best NCAA Football game ever.
Relive Your Highlights—Revisit your top accomplishments in My Shrine, your personal Hall of Fame that stores your trophies, custom photos, and more.
Medical Redshirts—For the first time ever, save the eligibility of your collegiate stars if they are injured early in the season—medical redshirts ensure that you get the full potential out of all your student-athletes.
Product Description: In NCAA Football 08 you'll put your heart, hustle, and toughness on the line, for the right to a championship win! With all-new Leadership Control, you can boost the motivation level of your teammates by making big plays. A Campus Legend mode and even deeper Dynasty Mode puts your coaching prowess and integrity to the ultimate test. With the all-new My Shrine, Home Field Advantage, and exciting new plays like the Statue of Liberty, NCAA Football 08 is everything that's great about college football. What kind of legacy will you leave?
From the Manufacturer: Lead by example to boost your Skill Performance ratings as you make key plays and take control of the game in NCAA Football 08. Can you put your heart, hustle, and toughness on the line and lead your program all the way to the BCS National Championship Game? With Summer Workouts in Dynasty Mode, the all-new My Shrine, plus exciting new plays like the Statue of Liberty and Hook and Ladder, NCAA Football 08 is everything that’s great about college football. Features:
Take Control and Make the Play—Boost your Skill Performance and increase your overall ratings by making user-controlled plays that elevate the team’s motivation levels. Track your user stats in the My Skills menu and become a master of the gridiron.
Integrity Matters—Make promises to recruits to gain commitments, but always remember that failing to live up to your word damages your coaching integrity rating and could cause players to transfer.
The Most Complete College Game Ever—Home Field Advantage, composure ratings, and an all-new fatigue system, plus new trick plays like the Statue of Liberty and Hook and Ladder make this the best NCAA Football game ever.
Relive Your Highlights—Revisit your top accomplishments in My Shrine, your personal Hall of Fame that stores your trophies, custom photos, and more.
Medical Redshirts—For the first time ever, save the eligibility of your collegiate stars if they are injured early in the season—medical redshirts ensure that you get the full potential out of all your student-athletes.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Game for the College Football Fan
Having played a few hundred games of NCAA Football 08, I feel qualified to write a review.
I love this game, and it is fun! I play it almost every day. I have been a college football fan since 1967 (O.J. Simpson was a junior at USC that year). Yes, I am old. These games sure beat what was available back then!
I agree with the other reviews, this game has its bugs and glitches, and the AI can be frustratingly stupid. But, it doesn't ruin the game that much. I lowered the scale on penalties down to 10%, and interceptions to zero for both sides (no adjust for fumbles). The complaint of to many penalties and turnovers can be fixed reasonably.
The game controls do have a much more positive feel than the Madden NFL games.
There is good attention to detail. The uniforms, helmet logos are well done. The stadiums pretty much look like the real stadiums. The computer keeps track of your stats for you. The ESPN crew is a good touch, if not for repeating the same phrases game to game, and Lee Corso's comments can get annoying (you can turn them off).
The game manual is just about worthless, it explains only basic game controls. You have to figure things out over time as you play the game.
It's also easy to cheat, by adjusting game settings or player ratings in your favor, and playing the bonus pennants, you can take a "rag bag" program like New Mexico State or Baylor in the DYNASTY mode, and have them playing for the national championship in a few seasons.
I have had a lot of fun in the CAMPUS LEGEND mode by making a DT 7 feet tall and 415 lbs. Actually, you can make any player you choose 7 feet tall and 415 lbs. (not very realistic). It doesn't mean they are harder to tackle or block though. Making them tall makes them better at going up for passes or knocking down the ball.
It also helps playing this game to have a good prior knowledge of formations and plays.
If you love college football this is a great game. I'd give it 5 stars if not for the annoying glitches and bugs that EA Sports doesn't seem to want to fix each year.
Rating: - Excellent game, the best college football game EA Sports
has done to date. The gameplay, stadium graphics and even the commentary by the ESPN crew are really really good. Dynasty mode has improved and the overall game is the best. Whether you are playing the computer or against a friend, it is competitive.
Rating: - great game
This was a birthday gift for a 9 year old boy. He and his 10.5 year old brother loved the game. They had played it at a friends and requested it by name. But having it at home to play with all the time did not reduce the thrill of it. They love being able to choose which team to be and sometimes play Texas A&M for both sides since they both are Aggie fans. The 9 year old has picked up playing strategies from this game that he uses in backyard games.
Rating: - Great game
I bought this for my son who absolutely loves it. Game was in perfect shape and ordering was easy.
Rating: - Disappointing
I love some of the aspects of this game, but unfortunately, the negatives far outweigh the positives for me.
1. They got rid of the option to create your own team. This was my favorite feature, building my own team and trying to build it up from scratch.
2. The cameras. Maybe it's me....but it's very difficult to follow what's going on. I understand the idea of the on-the-field perspective, but why is there no other option? When I am (as a MLB), supposed to be covering a back out of the backfield, the camera will stay on the ball in the QB's hand...my MLB is off-screen somewhere, following a reciever who is off-screen somwhere....it probably works great if you only play the QB position, but sucks as a defender.
3. The controls. If I do nothing, the computer will direct my player around the field based on the play call. If I move him one direction, the computer will move him back into positino as soon as possible. For example, let's say the play is a blitz for my MLB. If I try to drop back into zone coverage, as soon as I stop directing my player, he resumes blitzing. Eventually I gave up and just let the computer run him, and I did nothing. Not much fun.
I haven't tried playing as a QB, maybe the game plays awesome that way, but personally, I'll go back to '07.
- Excellent game, the best college football game EA Sports 
- Disappointing
