College Football Game of the Week: Ohio State @ Michigan
This weekend the premiere match-up is the rivalry game between #7 OSU vs #21 Michigan. The winner comes away as the Big-10 Champions and will receive the automatic bid into the Rose Bowl. The National Championship may not be on the line, but for these two teams the game is always the most anticipated of the year.
Continue on for the recap of the game as it was played through with NCAA Football 08. Also included are video highlights and screenshots via EA Sports World.
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March Madness 08 hands-on and gameplay videos
IGN has posted up a hands-on preview as well as three new gameplay videos. Below are a few excerpts and my thoughts on them.
The intensity controls that were in last year's title are back again, and perform pretty much identically. You can still build up your intensity meter in an effort to rile up the crowd, your teammates, the other team, or yourself with a quick press of the left bumper and a flick of the right stick.
I liked that to a certain extent last year. It helped make the atmosp...
College Football Game of the Week: ASU @ Oregon
From here on through the bowl season I'll be featuring one game a week using NCAA Football 08. The game will be played through and include the summary and statistics along with game highlights via clips and screenshots through EA Sports World.
This week the #4 Arizona State Sun Devils (8-0) head to Autzen Stadium to face the #5 Oregon Ducks (7-1). Oregon is favored by 7 1/2 points. The winner will position themselves at the top of the Pac-10 and keep their National Championship hopes aliv...
March Madness 08 trailer and producer blog
IGN has posted up an official trailer for March Madness 08 as well as a producer blog featuring Sean O'Brien.
In the blog he goes over in detail some the new features for this year. He covers the Dynamic Post Play, classic teams, atmosphere/commentary. You can check it out here.
There were a couple interesting pieces of info revealed in the blog. The demo will be released on November 19th for the 360 and PS3. Surely not a coincidence, that is the day before rival College Hoops 2K8 is ...
FIFA Street 3 details, trailer, and screenshots
Today brought the release of the first details on, screenshots, and official trailer for FIFA Street 3. The game, which is due out sometime in Spring, will be making the jump to the 360 and PS3.
The third chapter in the FIFA Street series creates a fast-paced and larger-than-life arcade football experience for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. FIFA Street 3 creates a hyper-real world that merges the game’s bigg...
First College Hoops 2K8 gameplay videos and Legacy mode preview
The trailer came out last week, and now Gamespot has posted up the first gameplay videos of College Hoops 2K8 along with a bunch of new screenshots including some from Legacy mode.
The full preview highlights the Legacy mode in great detail and can be checked out by clicking here.
Continue on to view the videos.
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Backbreaker tech clips and developer diary
IGN has posted up a few new items for Backbreaker, the new football game coming from NaturalMotion. Included are three technical videos featuring the game's tackling physics and a developer diary that talks more about the tackling and what you are seeing in the vids.
In many places Backbreaker is being viewed as more of a tech demo than a game. These short clips will reinforce that feeling somewhat. Eventually there will have to be more to the game than just tackling, even if it seems des...
FIFA 08: Impressions and Be a Pro video
I've been able to spend a little time with FIFA 08 in order to collect some impressions along with recording an entire game from the new Be A Pro mode.
For an in-depth look at FIFA 08 I'd highly recommend you check out the article posted by Shawn at 5w-g by clicking here.
A couple quick notes regarding online play. All the games I played have been completely lag-free with a constant frame rate so that was good to see. Interestingly there is no indicator shown above the player that your...