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The new release from EA, NCAA Football 08 has been very promising, and has had a great response from consumers. Though there are not a ton of new additions/changes, the ones that were made definitely improved the game overall. Look forward to a new Game Mode, Campus Legend, which gives the user the ability to go back to Senior year of High School, compete in the State Tournament, and basically decide your own collegiate career. Schools will offer you different options, depending on the program and specifically, your stats from the State Tournament. This is a very cool new game mode, considering if your school doesn’t offer you a spot, you can always try to make it as a walk on.



When you first start earn your D1 spot on the depth chart, you’ll move up by participating in practices to earn points. Eventually, you’ll make it to the #1 spot, and you’ll never be removed for not going to practice. As a student, you will also go to class, and take on other extra-curricular activities. This will give you the ability to gain even more points to climb the depth chart.



The Dynasty mode is still the same, so the developers didn’t touch that (thank you). You’ll have all the same options to choose your school, change playbooks, pick your schedule and play your games. There is also the mock layout of ESPN.com to display all the ‘current’ college football news.



As for the game play, it hasn’t changed. Offense is the same, while Defense offers a new Hit Stick 2.0. This may, or may not turn out to be an advantage for the Offense, because it’s a little difficult to get used to hitting a player high or low. This means that Offensive players may leap over you because you tackled low, when you really meant to hit them high. Of course, in between plays you’ll see players walking through each other, but in the end, who’s really that picky about something like that?



Overall, great game, and should do well to compete with other new college football game releases.



9/10