XB NCAA Football 2006 review:4 stars (Better then last year, thank goodness) - In the 2005 version of this game, the catching of the receivers was pretty bad. This year isn't a great improvment but, they catch alot more balls then the previous year. I still have guys that are wide open runing a 5 and in across the middle and I lob it to them so I dont hurt their little hands and they still drop the ball 40% of the time. You can really rack up passing yards in this game though. Just keep throwing the deep ball and the reciever will catch it more often then not. To me that is not fun unless I'm losing.

Now, on to other things. The race for the heisman has been covered in other reviews so I wont go into it, except that I dont care to play it.

Dynasty Mode is great, the only major addition is the in-season recruiting. That is actually pretty fun. You can invite them to a game and depending on how you do when they are there determines if they want to play for you or not. You determine how strong you want to recruit them, you get 100%, and you divide that up into how many recruits you have. The better players get more of a percentage for stronger recruiting.

Some of the gamplay changes are being able to flip the running back route when you are under center. Just hit Y and then push left or right. It doesnt move you formation just the running backs route. The safties and CB's can be adjusted, hit Y and push down to move in the CB's and hit Y again and down and the safeties move in. That is different than last year when they all moved in. Also if you hit Y and push left or right, the safeties will zone left or right.

There is a new "In the Zone" icon under select players. It's not bad, I just find it hard to believe that when I played against Navy and was beating them 49-7, the Navy quarterback was in the Zone for a couple of plays late in the 4th quarter. But thats minor. When your in the Zone, the white icon on your player pulsates. The matchup stick is still there and its a good tool to use. There was one review that said the Dynasty Mode didn't have Create a Player. It does, just not until after your first season.

The only way to play this game is on Heisman and adjust the sliders so you dont get blown out every game. Make it competetive but not to easy and also you need to have the real rosters. The rosters makes the whole game.4 stars (MUCH better than last year) - I have written reviews since 2002 for this game, and have played all the way back to Bill Walsh college football when Kirk Herbstreit was a player in the game, not the analyst. So let's say this game is not perfect, specifically the race for the heisman mode. You create someone, play the entire season and then realize you cannot control the other dynasty aspects, so that is weak. So then I switched to dynasty mode, no create a player, which is fine. I downloaded the rosters with my action replay which makes the game a lot more fun. The gameplay is a little different from last year, specifically on Defense, I am still getting used to it. The buttons have been changed a bot, but you can go into controller settings and change them back. On offense the passing is vastly improved, last year you had so many dropped passes that it was unplayable. This year it may almost be too easy to pass deep. Double covered you have to actually take over the DB even in double coverage to deflect the pass.

Graphics were supposedly complately over hauled. I am playing on plasma tv with component cables and the game doesn't look any better than last year, if anything it looks worse. The screens in the studio are embarassingly bad. It reminds me of old nintendo games with the analysts gums just flapping, no where near synchronized. The dynasty mode is amazing as always but nothing new besides in season recruting which is knd of cool. All in all the game is not ground breaking, but it is acceptable. 1 stars (Worst in the series!) - First off, I'm a big fan of the NCAA Footbabll series. I've been playing it since 1997 or 1998 (can't remember), anyway, since its Playstation 1 days. This is easily the worst incarnation of the game ever. First off, the graphics are about as good as or slightly better than the first PS2 version, needless say, the graphics are much worse than the 2005 xbox version, and kind of a slap in the face for anyone who plays xbox. Secondly, the gameplay has changed significantly, making much harder for those who been playing the series on xbox for the past 3 years. Now on defense you have to press B to change players, then go all the way over to x to tackle, making you lose about a half second, not to mention the 5 seconds you've been pressing A, because thats what the old button configuration was. Juke, has been changed too, no longer the easy trigger, you now have to use the right stick to juke, causing you to lose another half second when you have to switch from holding A down for speed burst. It seems they've changed everything so that it will be more like the ps2 version, but for people who hate ps2, this makes the game really really suck. Please, don't buy this game. Show EA that we won't put up with this crap, and maybe next year they'll come out with a good version.
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ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
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