A step backwards for the franchise on next gen systems, though it tries hard to impress
User Rating: 6.2 | NCAA Football 08 PS3
I must say that I hoped that this game would turn out well, as I actually liked the Xbox 360 version of NCAA Football 07, but this is worse than that game. For one, the gameplay is noticeably slow and sluggish in the play selection aspects. On top of that, the game refuses to skip through the statistical overlays, such as end of quarter and scoring summaries. The game implements its ESPN license better with the addition of ESPN Radio SportsCenter updates, but then botches it with removing the ESPN bottomline look found last year and not showing in progress scores. Add onto that an inept depth chart system that inexplicably takes a player you are trying to reassign to be a backup elsewhere on the depth chart and removes him from his regular job as a starter at his regular position, and many will grow easily frustrated. On top of that the menu screen slows down when videos are saved to the hard drive and are playing on the video screen in the shrine.
Question to EA: Why can't you implement ESPN presentation when 2K was able to do it five years ago? It doesn't make any sense to me that you would acquire a license and then use it for meaningless additions that are more add-ons than essential to the game's design.
Overall: I have a hard time recommending this game to anyone who likes a sim football game. There are better games already on the market than this title, which tries to include more of the modes from the previous/current generation games, but ends up making the game worse off for it. 
