NCAA Football 12

Football, American Football that is, is one of the most popular sports in all of North America, on both professional and amateur levels. Highschool and College football is deeply entrenched within America’s culture, and with NCAA Football 12 gamers get to experience what it truly means to play at the collegiate level.

The game itself is a highly realistic rendition of what playing College Football actually feels like. With its immense pressures and challenges, NCAA Football 12 creates a unique gaming experience for those players willing to take road to the pro leagues and prove themselves out on the field. NCAA Football draws crowds of tens of thousands to their games, and as a player you will get drafted to a school based on your skills and evaluations. While you work on developing your skills and becoming a better player, your team will go up against some of the biggest schools in the country, all fighting for the same chance to win a national title for your college.

Gameplay

For most college towns in the USA, college football is nearly a religion to them. The tradition of getting up at the break of dawn, setting up for an all day tailgate and cheering on your teams athletes (who are also attendees of the school) against rival colleges. This is what NCAA Football 12 is all about, the tradition of the game.

The game itself does a masterful job of recreating the environment and feel of a young athlete with aspirations of the big league, the lure of money and fame which comes along with it as well. The game closely follows the contracts and implication real athletes must face in order to make it to the next level, signing a contract in the game will affect how you play by forcing you to try and complete the objectives and hit your goals.

New & Updated Features

With games like this, mainly sports based games like FIFA or Madden NFL, the overall ‘storyline’ doesn’t change much from game to game. What does change is in game features and updated graphics etc. NCAA Football 12 has made strives forward in developing a new version of the game tailoring to the true fans of the genre.

With a more customizable game, players can create a dynasty mode based on their favourite elements of the game, such as changing settings of the bowl games, renaming their chosen divisions and creating your own conferences. The game follows the college football tradition closely as it brings mascots, team fight songs and realistic commentary along with the overall experience of witnessing an actual college football game.

Pros:

• A realistic adaption of the college football experience from both players and coaching perspective.
• Graphic and in game details take this game to the next level, setting a high bar for future versions of the franchise game.

Cons:

• Little differs from past games (NCAA Football 11, etc.) however it is difficult to change the fundamentals within a game in this genre.