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NCAA Football 08 (XBOX 360)


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81

"Generally Favorable Reviews"

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In NCAA Football 08, players look to be a leader and become a legend on the field. With all-new Leadership Control, players now lead by example and control the action on the field and can increase their sphere of influence by improving their players' personal ratings on each big play. For the first time, the game features a new and deeper recruiting system and an all-new Campus Legend mode. [Electronic Arts]

Developer EA Tiburon
Publisher Electronic Arts
Genre Sports, Football
Publish Date July 17, 2007

Critics Reviews

90

Games Radar

Easily the best football game yet for the Xbox 360. Sporting a beautiful look and feel and more modes than you can shake a stick at, it’ll cure your football fever all season long.

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88

AtomicGamer

A silky smooth 60 frames-per-second performance benchmark.

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87

Electronic Gaming Monthly

Two necessary fixes, EA: 08 needs more online options, and let my QB get some air under the ball. Otherwise, this is brilliant. [Sept 2007, p.87]

85

Team Xbox

While this year's iteration fell just a bit short of greatness, we'll just have to wait to see if the game strikes the Heisman in during its junior year.

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85

1UP

From the very first snap, you'll notice this game runs a whole lot faster and smoother than last year's edition, thanks to the necessary bump to 60 frames per second.

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84

Gamers' Temple

NCAA Football 08 is a good step forward for next-gen, HD college football gaming, but there's still plenty of room for improvement

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83

Console Gameworld

Online issues aside, EA has never released such a feature rich and incredibly polished college football game.

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83

IGN

It's on the edge of greatness as well, particularly thanks to a deeper Dynasty mode and inclusion of Campus Legend mode that helps add to the replayability of the title. However, the game still features a number of technical and balancing issues that keep

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83

Gaming Age

It's nice to see such a strong effort come forth from EA and I only hope they keep this kind of intensity in the future with their other franchises as well. NCAA Football 08 is a must buy for any fan of the grid iron.

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81

GameZone

EA has made some strides over last year’s college football game, and the main reason why is that they finally included all of the features from previous console generations game.

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80

GamerNode

The addition of Campus Legend adds a lot of value to the title, despite the still-lacking online portion.

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80

GameDaily

NCAA Football 08 does for EA's vaunted franchise what Carson Palmer did for USC a few years ago -- it ushers in a return to glory.

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80

Gamer 2.0

The gameplay could have been enhanced a bit more, but the same great football game you have come to enjoy over the years is still the best any fan can hope for.

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80

Game Almighty

The game's still not perfect, but the end result is a college football title with the depth to appease fans of the sport yet simple enough to attract newcomers. Hardcore fans might be disappointed with the presentation, which doesn't always feel like coll

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80

GameSpot

The in-game presentation doesn't have much of a college football feel to it, and the amount of turnovers will likely frustrate many hardcore fans. But even with these issues, NCAA Football 08 is a great game and another step in the right direction for the

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80

Game Informer

For all that it does right, perhaps it’s telling that this series has improved its presentation off of the field, while still lacking some of it on the field. It’s these kind of intangibles (and those above) that need to be addressed to unif

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80

Official Xbox Magazine

Feels slighly unfinished: the load times are long, the camera hiccups and stutters on occasion, and some of the onfield play should be tighter... but the game's bright spots are so good that we're still enthusiastically playing. [Sept 2007, p.82]

80

Game Over Online

A very good football game. It's not without it minor flaws, such as some clipping in animations, weird AI issues from time to time, and some awkward looking hits and collisions. None of these tend to affect the gameplay at all, however.

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80

Operation Sports

It’s the best football game available on the Xbox 360 and a solid improvement over last year’s maiden Next Gen voyage.

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79

GameTrailers

An example of misappropriated resources. The things that weren't broken have been changed, and lingering issues have gone untouched. With that said, there's plenty of game here.

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75

Game Revolution

Buggier than Missouri in July, and I don’t want to see you go bat crazy again like you did when I tried to change the save settings or save highlight film at the end of the game. By and large, these bugs are probably just growing pains, but you bet

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75

GameShark

Playing in a multi-player Dynasty is A Grade fun despite the flaws, Campus Legend is certainly worth investigating and online play remains a bright spot. So even though the game is peppered with major and minor annoyances, there is definitely fun to be ha

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58

Cheat Code Central

I just wish that it looked a little nicer, and there was more depth of gameplay added to the Campus Legend mode.

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