Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition

by Aspyr

Product Features

• Authentic Gameday Experience - Realistic gridiron action puts you in the heart of the game while authentic stadiums, fight songs, marching bands and dynamic crowds immerse you in a true game day experience
• Halftime is still Game Time -Super human band drills and drum major performances will keep you in your seat for the halftime show. Compete in an interactive band challenge for second half momentum or sit back and enjoy the show
• Drumline Challenge -Battle it out in a head-to-head, rhythm-based mini game; Features more than 100 authentic drum cadences and songs from which to choose
• Legacy Museum - Experience a tribute to the great institutions represented in the game and learn more about legendary players such as Doug Williams, Jerry Rice and immortal coach Eddie Robinson

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00283VUF6
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,872 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #26 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Sports > Football

Product Description

Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition is a first-of-its-kind game that immerses players in the rich culture, history and pageantry of football game day on Historically Black College and University (HBCU) campuses. The game fuses realistic, bone-jarring football action created using the Unreal 3.0 engine with two unique new rhythm games, the interactive Halftime Show and Drum Line Challenge. In addition, a wealth of historical data has been integrated in the Legacy Museum and dozens of licensed tracks performed by college football's most entertaining marching bands are included in the game's Jukebox.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Should be so much better..., October 7, 2009

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Lexx "mooreda14" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition (Video Game)

Let me start this off by saying that I really, REALLY wanted this to be a good game. I have been looking forward to it almost all year with all the pushbacks and all. The gameplay is average at best. The graphics are bad. The halftime band challenges are a cool idea executed badly. The buttons they ask you to push are in weird places on the controller and hard to remember especially considering the speed the buttons appear on the screen. The biggest problem I have is the small selection of schools represented in the game. There are so many more HBCU's than were put in the game. With the long amount of time we had to wait for the game, there really is no excuse to release such a disappointing product.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Would have been better as Battle of the Bands, February 3, 2010

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Lynnette S. Singleton "Baltimore Book Junkie" (Baltimore, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition (Video Game)

This was a Christmas gift for my twenty-two year old son. He got six new games in total for an xbox360 and out of the six games this was the only one that he wanted to return. I thought the graphics for the marchng band sequences were incredible which was the main reason that I thought my son would like it. As it turns out the actual football play was not on par with the marching bands. I personally would have preferred a game centered around marching bands from historically black colleges competing against each other.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Come for the history; Leave for the football., March 7, 2010

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Dmitry Kristal (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Black College Football Xperience: The Doug Williams Edition (Video Game)

The Good:

* Great history tool, which includes a virtual museum.
* Great pregame and halftime show.
* The in-game crowd makes it feel like you are at the game.


The Bad:

* Glitchy, buggy and feels like an unfinished game.
* Play-by-play is out of sync.
* Makes it feel like you are playing a game from 20 years ago.


The Bottom Line:

No doubt that this game was designed to teach you about black college football and it certainly done that. Unfortunately it feels as if by the time they finished this game, they said to themselves: "Oh we forgot to include the actual football into this game." Too bad I don't have my Madden 93 disc anymore, because I swear it feels almost like it(watered down version, too) when it comes to gameplay. This game only has two penalties: Delay of Game and Offside...that's it! The players keep repeating same trash talk lines over and over and over. Player models are very robot-like and show no personality in terms of skill. While the presentation is great, the gameplay is certainly not. Even the developers knew this, which is why this game was delayed several times in order not to compete with other superior releases.