Customer Reviews

NCAA Basketball 10

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

NCAA Basketball 10 has a brand new presentation system that blows most other sports games out of the water. The game is either on ESPN or CBS, each with their specific commentators and presentation styles. The game looks beautiful, the floors and players are nicely detailed.

As far as gameplay, the new motion offenses are a lot of fun to control, probably the best improvement of the game. Like all sports games, penalties and such are relatively random, which you would expect. Overall, it is very user-friendly and play calling is easy to pick up.

The best part of the game is of course dynasty mode, where you control a program for up to 30 years. I would play it just for March Madness at the end of the year, which manages to add an extra dimension of excitement on the road to the Final Four.

The game-play is pretty good. Motion offense gives you more control when running your team while keeping the pace fast. Player movement is somewhat choppy, but decent for a basketball game. It would be nice if you had more control when defending players other than hands-up and take-charge. They should take out some AI and allow me to control.

There isn't much for new features, in fact, there really aren't many extra features. I also own NCAA Football 10, and there is plenty of fun stuff to do there.

Now, to the crippling problem of the game. When I first bought a copy, it froze every 3 - 4 games I played. Returned for another copy. Same thing. I just bought a new 360 last month, with the new chip set. This is absolutely unacceptable. If you are a patient person and don't mind continuously replaying games, then this one is for you. Otherwise, wait for a patch or just buy '09. How could this have possibly passed any reasonable QA testing?

For the first 2 weeks of owning this game I loved it, THEN it started freezing up. It appears to a huge issue with the game that I was not aware of until it happened to me. Unless EA comes out with a patch to fix the issue the game is worthless.

I have never experience problems that other players have, and with the downloadable rosters, this game makes NCAA 11 unnecessary. Definitely a good time of the year to be playing some college basketball, and although the price is kinda spendy on it, it is well worth it for any college basketball fan.

For XBOX360. I loved this game as soon as I started playing it. I got through almost an entire season and all of a sudden, the game would freeze. It would freeze the entire XBOX and you have to power down and back on to even use your XBOX. I returned the game thinking it was just the game but the next one did it too. It does it almost every other game, in the middle of the game. So frustrating.

This was a Christmas gift for my 15 year old son. He's really enjoyed setting up his team and playing through the season. The graphics are amazing. From the amount of time he's invested in it I think it's safe to say he'd recommend it :)

This game has been such a huge step up from past NCAA Basketball titles, which frankly have been a major disappointment since making the jump from old-gen to new gen systems. Nevertheless, the presentation in this game in my mind makes it look like you are watching an actual broadcast. The ESPN is superb with plenty of commentary and overlays, while the CBS presentation is phenomenal and has alot of potential with the exciting Gus Johnson calling the action. The game is missing a few teams that the 2k series had (e.g. Florida Gulf Coast and North Florida), however, the dynasty mode is alot of fun and you'll find yourself addicted reaching the final four year after year.

Now, with all of this fun, there's just one teeny tiny problem: THE GAME CAN NOT STOP FREEZING! In my first year of dynasty, I only had about 5 games that froze, so I wasn't too concerned. However, in year two, the number increased. Another increase in year 3 as every other game froze (I had to play the national championship five friggin times!) I traded in the game for a BRAND NEW VERSION. Guess what? When I started year 4, EVERY GAME FROZE! Finally had enough and returned the copy.

EA has announced they wont be releasing an 11' version because of financial issues. That's understandable. What's not understandable is for such a decorated company to completely ditch their patrons and not release a patch. EA has completely separated themselves from this series and given customers the middle finger. They know that the game is broken, yet refuse to acknowledge it. Rot in "frozen" hell EA

Whoever says this game is dumb is dumb. This game is amazing with no glitches. The worst aspect is the fans which aren't even bad. This game has no freezes. It will provide hours of continued fun. The dunks are amazing and the games realistic. Fouls are few and far between but what sport video game isn't?

Great Game - Very Realistic.
EA please keep up the NCAA series...some of us could not give a flying flip about NBA / NFL.

I love CBB games, i buy the new one every year. this one is ridiculously bad. The game play is awful, players just drop the ball, you can manuever defensively so a player will just run out of bounds and drop the ball in bounds resulting in a fast break. If you play against the game you will receive no foul calls in comparison to how many the computer gets. I play on all american, i moved up the difficulty about 10 months ago. In that time the computer has missed ONE FREE THROW. Which is entirely realistic. And thats not the worst part. Usually when your grinding out a win over a top 25 team it will freeze in the 2nd half, or maybe the first half, or during the pregame warmups, or when you load your dynasty, or anytime it damn well feels like it. The recruiting is pretty amazing and when the game isnt being foolish it is fun to play but the freezing and the little glitches and the foul calls make this game not much fun. And to make it even better, noone is making a new one this year!!