Customer Reviews

NCAA Final Four 2003

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Some good game play and it is fun to take my small school, University of Texas at Arlington, to will the tournament and to 2 straight victories in a Dynasty game. I do like the shoot meter so that you control exactly the shoot.

But this is not a good game though.
1. When you take a shoot you better make sure you make it or can get in for the rebound fast, you team will not crash the boards for the rebound.
2. You have a set offense with 4 plays, but you I haven't found how to call one of the 4 plays of the sets yet.
3. The crowd is that VERY ANNOYING crowd you see in the cheese bartop games, which makes since because it is the same shot meter.
4. If you make the tournament with a smaller school you simulate a game and in it no matter what. My players, including backups average 86, there starters average 72 and they still win big everytime.
5. I won the tittle 2 years in a row, 2006 and 2007, and the cheese splash says 2003 both times.
6. After winning the National Championship 2 years in a row I can still not recuite anyone in the top 100, even though I can get the top recuits in my state.
7. If the game decides you are going to lose then you will lose. The computer will not miss, including one game where a player hit 25 out of 25, all 3-pointers. Even with me sending a player to hit him to knock him in the stands, he would just hit the free throw after hitting the 3-pointer.
8. Freethrows are nearly impossible to make. You have to bring these brackets on the side to get the free throw. Even with creating a player that is 100 on freethrows, I could not get the brackets in closer then the outside of the backboard.
9. The practice session is shooting with one player, either freethrows or shootaround.

If you want a basketball game and you want to play your college teams, look somewhere else. It does have every division 1 team but it is a very bad game.

This is the most unrealistic game ever, sure the graphics are pretty good, but any game nowadays can have good graphics. When I played a season as Marquette, i started the season as #23 my first game was against #9 valpo after beating them (by 34 i might add) i was ranked number 1! how did that happen its not like every other team in the top 23 lost. Also, the computer only runs one play and its always the SF shooting a 3 and depending on the calibur of team he will either miss it 20 times or make it 20 times. Most of the reviews on here said they couldnt make a free throw but i had no problem with that, in fact when i created players i just took all the points from the freethrow stat and put it into the other stats, yet i rarely missed a free throw. Even on the hardest difficulty level i never won a game by less than 15 and i never even lost in 2 seasons even when playing Duke, Kansas, or UNC. Also, for some strange reason i had a 5'10 PG who could just take off with out a running start or anything and dunk it two-handed reverse style from the free throw line, while i had a center over 7ft and he couldnt have dunked if he had been given wings. My 6'6 PF averaged 12 blocks and 14 steals agame. WHO BLOCKS 12 SHOTS A GAME?!?!?! and everytime my SF made a shot he would celebrate on the wrong end of the floor and never show up on D. I dont know why this game has these uncalled for celebrations they never celebrate over a good play just a simple little 12ft jumper. Never a buzzer beater or a dunk over 4 guys, they just celebrate when they are up by 40 with 30 seconds to go agains Colgate or some small school. I havent played a good college basketball game since march madness 2000 on PS1. I usually stay away from 989 for some reason i gave this one a try because it was a gift, I should tell whoever gave me this peice of garbage to stick with gift certificates next time.

Does anybody know how to do an alley-oop? I can't find the controls in the manuel. P.S. I also am having problems with the free throw shooting. Please somebody help! thanks

I have this game and it is not that good.With Kentucky in the tourtoment I won easily over every team by about 20 per game. Exibition mode sometimes the computers kill you by a palyer hitting like 20 threes in a row. this game is not worth the money.

I loved this game. If you live in a city with a small college it will have our team. Bring from Omaha, I'm a Creighton Bluejay fan. So I was Creighton. This is a great game.

Shaun Rogers, you need a spell checker. wtf did you just say?