NCAA Football 10

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Practicing against an opponent's playbook during the week with up to 10 plays on offense in order to increase your chances against live competition.
• Experience the all-new Season Showdown, a career mode that includes Web-based games and a trivia challenges that sets players on the road to capturing the Heisman Trophy.
• The EA Sports TeamBuilder that allows you to build your favorite FCS, historical, or high school teams, and share them with the rest of the nation.
• An all-new play calling system featuring simplified game controls and playbooks makes NCAA Football 09 the most accessible college football game ever.
• Running back comboand other moves that allow you to set defenders like never before by stringing together multiple moves, including jukes, spins, and stiff arms.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001S86IRW
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,761 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #11 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Sports > Football
  • #37 in Sports & Outdoors > Fan Shop > Video Games & Accessories
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.com Product Description

Settle who’s number one in the college game once and for all with EA Sports NCAA Football 10. With the eyes of college football upon you, players begin their road to glory in a fully customizable career mode featuring player progression, and authentic college football atmospheres. Against your biggest rivals and during the biggest games, seize the day and bust out big-time performances week in and week out to make your case for winning the Heisman Trophy. From controlling a player’s overall progression, to controlling the pace of a game, make an historic run for glory with NCAA Football 10. All-New Season Showdown Loyalty. Teamwork. Sportsmanship. Pride. These are the values that determine which school takes home the first-ever Season Showdown National Championship. With bragging rights on the line, earn credits for your favorite school by competing online or against the CPU, or visiting seasonshowdown.easports.com where you can earn credits during web-based games, including the all-new EA Sports Trivia Challenge. All-New EA Sports TeamBuilder With the deepest and most innovative Create-a-School mode ever, NCAA Football 10 allows you to build your favorite FCS, historical, or high school teams, and share them with the rest of the nation. A revolutionary web-based editor, TeamBuilder allows players to alter everything from your logo and school colors to the ratings of your third-string left tackle, and when you have your team just the way you want it you can share it online within or across Xbox 360 and PS3 gaming platforms. All-New Strategic Playcalling Enjoy full control of your squad and keep your opponents guessing as you set them up by successfully running similar plays out of the same formation. In addition, as the defenders, or the offense adjust to your success, fool them with play-action, misdirection, or double moves. The playcall menu is available at anytime and allows you to select aggressive, balanced, or conservative play styles for every aspect of football. New Game Planning Dictate the action by adjusting 11 different strategic conditions that have a direct impact on how your team performs. From opening up bigger running lanes, which increase the risk of holding penalties, to pressing the coverage with your defensive backs at the risk giving up the big play, each choice can make or break any given play.

Screenshots:

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Season Showdown. View larger.

Total game control. View larger.

Product Description

NCAA Football 10 for X360...Now you can settle who has the most school pride once and for all with NCAA Football 10. Whether you're playing head-to-head online in Dynasty Mode against the CPU or earning extra credits through skill strategy and sportsmanship the all-new Season Showdown ensures that everything you do counts toward your goal of helping your school bee the best in the nation. From all-new risk-reward strategic gameplay options to the first adaptive A.I. in a college football game make a historic run for the national championship with NCAA Football 10. ALL-NEW SEASON SHOWDOWN: Loyalty. Teamwork. Sportsmanship. Pride. These are the values that determine which school takes home the first-ever Season Showdown National Championship. With bragging rights on the line earn credits for your favorite school by peting online or against the CPU or visiting seasonshowdown.easports. where you can earn credits during web-based games including the all-new EA SPORTS Trivia Challenge. ALL-NEW EA SPORTS TEAMBUILDER: With the deepest and most innovative Create-a-School mode ever build your favorite FCS historical or high school teams and share them with the rest of the nation! A revolutionary web-based editor allows you to alter everything from your logo and school colors to the ratings of your third-string left tackle. ALL-NEW STRATEGIC PLAYCALLING: Set up your opponents by successfully running similar plays out of the same formation. As the defenders adjust to your success fool them with play-action misdirection or double moves. NEW GAME PLANNING: Dictate the action by adjusting 11 different strategic conditions that have a direct impact on how your team performs. From opening up bigger running lanes which increase the risk of holding penalties to pressing the coverage with your defensive backs at the risk giving up the big play each choice can make or break any given play.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

133 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe this has gone on a little too long now. Not the game itself, but EA's disregard for those who buy it year after year., July 16, 2009

By 

W. C. Bryant (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NCAA Football 10 (Video Game)

Look, I love the franchise. I've picked it up like a loyal lad every single year it's been available. Like so many others, every year I have some small amount of misguided faith that perhaps the serious issues that have plagued the title in the past have been addressed. Like so many others, every year I find myself disappointed once I realize that behind some fluff, the same limitations, bugs and flaws are still present.

I suppose that's not entirely fair. Things do get fixed, but for every step in the right direction, new problems (problems that should NEVER get past a reasonable amount of testing and QA) present themselves. So sure, defenders take better angles this year, and now HB screens are only crazily effective rather than unstoppable. Sure, QB sneaks now see the signal callers just sort of slumping forwards like they're having a cardiac event, which has "fixed" rampant abuse of the same in years past. Sure, they don't call the same plays over and over and over again (like a bomb out of shotgun on 4th and short) in modes like Road to Glory anymore. I appreciate all of this work.

What I don't appreciate is that every single time the AI completes a long play and then hurries to snap the ball, I'm called for offsides because my slow plodding DLmen haven't made it across the line of scrimmage yet (in the real world, they can't snap the ball until it's been set by the officials). I don't appreciate that the rosters aren't just hosed, but they're comically hosed, like someone somewhere just assumed that casuals wouldn't care, and the nutty hard-core types would just be tweaking them anyway. I don't appreciate canned animations being stacked on top of canned animations, rather than having real physics introduced.

Another year, and more fluff. Now Erin Andrews follows your career in Road to Glory. Now the Ohio State marching band will run Script Ohio in the Shoe before games. Now you can spend points in dynasty mode to negatively recruit against other schools. Now you can spend real world money on cheats (Want to always be a 5-star recruit? Want to know which recruits will sign with you? Want an extra pipeline state?). Now you can make your own schools/teams (funny, I thought that was a "new" feature like 5-7 years ago). You can find lists all over the place of the changes, my point is not that they don't update the game, it's that most people who play it would really prefer that the core game, the basic play and functionality of the game, be addressed before we load up with sugary video clips of Erin Andrews and various band formations.

I feel a little disingenuous giving the title 2 stars, because I'll play it, and I'll play it often. As a college football fan, I'll get to 'see' teams play that won't in real life, I'll get to right wrongs that happen during the season (at least in my own silly brain), and I'll get to take in some of that camaraderie that comes with immersing in college football with other passionate fans. And, like a good little addict, I'll be sure to line up again next year to secure my copy of NCAA 11 -- which won't have many of the fixes and changes fans have been clamoring for all along, but will introduce new fluff, new bells and whistles, but a whole new chorus of bugs and flaws to go along with them.

To be fair, some of the brand new issues (this year) that have most outraged fans since the games release on July 14th have been addressed with a quick patch. Online league commissioners may now prevent the use of purchased upgrades that would otherwise afford one player an unfair advantage. The rosters have been at least partially adusted. The sliders are fixed (funny how that's been a recurring issue). That's not really the point though. For what little they did from last year to this year, it simply shouldn't have gone to market with the flaws that it did. EA knows they have a captive and passionate customer base, they know people like me are going to plunk down the cash for the title year after year, perhaps there's just no incentive to really break new ground and advance the franchise when you hold a monopoly on it.

It's a great game (and that's not a contradiction of anything else I've said, believe it or not), but every year we pay the same price for it that we would a standalone title developed from the ground up. Are you seeing updates, improvements, and new features worthy of full-game cost? After so many years in development, after the "next-gen" consoles have been out in the market so long, shouldn't there have been a more meaningful and apparent evolution of the game? Season Showdown is a wonderful new feature, so it's not like I don't appreciate some of the aforementioned fluff. It's just not worth that full game price every single year, year after year, which is why I find myself writing this review, and lamenting the fact that I remain addicted, while EA continues to seemingly do the absolute minimum, and with no attention to detail, every single year.

I'll close the way I opened, because I know daring to knock the game and EA isn't going to sit well with some -- I love the franchise, I play the game religiously, and that's not going to change this year. I just wish I felt a little less like a chump with every new annual release.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars EA...If it's in the game, we'll charge you more..., July 16, 2009

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Just Another Poster - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NCAA Football 10 (Video Game)

**I deleted my original review so that I could give a more accurate star rating after further play (original star ratings were 4 stars for fun and 3 stars for overall)**

I will start by saying that the base gameplay is fine. It usually is minus a few annoying glitches, but the glitches have never made the game unplayable.

EA Sports has pushed me to an every other year update purchase plan due to lack of ground breaking features and addons. As others have said, they take away excellent features so they can add them back in later as new. That being said I had never played NCAA Football 09 and therefore do not know what has been updated/fixed from that version.

At first I was really impressed with TeamBuilder. This feature was excellent as it kept me from having to type information with a controller and allowed a lot of customization for a custom team (you can even create your own team logo!). You can also share your custom created teams with whomever you please.

This was a great feature, until I became aware that you have to be connected to the internet in order to use your custom created team. EA is either so adament about combating piracy or is so deep in bed with Microsoft that they add most features to their games that require a Gold subscription on Live to use (features that should have NO reliance on Live [statement is based on a different review]) that they decided to keep all your created teams on their servers. This means that if you don't have an internet connection your team will not be available to play with.

Another major iritant while playing this game was seeing EA's use of DLC. Yet again, they have decided to sell what is essentially cheats as DLC. I do not purchase them, but when I see a feature in a game only to be prompted to pay for that feature it gets annoying and is just...tacky. If EA feels they absolutely MUST sell cheats as addons, they should have a dedicated option on the main screen and only once you have purchased the cheat (or DLC as EA will refer to it as) is the option available from in game screens.

Again, the base gameplay of the game is fine as it has always been. It is enjoyable and entertaining while on the field...well, except for hearing the bland, 4+ year old commentary that seems to never get updated. It's when you start to stray away from the base game to their "New and Exciting FEATURES" that you really begin to see a loss in value of the game.

Thanks to NCAA Football 10, I have adopted a new purchasing plan that will have me skipping the next few releases and MAYBE picking up 14.

Perhaps EA should stop releasing updates to their sports titles every year so they can spend more time creating better games. If they were to just give roster updates every "non-release" year (preferable for free but it is EA)...they could get back to their glory days of great sports titles.

34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dumbed down, July 18, 2009

By 

Kv (SLC, Utah) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NCAA Football 10 (Video Game)

My biggest complaint this year is that EA has decided to leave game content disabled until you pay for it online with M$ points. Each page I go into I think "that looks like a cool new feature" but am disappointed to learn it is only a cool new feature for those who want to pay money to unlock it. I pay good money to get the game to begin with and now i have to play a dumbed down version--as if [...] for a game was not enough already!

You can still play the game without the unlocked features, you just won't be as effective in recruiting in dynasty mode. It would definitely give a huge advantage to online dynasties so i would imagine if you want to be competitive online you have to shell out an extra chunk of change.

As far as the game play goes, it appears to be improved. The new animations are much much better than versions in the past find my self enjoying the game when i play. The computer is still almost impossible to stop and your offensive line does nothing for you in way of a running game, but the football portion is still fun.

The rest is still the same as years before. Which again brings me back to why I am upset. Why am I paying [...] for a game that provides little in way of anything really new, other than items you have to pay to unlock? The updated rosters you would think are a step up but as it turns out there was a snafu and they put the wrong rosters on the game disk. So they couldn't even get that right. Though I'm sure this will be patched, it reveals EA's opinion of us their fans. We are nothing more than a dollar sign. With EA it is all about how much extra coin they can squeeze out of us. Examine the review of each of their recent releases and you see the same theme. Spore, Sims 3, and I'm sure Madden 2010 will have much of the same. Each is geared to get you in the door then you are expected to pay more to get full content of the game.

Though I hate to say it, it is time to stop supporting an evil company. They are not all evil but EA is and they have to go.

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