NCAA March Madness 08
- With Dynamic Post Control, you now have complete control over dozens of new offensive post moves and the ability to combine moves together. Animations can be interrupted at any time to transition into a new go, enabling you to read and respond to the defense, just like real life.
- Take command of the post on defense with strategic positioning to dominate down low
- Replay classic sports meeting in college basketball history with over 70 classic teams available to make your dream match-ups. In addition, the ultimate teams for dozens of Division I schools have been made enabling you to determine the best team in college basketball history
- Feel the crowd come alive and watch as it affects your players’ ( and the other team’s ) composure
- New authentic arenas and interactive environments
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i am an avid basketball fan and i can’t resist basketball sports meeting for the playstation 3. i know there is a lot of competition out there with the nba and college sports meeting and even streetball. while i stay away from the street versions, i like the college and nba sports meeting. well, ea sports has been pretty crummy in the past with their ps3 sports meeting (madden 07 mainly) i have played both the 360 and ps3 versions. while i only own the ps3 version, its exactly the same except there are no achievements to boost your gamerscore. while many say the 360 version is better, i don’t agree. my 360 recently died to the red ring of death and i am stuck with the ps3 and i like it. so no matter what system you buy this for, its the same game. while the game plays charming and there are lots of extra features in the game, its still not a very excellent game. neither is college jewelry 2k8 though. i havent seen a excellent college basketball game yet for the ps3. the game would earn a 4.5/5 by and large if it wasn’t for the terrible graphics. the players look eerie on the court for some reason. they look like walking stick figures my brother said, and i have to agree. the arena details are not there at all. the crowd looks like dots and i know that, but i am a season voucher holder for the wisconsin badgers with courtside seats and i can definately see how different the kohl center looks in theis game compared to real life. i also watch the kansas jayhawks, ohio state buckeyes and my cousin attends marquette and she is on the dance team which means she attends many of the college basketball sports meeting. we both agree there are no arena details. the court looks average though. the sidelines and endlines look verry jagged, but that’s no huge deal.
so i will sum up the pros and cons of the game:
+around 150 teams to choose from
+game plays smoothly on the ps3
+startup and menus are cool
+difficulty isn’t too hard
-arena graphics are terrible. there aren’t any to speak of. i don’t feel like i am looking at a college basketball game. the arenas look like parapet with dots for the students/fans. phog allen fieldhouse looks like a boxed in room.
-free throws can be hard for beginners
by and large score:
without including grading of the graphics: 4.5/5
by and large with the graphics: 2/5
the graphics are terrible
Rating: 1 / 5
The game is ok at best. The graphics are not up to the usual EA standards and neither is the game play. Save your cash on this one cause EA sports missed huge time.
Rating: 2 / 5
NOTE: I have not played this version yet for the PS3, but for some reason, when I chose the 360, it sent me here. This quick review is only on the 360, but from what I’ve heard, they are basically the same game but with different controller buttons to do different things.
March Madness 08 offers some clean features this year: 1). The post game is much better than previous versions of MM. Erin Andrews does a fine job of being the sideline reporter, and her presence offers a clean, nice touch to the game. Dickey V. & Brad Nessler give the game the usual collegiate feel, but honestly, I reflect EA should give the end user (us) the ability to choose different affect commentary analysts. As often in the past, the commentary feels too repetitive. It is still better and more collegiate feel than 2K8’s. 2). The player models look much better this year, as well as the collegiate arenas. They are nearly dead-on! 3). The menu screens are very nice and simple to navigate thru … ESPN is finally place to excellent use.
That’s really about it, though. Just enough tweaks to get die-heard MM players to spend their cash. It’s really a carbon-copy of MM 07 if you take away the new post-game features and the polished menu screens. That’s not a terrible thing, though. Still, as well as the NBA game, if you want the ability to run with many teams, import your made players into NBA 2K8 and get better, accurate gameplay, College Jewelry 2K8 is the game to beat. I will give MM 08 a slight edge on by and large graphics and menu screens, but it still cascade small to CH 2K8.
Rating: 3 / 5
Wow… EA are you honest? Sometimes, I reflect they just needed to fill a PS3 quota with this conversion. I also reflect they have inexperienced/inadequate development teams effective on some of their titles. And apparently, when going in and fixing this or that is too costly or time consuming, they just add a new feature or two to gloss over the remaining crappy elements included in this title. I bought this game with small expectations, I read the reviews and said, how terrible can it be? I’ve played Live 08, and it wasn’t that terrible. But this is BAD!!! The frame rate, as you may have read is really the issue. Players jerk and jostle about. You’ll step out of bounds without trying, get locked into an animation as you go to the net and again, run out of bounds. The opponent double teams and intentional fouls you if you’re winning with less than a minute to go – which sends you out of bounds to pass it in – which is incredibly irritating the 5th time it happens. But it’s not all terrible. I like the college feel, the arenas feel alive, the mascots, cheerleaders, etc. all feel like NCAA football. The low post play is pretty solid, as you can rely on an simple bucket by flicking the right analog stick when the defense posts up and go right on around him. Most players instead of a dunk do a up and under go that’s pretty reliable as well. Still, the frame rate is the largest nail in this sports meeting coffin. And where is the game you see in the screen shots? or even in the in-game opening preview after the title screen? A few more close ups of the pretty decent looking player models would be nice, heck if they can get the graphic quality to anything close to what you see when you win or lose and congratulate the other team, then this might be something to write a clear review about. But nope, it’s just skinny kids playing ball. Eh, skip it!
Add-on 8/29: After playing this game awhile, it’s starting to grow on me. Yeah the above issues are still there. But, if you slow the game down on the sliders to a snails pace, the gameplay is in fact quite solid. I’ve loved the mini sports meeting before each game and I like how it transitions from the playground to the arena, where all the fans cheer or boo as you make and miss shots. The recruiting part is in fact kind of fun, sending emails, packages, scholarships, etc. are all fun. And like I said before, as college goes, it’s really cool to play in the arena’s with the mascots, fans, cheerleaders, etc. That might be because I didn’t go to a huge school, so I missed out. But I can get it all here in the comfort of my own home. Not a terrible game. But still I hear College Jewelry is the one to get.
Rating: 2 / 5