What Dave’s Playing: NCAA Football 11

I threw in a quick “What I’m Playing” blurb at the end of my first post announcing my return to the blogging world. If any of you were paying attention you might have seen NCAA Football 11 at the bottom and thought to yourself, “Hey, wait a minute, that game isn’t even out yet! How is this idiot playing it now?” Well, to be truthful, I’m not. But I am very much looking forward to it.

I don’t like to publish a review about a game until I’ve had a chance to really explore the game. Because of that, you won’t be getting a ton of “breaking news” type game reviews about the latest and greatest games. So you can expect a review of this game, but probably not for a week or 2 after it’s release, which is July 13, one week from today.

They (and by they I mean EA Sports) have really packed in the awesomeness this year, so if you haven’t purchased this game in a few years, I would suggest you consider it this time around. Team specific entrances? This game’s got ’em. Numbers on the side of the helmet? Got ’em (although you might have been like me and didn’t realize we didn’t have those all along. Probably only Alabama fans saw that glaring weakness). Refs on the field? They’re back, and I didn’t know how much I missed them!

I’ll cover a few more features after the jump.

These features are only skimming the surface of all that EA as added to this year’s game. They brought the online dynasties to you with complete internet access. Anything you can do on the console (other than playing the game) you can now do online. They tweaked the uber-popular Team Builder to make it even better than last season. To accommodate all those user created teams, they’ve nearly doubled their their team nickname library to 4600 names. They’ve also added quite a few team mascots and team specific play books to make this year’s game one of the most true to life college football experience to date.

I could go on and on about all the new features, but you can look into some of them yourself. Here’s a link to their Facebook page, where they’ve posted most of the new features in the form of blog posts and videos showing off some of the new features. I suggest you check them out (and while you’re looking at new Facebook groups, consider liking our page).

So here’s to hoping that the next 7 days fly by quickly and that NCAA Football 11 lives up to the hype… oh, who am I kidding? It’s football! I’m going to love the game regardless.