Game Review: Ncaa 2009

Darren Mcfadden is the newest cover boy

Although my love for college football is bordering on obsession I went into the store weary of the newest installment of the ever popular NCAA series. With last years release being nothing more than a port from the old gen models, and no competition to spur EA into immediate improvements I must admit I thought this game would follow last years trend. However this years version exceeds almost every expectation I had.

The game play is a lot more responsive in this years version with a heavy lean in focus on the running game. Moving the joystick left to right not only moves your player in that direction but if done quickly enough causes player to cut quickly to either avoid direct bone jarring hits or even being touched all together. This quick cut like motion is also helpful to set up defenders to one side while quickly turning back to the hole you originally intended on.

Review: Spore Creature Creator

Spore released it’s creature creator recently and you can download it for free here: http://www.spore.com/trial with approximately 25% of the features available. Alternatively, you can purchase it for $9.95 with all the features unlocked. I hear that you can get about 75% of the features unlocked if you download the trial and then replace the “CSA_Main.package” file with one from the full version off of your favorite torrent site.  Now I hear you have issues with saving, do so at your own risk. Now keep in mind this is just the creature creator, the full game will not be released until 9/7/08.