EA has announced that NCAA
Football 2005 has shipped. Last year, NCAA Football 2004 sold more than one million copies
and was the second best-selling football game in North America behind Madden NFL 2004. NCAA
Football 2005 marks the first EA SPORTS title on Xbox Live.
According to EA in this
installment, the game day atmosphere around the field and in the stadium will affect the
players on the field in NCAA Football 2005. Visiting teams will have to fight crowd noise
when calling plays while home teams can play off of the thunderous support from their fans.
Featuring the Top 25 Toughest Places to Play, players can compete in the most elite stadiums
across the country including LSU's Death Valley, The Swamp at Florida, Michigan's Big
House, and Nebraska's Sea of Red.
With the new Match-Up Stick, gamers can track the
crowd's impact on each player, then find and exploit key personnel mismatches. Players can
use the Composure Meter to recognize which players are rattled and to determine the players
they can count on in critical situations. After big plays, players can celebrate in style
with new team-specific fan celebrations like the Gator Chomp and Texas Hook 'Em Horns. NCAA
Football 2005 also features the deepest Dynasty Mode to date where players can build up
their schools, transform young players into rising stars and monitor program
integrity.
Calling the game from the booth for NCAA Football 2005 is the
award-winning broadcast team of Brad Nessler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso.
NCAA
Football 2005 features online gameplay on PlayStation 2 and Xbox Live. Players will have
access to voice communication, tournaments, ladders and much more.
NCAA Football
2005, developed by EA Tiburon, is available on the PlayStation 2 console, the Xbox and the
Nintendo
GameCube.
