ESPN College Hoops 2K5 brings home the possibility of college basketball. In college, the program as rich and not always win championships can relax in a coaching change, a decision of OT, including a shot. A player can make or break the chemistry of a team while the coach can mean a blow to the big dance or a trip back to the drawing board. ESPN College Hoops 2K5 only fully the spirit and the magnificence that is college basketball! Presentation style ESPN - Jay Bilas and Mike Patrick return to the wheel, while the game provides audio songs college fight songs and detailed
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FINALLY!! A REALISTIC COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME!!
Gameplay is RIGHT ON!!
Finally. This game is on the mark. My point of view is from legacy mode. Legacy mode is when you start out as a coach of a small school (I chose Western Illinois), and compete.
You scout your own high school talents. You visit them at home. You call them. They visit you. You are given scholarships to offer. You decide what your team will practice on. Offense. Defense. Shooting. Post play. All ON A DAILY BASIS!! If you decide to fly to New York to visit a player. You will be absent from practice for a couple of days, leaving your assistants in charge... or visa versa.
Gameplay is realistic as it comes. Shooting percentages ring true. Free throw shooting is realistic. Comes down to timing each individual shooters style of shooting.
I started out the season with a very tough schedule and I'm very good with ESPN COLLEGE HOOPS GAMES. Control are similar to previous games which I've owned. Right off the bat, I played the Iowa Hawkeyes... I hung with them for awhile... it was hard, but I did... it was close at halftime... but then my team ran out of gas and Iowa became very tough to stop. VERY REALISTIC!!
As Western Illinois... I played the number 2 team in the country 2 games later... and lost badly... again... REALISTIC... 106-65.
As the season has gone along... I, as the head coach, decided my team needed much work on defense... therefore, I garnered my practices as such. I work extra hard on defense... and to my much impressed surprise... my team improved in that area. I started off the season 2-6... then 4-8... and have won 11 straight to finish off the season 15-8.
This game rocks!! If you like realism in your college basketball game... this one is it!! Hands down. And belive me... I've been searching for this very thing.
You feel like a coach, and in my point of view... you feel like an underdog when you're Western Illinois.
Not to mention... look at the price!! Snatch this up and don't listen to these kids who are criticizing really dumb things. By the way... the announcing is very good. Sometimes it is off, a little, but other times they say some really cool and insightful things, sometimes even making you go... "Wow. It's as if this announcer is really watching my game.
UPDATE: A couple of flaws I've noticed is that the officiating is very anger inducing. They'll call charging on you when the guy is obviously running right along side you. You'll go up to shoot and the ball will be blocked out of bounds by a defender... and it's called out of bounds on YOU!! Everytime.
These are small errors. They'll make you angry... but what official doesn't.
Great game; don't be swayed by negative "kid" reviews
In reading the negative reviews, most of them are from kids, who are under the age of 13. With their attention span less than 10 minutes for everything, do you honestly think they would appriciate the realism of NCAA College hoops or instead flock to the Arcade style of March Madness where you just mash buttons endlessly?
College Hoops takes off where the previous installment left off and builds on each feature. The post play is much improved over last year's title, though executing some moves in the post is frustrating. Turnovers occur more frequently now when you make stupid passes. Balls no longer just "materialize" through defenders to get to the player receiving the pass. If a defender is in the way, the ball is going to bounce off him. You have to make intelligent, on-the-court decisions.
The gameplay may be adjusted with sliders. Personally, I like to make it challenging so games are much more realistic. It isn't fun (or realistic) when you win every game 150-38. If Duke is playing UNC, the game SHOULD be within 10 points. If Duke is playing Radford, well, a blowout SHOULD occur. I like to adjust the sliders to make dunks and layups easy (they are hard on the default setting) and make jump shots a bit more challenging while increasing the defense for both the human and AI. This way, you can play games with realistic scores and stats and feel somewhat satisfied when you play as Creighton and defeat Illinois by 3.
Recruiting is much more advanced than the 2004 title. It is a bit overwhelming at first, but after awhile and a few times doing it, it really grows on you and you realize how much more effective and effecient this version is. You have a pre-determined amount of recruiting points, depending on the size of your school. Small schools have 3000. Mid majors have 4000. Major schools have 5000 (Major schools would include the likes of Fresno State, the A-10 teams like St. Joe and Xavier), and Power schools have 6000 (the big boys like the Big 12 and ACC). Each action you choose to do in recruiting has a point and time value associated with it. Your assistants help you in recruiting if they can, or if they aren't good at it, you don't want them to help. You can email recruits, call them, visit them, scout their games, invite them to your campus, and offer them scholarships. But unlike last year, you can do this all season long during the recruiting period. You can visit a player up to 6 times and you can call him always, limited to one call per week per recruit (as long as you have the points available).
This is a very in depth game and is very good. It appeals to the older crowd though, as kids get frustrated by the realism and non-arcade style. You can make this game like that with the sliders, but it just isn't fun IMO.
A Good Game
This game is a very good game. It's got a very cool legacy mode and that is usually why i buy sports game is for the franchise modes. This mode is decent with a few problems but overall is ok. A new addition is the coaching carousel which is pretty realistic. A good coach from a crappy school goes to a better, but struggling school and the crappy school gets a crappy coach from a crappier school.I like how there is goals for yourself to accomplish. For instance 200 or 500 career wins.The gameplay is a little diffucult at first but then it gets much easier once you get used to it.But the gameplay is pretty fun.I also like the juke box and the ice hockeye in the student lounge.This game cost me 20$ and i got it causeEA NCCA College was 50$ at the time,but now that it is only 30$ maybe now it is better deal.
Price: $15.16
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