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NCAA Football 99 Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 best CNET Gamecenter Review By Hugh Falk (10/13/1998)
Oh well. I still have my memories of Tallahassee and my notes, and with
those in hand, I can safely say that NCAA 99 is the best college football
game ever created for the PC. Keep in mind two facts: there aren't many
competitors in this field, and the game's closest rival is its
predecessor, NCAA Football 98. Still, EA Sports has worked hard during the
offseason to improve upon last year's version, further cementing my
first-place vote.
Here Comes
Ricky Williams NCAA 99 also adds a great recruiting feature in Dynasty mode. This mode
allows you to take teams through several seasons of play in hopes of
creating an NCAA dynasty. (A football program becomes a dynasty when it
achieves a certain margin of success over a long period of time; however,
the NCAA has granted dynasty status to only a dozen or so 1A programs.) In
order to simulate multiseason play, NCAA 99 displays the players that each
team has lost through graduation or the NFL draft. You can then recruit
new players (randomly generated) to fill your team's needs. Returning
players also improve from year to year (if they stick around long enough,
they sometimes get too good). The model is simple but effective, and with
the ability to rename players, it's just what I was looking for.
Even though these two great new features help make NCAA 99 the best
college football game to date, there are two strikes against it--lack of
Internet play and some suspect player AI--that keep it from being a home
run. (I hate when writers use lame football terminology to review a
football game, so I decided to use lame baseball terminology instead.)
NCAA 99 offers several multiplayer features, but in comparison to
recent games it's not exactly what we've come to expect. Up to five people
can play on one computer. Up to five players can also compete using
two PCs via modem, serial cable, or IPX network. However, TCP/IP is
not supported, and therefore there is no Internet play. Of course,
resourceful individuals can use Kali or some other IPX solution over the
Internet, but the lack of native TCP/IP support is a significant omission.
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