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NCAA Football 2005 | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $12.85
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4278
Platform: Gamecube
Genre: Football Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Gamecube
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 1 x 1 x 1
MPN: 14774
Model: NGEAG 014633147742
UPC: 014633147742
EAN: 0014633147742
ASIN: B00020V4RG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: surface scratches, tested, plays great. Book included.
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| Features:
| • | Features 16 new 1AA teams to choose from, for a grand total of 78 - including the Southland & Ohio Valley conference and All-American and National Champions teams | | • | Choose from custom playbooks, offensive schemes, and defensive schemes that include the 4-2-5, 3-3-5, and the 3-3 stack | | • | New Match-Up Stick - Match a composed senior wideout against the nervous freshman corner, or exploit other match-ups to see who takes the pressure | | • | Try your team in the 25 toughest places to play - 3D recreations of LSU's Death Valley, The Swamp at Florida, Michigan's Big House and more | | • | Deeper Dyansty Mode than ever - Monitor discipline levels and grades, recruit high-school athletes, and keep your players happy so they don't transfer in the off-season |
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Product Description
NCAA Football 2005 is more than just a sports game. It's a celebration of college football. From the school rivalries to the challenge of keeping a winning team together and victorious, you'll experience college football from every point of view. Get a taste of true football action, from the opening kickoff to the final gun. Incredible new locomotion animations for ball carriers and non-carriers -- plus strip ball wrap tackles, defensive special moves and over-pursuit tackles Player Composure Meter challenges you tomaintain composure against a swarming defense, and make the play before they take you out Get a taste of fan loyalty and true competitive spirit, with fan celebrations like the Gator Chomp Enjoy the breakdown fron the TV booth -- the team of Brad Nessler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso offer pre-game, halftime, instant replay, and post-play analysis
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Taking A Step Down January 27, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I played the you know what out of NCAA 2004, best football simulation I've ever played. Skipped 05 at first for Madden, which I initially thought was a mistake as I was not all that much impressed with Madden's very limited gameplay. I just can't stand football games where you cannot juke a tackle and in Madden 05's case, someone being way too open over the middle way too often. But as soon as I learned that NCAA 06 was not coming out for gamecube, i went ahead and got 05 on ebay figuring it was its last stand for gamecube. NCAA 05 has a major problem with passing more than anything else, especially after the loose and fun gameplay of 04 I had enjoyed. Way too hard to complete a pass on this game takes alot of fun out of it its that simple. Another problem I had was the look of this one compared with 04. The colors were not as vibrant taking a turn towards the pastel hue, not good. The overall player graphics were worse in every way. When the games are played at dusk, its as if there is a fog in the air, less care takin in cleaning up the graphics obviously. The crowd thing is pretty cool I guess if you're a fan of earthquakes hitting while you try to hike the ball. The "hardest places to play" thing is worthless and the rankings of these stadiums don't make sense to a real college football knowledgable mind. The hit stick worked better on Madden seems to me. The only good thing to come out of this game seems to be the matchup stick. Of course this was the only way to pass - look for the mismatch and hope your reciever isnt magically blanketed by some db from ball state. I mean some of the games I was playing in the NCAA 05 season were absurd. I had USC who obviously in 05 were probably the best team to ever play college ball, and crap teams were batting down leinart's balls like they were nothing. Atleast in 04 you could expect to realistically smack around those early season foes. I was saddened to see in my opinion the best football franchise ever finally get tinkered with in the wrong way. RIP NCAA Football. You deserved more than whoever programmed this crap as your swan song.
 NCAA Football-keeps getting better December 6, 2004
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
First of all, let me say this is by far the best game in the series. I have been a huge NCAA fan since playing 2002 and I have every game since then.
Gameplay- The biggest and best thing this game has added is the stadium pulse. On defence you can pump up the crowd and it rattles the offence and makes it difficult to audible. You can now notice a difference in the atmosphere between the Swamp and Alcorn State's stadium.(sorry Alcorn State fans) Between plays they now show the fans celebrate, dance, hold up signs, and do stuff like Hook em and the gator chomp. Toward the end of the game, if the home team is getting blown out, it will show them leaving. Some other great features are the match up stick and the big hit option. The match up stick lets you see how good the players are and if they are rattled or not. The big hit stick lets you lay a huge hit on the poor reciever or running back. The hits are fun to watch and to hear the crowd reaction, but it is really hard to time it right and you wind up missing a lot of the time. EA sports has also added improved user-controlled celebrations. Now you can choose to make the fans, your mascot/cheerleaders, or the player to celebrate after a big play-not just a TD like last year. I was playin the Georgia-Florida game and as my UGA bulldog caught a TD pass as time expired, he did the gator chomp to taunt the UF fans.
dynasty- This is the part of the game that is the best. You control a couch and you can go from team to team trying to win a national title or you can stay with 1 team for up to 30 years(I'm currently on my third). You recruit high school players and you can even make your own recruits. You make shedules, redshirt players, name captians, and read the weekly eddition of Sports Illustrated. This year your players can break the law, flunk out of school and do other things to get suspended. As the coach, you controll the punishment, but don't let your players off too much or you could get probation. Dynasty is the part of the game that makes it the best football game in history.
This is the best game I have played on GC. It has great replay value and makes a daily trip to my GC. If you have any questions about buying the game, just go buy it.
p.s.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS SIC EM WOOF WOOF WOOF :)
From an Sega Sports fan, this game rocks!!! October 20, 2004
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have not played an NCAA game since the NCAA 2K series discontinued. I decided to try this game. It is awsome! Best football game out (with the possible exception of ESPN NFL 2K5)
HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE is the best!
 NCAA Football 2005 September 23, 2004
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Its 3rd on 30 you got 40 seconds to go down by 2 points do you pass, run, or kick you could go for it and maybe turn it over. Because the computers are just as good as you on this game. So go buy or rent NCAA football 2005.
Sconce the graphics are so good in this game I thought it was allot better than what I was told buy most of my friends. The graphics are good enough to see their hair wave in the air. Most of the Gomes you can't see there hair in this game you get old teams swell.
Second of all this game is based on how you play not on how good your players on the team are. Usually games are based on how good the players are but not on this game. The players play just how you want them to play.
This game is good because it has old collage teams to select also. Some of the old players play different than the new players old players sometimes don't play as good as some of the new players
The special effects are great when you tackle someone really hard because their helmet flees off. In most games when you tackle someone that hard their helmet won't fly off they won't do any thing but fall to the ground
It is the best football game I have ever played between the graphics and the defense. On the game case it recommends 7 and up but I say 8 and up because the controls are so confusing. Back to the question you 3rd on 30 40 seconds to go do you pass, run, or kick its your choice is yours so go rent, buy, borrow, or whatever to play this game.
 Impressions after finishing my first season September 4, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just finished playing my first dynasty season in NCAA Football 2005 on the GameCube and I was pleased with game. I'm not going to go over the details of all new features, but give you my impression of the game compared to last year.
First, the graphics are pretty much the same. They have more detail in the crowd, but the players don't look anymore realistic than they did last year. This is mostly a limitation of being a console game. If they'd release this on the PC, I'm sure the graphics would be amazing (hint, hint EA). Apart from the players, the rest of the graphics look more polished than they did last year.
The new gameplay features are interesting, but I really don't think they make much of a difference in the game. The home field advantage is nice, but it didn't seem to affect my team, positively or negatively.
The matchup stick is an interesting feature, but I don't know that it belongs in the game. It is great to see what DBs are worn out or lacking confidence, but isn't that cheating? I don't get to see what play they called, so why should I get to see how a player is doing other than by observing their performance? I used the matchup stick a lot at first, but I lost interest in as the season played out.
They did make some improvements to the passing game, but the game still features rushing more.
The voiceovers are the same as last year (and the year before). It would be nice if they changed some every year.
One thing they didn't do was fix the bugs from previous seasons. There is a bug where if you gain too many yards in a season, it turns it into a negative number. One of my receivers/returners had almost 2000 punt return yards. On the last game of the regular season he went over 2000 yards. When I looked at his season stats it said he had -2090 yards. He went from being first in the Heisman race to being 4th because he lost all those return yards. This bug has been in every version of NCAA Football and it needs to be fixed.
In spite of the lack of progress and bugs, I love this game and I will probably play 10 dynasty season this fall and winter, but I am a little disappointed that there aren't better improvements and new features.
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