NCAA Football 12
NCAA Football 12
Sorti le 12 juillet 2011 sur PlayStation 3 et Xbox 360, NCAA Football 12 est une simulation de football universitaire développée par EA Orlando et éditée sous le label EA Sports. Ce titre fait suite à NCAA Football 11 dans la série annuelle consacrée au sport universitaire américain.
Côté réception, la presse spécialisée a globalement salué la qualité du produit. Planet Xbox 360 l'a ainsi qualifié de « meilleur jeu de football à ce jour », tandis que Game Chronicles a noté qu'en dépit d'une impression de mise à jour mineure, les améliorations graphiques permettaient au titre de rivaliser avec les autres simulations sportives de l'année. Du côté des joueurs, l'accueil est également positif, certains regrettant même l'arrêt ultérieur de la franchise. Un utilisateur sur Metacritic confie que cet opus reste le seul de la série qu'il ait pratiqué et le considère comme le meilleur jeu de football NCAA à ce jour, un avis partagé par un autre joueur qui souligne s'être « sérieusement amusé » malgré l'absence de comparaison avec l'épisode précédent. Le jeu affiche une note agrégée de 83,49.
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Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« The best football game to date. »
« It may feel like a minor upgrade, but NCAA Football 12 really adds the eye candy graphics to make it compete with other sports games this year. NCAA Football 12 takes us to the next level of depth and authenticity with new Game Day traditions, improved Road to Glory mode, and a ton of little detail improvements that make it a real joy for any college football fan to play. All that's missing is the tailgate party. »
« With all the new game play additions, better menus and customization options, a revamped Road to Glory mode, Custom Conferences, a new tackling engine, and presentation that represents all the major Game Day Traditions, ESPN overlays, and very cool replays that not only happen during big plays, but even are recapped at quarter's end and game's end, you really couldn't ask for anything more. »
« There are still a couple of features that need to be tweaked, such as recruiting, but with the addition of custom playbooks, the coaching carousel, conference realignments, and a fully revamped Road to Glory mode, NCAA Football has shown great strides in the last couple of titles, and NCAA Football 12 is the result of a development team putting in some hard work to make the fans happy. »
« NCAA 12 is better than NCAA 11, and yet I feel like we've come to the point in the series' lifecycle where the changes – while all worthwhile – are getting harder to notice. »
« Once again, EA Sports NCAA franchise has managed to up-the-ante resulting in a game that is more authentic and enjoyable than ever before. »
« It ain't perfect – and we're more convinced than ever that perfection in an HD sports game is an impossibility – but it is another soaring triumph that has something for just about everyone. »
« NCAA Football 12 is simply loaded with content, as always, and most of what is here will seem familiar on the surface. Those that really dive into the meat of the game, though, will find so many welcome changes that it is hard not to appreciate what Tiburon has done here. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« This was the only ncaa game that I ever played and it honestly makes me sad that they no longer make these games. I know they are basically clones of madden but for some reason they were much more fun to me. I just couldn't give this game a perfect score though because of the stupid unskippable replays at the end. I was hoping there would be a way to disable those but apparently the developers are just pure evil. »
« I haven't played NCAA 11 so I can't compare the two. But I had serious fun playing this game, and in my opinion, it's the best NCAA football game to date. »
« This game may not be top tier graphic wise, but why do they need to? This game is so much more realistic than madden in its gameplay due to madden having to work on graphics, not gameplay. Graphics still must be improved, but this game makes me feel like im at a NCAA football game right at the moment. »
« As much as I love college football and this game, I have so many frustrations with this title. This game was not ready to be released on the release date. Some of the largest new features (updated/improved online dynasty websites) in the game were not completed until last month (March 2012, EIGHT MONTHS after release). The much paraded "improved" defensive AI for the secondary and linebackers is not smarter, simply cheaper. Custom conferences were a much-needed and welcome addition to the franchise. EA Sports' technical support has been utter crap, and I say this after having to contact them for three different online dynasty issues within the first couple of months after release. They have yet to resolve any of the three issues I contacted them on, and two of the three were game-breaking and effectively ended two different online dynasties. »
« I really like the game its a little harder but I like it a lot its fun i like to play with the underrated teams I dont know why people dont like this game you have to give it a try. so thank you so much »
« Really think people are being a little harsh on this game, it's honestly for college football freaks who want that "corny" I'm there at my favorite college stadium feel. The intros, feel and everything else concidered yes it is just Madden college but I can handle that as they are at least trying to innnovate. You have to know their hands are tied and they are chained to whatever Madden does. Biggest bummer for me is that I live in Australia so I can only play it when I visit the US, Bummer »
« This is a fun game which is rehashed year after year. You keep expecting to see major improvements in graphics etc, but you dont. Cons:The release version of this game was very buggy, which is completely unacceptable. Linebackers jump unrealistically in the air to knock passes down. You still get ran down occasionally by slower players. It locks up randomly. Pros: Creating your own dynasty is always fun and the recruiting is pretty good. The road to glory can be fun. Overall its a fun football game, the developers really need to step it up though. »
« This franchise is slowly going the way of Madden. They are focusing more on the glitz and glam rather then the solid gameplay that has gotten them the title of king in the football world. This last game is hands down the worst game in the past few years. 2010 will forever be the year the redefined NCAA, everything following has just been a hack job. »
