I'm really on the fence this year.
NCAA looks better than last years (quite a bit better from the vids I've seen on pastapadre's site) - BUT - primarily because they [finally] added ONLINE DYNASTY!!! 60 seasons of ONLINE DYNASTY LOVE!!
And it looks like they did it right - in that you have human 'owned' teams and the rest are CPU players. Pretty sweet cuz you can load your 'league' up w/ all humans in one conf and go head to head all the time - or - spread everyone out among the conferences (my preference) and then battle it out for recruits, top 25, bowl games, heisman etc - plus - you get a few selected games to schedule each year, so you can add in the human opponents there if you want. It sounds like they might really have finally gotten it right.
SO - WHY ON THE FENCE?
Well - EA finally did add online LEAGUES to Madden, but come on - that's total [typical] EA bs to not include online FRANCHISES!!!
I mean, come on EA - you're right there offering a 1 year league, why not finish the job and make it a 30 year franchise or something??!!?! Oh - wait, sorry - forgot, you have to sell Madden 2010 next year.
I also don't think (but haven't seen it really confirmed anywhere) that the Madden online league will have CPU players filling up the empty slots. That really takes away from even the online league for me. We've already seen how the leagues drag out here (guilty) when it's all human players. With some CPU opponents it's alot easier to get games in. Plus - what's up w/ only allowing 1:1 trades EA???? How's that ever going to work??
Sooooooooooo - *if* i go w/ only one football this year, it will definitely be NCAA over Madden at this point.
