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ESPN College Hoops 2K5 - Xbox

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EsaiOreo
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013
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The game worked good . No problems at all!
I do on the other hand need a new xbox .
Got it when it came out in 02 so i need to invest in that
But the game works perfectly !
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3.0 out of 5 stars Needs Polish
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2004
ESPN's College Hoops is a mixed bag. I'm a little wary of the gratuitous 5-star reviews this game is getting in light of a few glaring issues with the game.

Regarding gameplay, it feels pretty good with the exception of how free throws are performed. You basically hold down a button until you "feel like the time is right" to release it. There are no indicators to match up, no power meter to monitor, etc. It feels very, very arbitrary. I much prefer EA's March Madness mechanism, where you must line up vertical and horizontal indicators to perform the shot.

The most glaring problem in the game is the crowd renderings in the cut scenes. I can't put enough emphasis on how terrible those graphics are. I'm not just talking about fans not having the same detail as the players... that would be understandable. No, I'm talking about severe image tearing, glitching, jerking, models that are done in half 2D and half 3D, etc. This aspect of the presentation absolutely blows my mind, especially given how well ESPN titles handle such things. There are severe issues here, and I can't believe the title was released without them being corrected. Some cutscenes are of alpha-release quality.

They're that bad, folks.

Now, does this change gameplay? Obviously not... and we all know the infamous saying "graphics != gameplay", but with problems such as these, it makes it very difficult to emmerse yourself in the experience. I must note that the gameplay graphics do not suffer from any of these problems... I'm only talking about cut-scenes of the crowd.

One really nice feature in the game is that when you name players, you have a massive selection of first and last names to choose from. If the name you desire is in this list, the commentators will announce it during the commentary! I have a very uncommon last name, and it was on the list! Very cool.
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John Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Most realisitc and best college game so far
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2005
[...]I am a college student who closely follows college basketball year in and year out. I feel I have a very good sense of how college basketball is played (much different from the NBA), and I think that this game is easily the best representation of college basketball to date.

People who are looking for a game that is about draining rediculous 3's, bigtime dunks and alley oops, or any other kind of flashy basketball, get March Madness. Given this is fun in a video game, but if you are looking for a real simulation of NCAA basketball, ESPN is the way to go.

In ESPN, you really have to know the team you are playing with. It is very accurate in the type of play each team has. The Big East is all about physical play down low and strong defense, while the ACC is about finesse...just like in real life. I saw a lot of the reivews saying that "teams dont dunk enough" or "alley oops are hard to do." That is real college basketball. College basketball has its share of dunks, and the game has its share of dunks...but most of college basketball is teamwork, and ESPN forces you to do this.

I found that I had to play differently with different teams. For example, I usually play with Boston College, working the ball down low and using the 3-2 zone to shut down my opponents in low scoring games. Then, I decided to play a Duke / UNC game, and the gameplay was very different. With Duke, I found I succeeded more when I worked it low, and kicked it out to Redick behind the arc. Teams are designed to play like they play in real life. Cuse plays a 2-3 zone, Redick is nasty from behind the arc, and Charlie Villanueva is a beast on the boards. Everything is very accurately represented.

One review I saw said that a negative was that they dont have player names. I actually think the game did a better than normal job with names. No college games are allowed to have player names because that would require them to get licensing from players, which is against NCAA rules. However, they make it very easy to enter the names, and the announcers even say all of them...there is a database of names that contains every college player's name I could think of (including obscure ones, such as Nate Doornekamp of BC). It is really easy to rename players, and very cool to name your favorite team and hear the announcers and PA announcer say the names, something most other games dont have.

Sega has finally come up with a free throw system that works. Its a pain in the butt to get used to, but once you get used to it, it's amazing. There is about 4 different free throw animations, and you have to press the shoot button and release it at the top of the shot. It is easy to tell for good players, and difficult to tell for bad players. Makes for very realistic free throw percentages, and doesnt have an annoying meter like other games have.

Little things are annoying about the game. The crowd graphics during cutscenes are awful, but its really not that big of a deal. The mascots are well rendered, but a bunch really dont look like they do in real life (ex. Otto the Orangeman). These are easily overlooked tho, because the gameplay is so good. If you are a die hard college hoops fan and want a game that represents the game closely, ESPN College Hoops 2k5 is the way to go.
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R. Buchanan
2.0 out of 5 stars Strong Peripherals, weak gameplay
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2004
Let there be no doubt about it, the extras in this game are fantastic. The staduims are well-done, the fight songs are spectacular, the commentary is great, the ability to edit the rosters of all the teams is fun, and the fact that they have included the first and last names of all the players in all the teams, including the classic teams, in their names database is by far the best part, etc. All these things are what I enjoy about this game.

The gameplay, though, is very weak. The two most frusterating things are passing and dunking. Regarding passing, there always seems to be a mighty problem here. No matter the game situation, the pass button always seems to pass the ball to the nearest player in the line of the pass instead of the open player behind him. This is most frusterating when the latter is sitting at the three ready to fire.

Then there is the dunking. The players rarely dunk when they are immediately under the basket--they often just do some sort of body contortion and flip up some garbage shot that usually misses. On the rare occasion that they DO attempt a dunk in a little traffic, it is blocked roughly 40-60% of the time. That number is asinine. I often have games where my 3-point shooting percentage is stronger than my dunk percentage.

I have not gone into other weak aspects of gameplay, such as frusterating streakiness or poor AI teammate movement.

Overall, there are things that are really strong about this game. But the parts that are weak are the most important parts of any video game.
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