NCAA Football 08 Impressions

Ah, spring football. It's that innocent time of year when college teams across the country merrily walk through plays in their practice jerseys, the pressures of Division 1 football far behind them. So when we got our hands on NCAA Football 08 for a quick game Thursday, we naturally chose to play the most pressure-packed game out there: Michigan at Ohio State.

NCAA 08 is still relatively early in development, somewhere in mid-Alpha, EA says. Like most football teams this time of year, NCAA 08 has plenty of apparent flaws that need fine-tuning. But like the Wolverines (stacked again) and the ever-dangerous Buckeyes, NCAA 08 shows a lot of promise too.

IGN Sports editor Jon Robinson and I jumped right into the Horseshoe and changed the weather to 11 degrees with slight precipitation. That means snow. Now if the console had been hooked up to Xbox Live, the new real-time weather feature courtesy of the Weather Channel would have selected 65 degrees and cloudy, as it was in Columbus on April 26 at 5:30 p.m. But snow is more fun.

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