I tried to support it, folks. I really did. I, along with the rest of the HBCU community, had so much hope for the BCFX video game. After hearing of its move from PC to Xbox 360, I knew I had to get it. I then read about the special features, the exclusive band battle, the drumline challenge, and the use of the HBCU teams. Along with many others - I. Was. Hooked.
The fact of the matter is, for about 6 years, EA sports would go back and forth with adding teams from the MEAC and SWAC on their NCAA Football series. My best friend, who went to Columbia University would pick his alma matter, and I would pick mine for an Ivy League/MEAC battle. After all, on those games, if you weren't a AP poll Top 25 school, your team had terrible - better yet, almost unplayable ratings. So it was a fair fight. Then, as the gameplay and graphics progressed, they had to make room somewhere - why not cut these HBCU schools. So there went our friendly underrated battle.
But then the creator of BCFX teamed up with Grambling State Alum and Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, I knew there was a chance to play with our teams with good ratings and fair gameplay. I tried to look up some game ratings, but most of the ratings were complaining about the name "Black College Football Xperience," "why is there not a game called White College Football?" - But we'll save that for another blog. After finding no concrete ratings, and having some extra Gamestop trade-in credit, I said "why not," i'll go check it out.
To keep a long blog short.......the game sucks. The band competetion is somewhat fun, and the drumline battle is pretty cool, too. But even the graphics, accuracy, and Sound output are spotty at best. It will definitely make you think your surround sound speakers need repair. As for the graphics....imagine playing NCAA Football 2001 (for PS1).....except playing on Sega Genesis. Yup, that bad. It truly does not look like a professional final copy ready to sell. Very blocky, no fluid motion, graphic skips and glitches, and the sound is again horrible. From the custom urban dances in the endzone, to Doug Williams poor grammar in the "Ask Doug" playcall list, I was so disgusted with the game, the HBCU fact section was not even entertaining.
And on top of that..... NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY is NOT on the game!! There are roughly 100 HBCU's, and their selection of 1/3 of them was sketchy at best. No disrespect, it was probably a money issue for some schools, but the list is skipping out on some of the more known schools.
Having said that, the creators of this game should have teamed up with the Guitar Hero or Rock Band group and made "HBCU Band Hero." Now, that would have been a quality investment. BCFX is going back to Gamestop today...Guitar Hero 5 has a pretty good set list =D
The fact of the matter is, for about 6 years, EA sports would go back and forth with adding teams from the MEAC and SWAC on their NCAA Football series. My best friend, who went to Columbia University would pick his alma matter, and I would pick mine for an Ivy League/MEAC battle. After all, on those games, if you weren't a AP poll Top 25 school, your team had terrible - better yet, almost unplayable ratings. So it was a fair fight. Then, as the gameplay and graphics progressed, they had to make room somewhere - why not cut these HBCU schools. So there went our friendly underrated battle.
But then the creator of BCFX teamed up with Grambling State Alum and Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, I knew there was a chance to play with our teams with good ratings and fair gameplay. I tried to look up some game ratings, but most of the ratings were complaining about the name "Black College Football Xperience," "why is there not a game called White College Football?" - But we'll save that for another blog. After finding no concrete ratings, and having some extra Gamestop trade-in credit, I said "why not," i'll go check it out.
To keep a long blog short.......the game sucks. The band competetion is somewhat fun, and the drumline battle is pretty cool, too. But even the graphics, accuracy, and Sound output are spotty at best. It will definitely make you think your surround sound speakers need repair. As for the graphics....imagine playing NCAA Football 2001 (for PS1).....except playing on Sega Genesis. Yup, that bad. It truly does not look like a professional final copy ready to sell. Very blocky, no fluid motion, graphic skips and glitches, and the sound is again horrible. From the custom urban dances in the endzone, to Doug Williams poor grammar in the "Ask Doug" playcall list, I was so disgusted with the game, the HBCU fact section was not even entertaining.
And on top of that..... NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY is NOT on the game!! There are roughly 100 HBCU's, and their selection of 1/3 of them was sketchy at best. No disrespect, it was probably a money issue for some schools, but the list is skipping out on some of the more known schools.
Having said that, the creators of this game should have teamed up with the Guitar Hero or Rock Band group and made "HBCU Band Hero." Now, that would have been a quality investment. BCFX is going back to Gamestop today...Guitar Hero 5 has a pretty good set list =D
