NCAA Football 12

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Runningback leaning away from a tackle in NCAA Football 12

Chart your path to collegiate gridiron glory from high school to college.
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Pick Your Path to Collegiate Gridiron Glory

NCAA Football 12 lets you experience the rise to dominance of a young, up-and-coming gridiron star hoping to make his way to a college superpower of choice and eventually a national championship. Experience the pride and pageantry of gameday Saturday like never before as you go from high school superstar, to top college player, to head coach in Road to Glory and Dynasty modes. With an enhanced in-game presentation, new traditions, and an all-new collision system, make an impact by leading your team to the National Championship with NCAA Football 12.

Key Game Features

Dynasty Mode - Dynasty Mode in NCAA Football 12 is all about customizing your experience. Through the Coaching Carousel you can start out as a head coach and climb the coaching ladder to your dream job. With Custom Conferences you can alter the landscape of college football by editing conference membership, conference rules, and BCS bowl tie-ins to your liking.
Conference Customization - Create new rivalries and alter the landscape of college football forever by realigning conferences throughout college football. Build new 16-team super conferences, create conference schedules, decide BCS bowl tie-ins, and more.
Authentic Gameday Traditions - Feel the true emotion of college football as your team runs onto the field with new pre-game traditions like the Sooner Schooner and Ramblin' Wreck, and celebrate big plays alongside school icons like Chief Osceola, Uga, and Tommy Trojan.
Enhanced Tackling Engine - Your college gameday experience rises to a whole new level with an all-new momentum-based collision and tackling system that allows you to control a player through the moment of impact.
Road to Glory Mode - Live your journey to a national championship like never before as you explore your high school years like never before, including: games, practices, tracking colleges that you are interested in and your progress in earning a scholarship.

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All the pageantry of the game.
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University of Oregon players taking the field with their mascot in NCAA Football 12

Authentic gameday traditions.
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Receiver catching a the ball just before a hit in NCAA Footbal 12

Dynasty mode customization.
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Lineman celebrating after a tackle in NCAA Footbal 12

Enhanced tackling mode.
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Product Features

Enhanced Tackling Engine - Your college gameday experience rises to a whole new level with an all-new momentum-based collision and tackling system that allows you to control a player to the moment of impact.
Conference Customization - Create new rivalries and alter the landscape of college football forever by realigning conferences throughout college football. Build new 16-team super conferences, create conference schedules, decide BCS bowl tie-ins, and more.
Authentic Gameday Traditions - Feel the true emotion of college football as your team runs onto the field with new pre-game traditions like the Sooner Schooner and Ramblin' Wreck, and celebrate big plays alongside school icons like Chief Osceola, Uga, and Tommy Trojan.
Coaching Carousel - Roam the sidelines as a coach in an enhanced Dynasty mode. Start off as a coordinator or take over as head coach to begin your coaching career. Stay off the Hot Seat as you climb the ranks of the coaching ladder and lead your dream school to a coveted national championship.
Your Road to Glory - Be an Ironman and play both sides of the ball in your final season of high school while getting recruited by the top schools. In college, fight to keep your starting job and earn your coaches' trust to unlock extra abilities on the field en route to becoming a Heisman trophy winner.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(118 customer reviews)

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

Disappointed, August 29, 2011

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This review is from: NCAA Football 12 (Video Game)

I have been a fan of NCAA football since the beginning of time, and I was actually excited for this game to come out to see the new improvements made. I liked some of the improvements made such as the new coaching carousel in the dynasty mode and the fact that you can play your whole senior season in the Road to Glory mode. But The AI on the game is unrealistic and running the ball on the Dynasty mode is WAYYYYYYYYYYY to unrealistic, I play on Heisman and everytime either I run the ball or the computer runs the ball its a big play. I have never seen a real college football game where everytime a player runs the ball he breaks a 60 yard run or something of that nature. And the reason why this happens is because when they break these big plays the o-line knocks everyone to the ground thats in front of them which is also unrealistic, I had 1500 yds by game 6 and I was using Michigan and Im a past first type of player, thats RIDICULOUS. There are so many times i have over 200 yds by...Read more

172 of 204 people found the following review helpful

Review of NCAA12 from the largest NCAA specific community forum, September 15, 2011

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This review is from: NCAA Football 12 (Video Game)

In the wake of Patch #2 for NCAA 12, the moderating staff and community at Utopia (the largest NCAA specific community forum) wish to express our displeasure and frustration in an open letter to EA and the so called "Game Changers" and "Community Sites." EA's NCAA football series served as the catalyst for this site in 2003, and though the Utopia community has evolved to the point that it is no longer centered on EA's game, we still have a common wish for a quality college football video game. This franchise was once unanimously recognized as one of the most enjoyable and innovative sports games on the market, but has now fallen to such depths that virtually everywhere you look, more and more people on forums all across the internet are expressing extreme frustration and displeasure with both the game and the company that makes it. We see three obvious factors that have contributed to the environment that allows such an abject failure of a video game to be released (with good reviews,...Read more

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful

very good game but technical glitches ruined it, August 4, 2011

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This review is from: NCAA Football 12 (Video Game)

I played NCAA 12 nonstop but then a week later the game froze up on me 3 times. I had no choice but return it. Thanks a lot EA for releasing a game that wasn't finished.