NCAA March Madness 07 debuts on the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system by delivering a strategic basketball gameplay experience and next generation feature set that captures the intensity and atmosphere that characterizes college basketball. Never before have home court and the home crowd meant more as your players either rise to the occasion or wilt under the pressure of charged-up authentic college courts. Feel the intensity rise then watch as each player responds differently trying to maintain composure. As the atmosphere heats up your player composure ratings affect the all-new Intensity Control that changes momentum by allowing you to pump up the crowd motivate your teammates raise your own composure or even intimidate your opponent. Plus become immersed like never before by interacting with student sections school mascots cheerleaders and even the band.Beyond the atmosphere NCAA March Madness 07 delivers an authentic college basketball gameplay experience by offering custom playbooks for each team through the Floor General Playcalling system the EA SPORTS Lockdown Stick that allows your players to pressure the ball force turnovers and harass opponents on the court and an enhanced Dynasty ModeTM with new School Pride and Recruiting features that let you build your school into a national powerhouse. In addition the popular voices of college basketball are back with ESPN s Dick Vitale and Brad Nessler calling the action courtside.Format: XBOX 360 Genre:SPORTS/GAMES UPC:014633152975 Manufacturer No:15297
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Watch your players' Composure Meters -- losing Composure means you risk fouls and turning the ball over
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Team Intensity grows as you make shots and stay strong on defense -- build Intensity to an Impact Moment that gives you an advantage over opponents
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As your team wins more games, it'll appear on TV more often - making it easier to recruit top players and unlocking minigames
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Build up School Pride and use to earn new buildings, training facilities & even the right to rename local streets
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Hoops Too Late? Or Too Soon?Jan 20, 2007
By Jw Tucker
"Jim T."
I am rather baffled at the moment: here it is mid-January and March Madness shows up two to three months late. It should have been released in November -- at the beginning of the college basketball season. I figured EA had something special, someting 2K7 bunker buster -- a dagger in the heart, a slow, painful death to its competition.
No can do.
March Madness again falls, sinks, skids, and does not even come close to its counterpart, College Hoops. And I was not fond of College Hoops to begin with. Don't need to explain why since this review isn't about College Hoops 2K7, but we gamers love to compare and contrast similar simulations. MM has some nice things, don't get me wrong. I like the Intensity Control; the Dynasty mode and School Pride is great as well. The front-end menu and load screens are the best, out-doing anything 2K could present. The graphics, as always, shines, and probably to a degree, are a two-month-ahead better than CH 2K7's.
What about MM's gameplay? There shouldn't be excuses. EA had plenty of time, right? I guess not enough time. Honestly, the gameplay is pretty bad. Seriously. At first it may seem fine, it may seem cool, on the edge of innovation, and then the game does some interesting stuff, ala stupid programming errors -- stuff. These are glitches that should not be in a next-gen game. I mean, here we have people shelling out $500 or more for "next-gen" consoles and $60 a pop for a game and all we get is an annoying glitchy basketball sim. Come on!
I'm not going to rant and complain. There will be a few of you out there who will do a fine job at that after playing MM a few times. I tried to give this game a chance, I really did. I spent most of the day playing it, and maybe I'm rushing it a bit, but whenever your edited player suddenly disappears (AWOL from the bench), no where to be found in the lineup when you want to substitute him back in, then something is terribly wrong. This happened twice to me. I will also add that you'd better not dribble within three feet along the baseline without it calling you out of bounds. Add that in and along with some horrible foul calling. The players simply react like current-gen instead of next-gen.
Finally, I really wanted to like this game, something I was delusional about with NBA Live 07, but with all its glitchy gameplay, I just can't. Sorry EA, but you let me down again. Hopefully when the Ps4 and the next Xbox are out in five years we will see a true "next-gen" basketball simulation.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
I shouldn't have waited to buy College HoopsJan 21, 2007
By C. Cargill I waited until this week to buy College Hoops 2K7, expecting great things from this EA Sports title. When I rented March Madness 07, I was extremely disappointed.
The graphics are very good, which is really the only advantage this has over College Hoops. I did not, however, find any camera angle within the game that captures the "spirit" of college basketball like College Hoops does.
The gameplay in March Madness is absolutely awful. I could not find a way to alter the controller configuration. Unlike College Football, the controller configuration for March Madness is not easily laid out. I often found myself hitting what is usually a "shoot" button, only to attempt a lay-up from 3-point range.
This isn't to say that College Hoops doesn't have down-sides, but this review isn't intended to discuss that title. If you're debating between the two titles, don't waste your time on this one.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
BlehMay 05, 2010
By Shakira S. Graham I bought this game because it was on sale, I am glad I did. The graphics are really good but that is where the good part ends. There is no way to change the controller, your shooters can't hit a 3 point shot to save thier lives yet the AI can, the recruiting is horrible. This is a bad game by EA, don't waste your money.
EA has one thing right. JUNKJan 03, 2008
By TEXAS ROCKS! do not waste your money on EA sports games. they have not fixed any of the bugs and never will. Rent it and find out for yourself, but save your pocketbook some cash. Also, try 2K8 sports games
DisappointingSep 13, 2007
By bixodoido I don't really know what it is about this game that was such a disappointment to me. Nothing really stands out as exceptionally bad, it's just that the whole game has an awkward and clunky feel to it. The players don't respond well, the control is far from being intuitive and easy to use, and the game is just, overall, pretty bland. There are some nice touches, like being able to encourage your teammate or fire up (or mock if you're playing an away game) the crowd, but the whole game just feels lacking.
March Madness features the ability to create your own player, but the game places no cap on his stats. Want a 7 footer with a 99 rating in stealing, dribbling, and 3 point shooting as well as rebounding and blocking? No problem. The ability to create these supermen players really detracts from the player creation in my opinion.
The Dynasty mode and online options have some interesting features, but with such weak gameplay these things really don't matter. Actually playing basketball isn't fun, and no amount of customization in the Dynasty mode is going to save this from being a subpar game.
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