EA SPORTS™ College Football 27

guys please put rocky top in the game. whats the point without that. thanks.

I think that they have made it the most technically advanced football game to date. The graphics are impressive, the realism is great, but they traded user ability for simulation and animations. Essentially animations, pre-snap play calling and adjustments override any user ability. The movement feels slow and clunky because the game is relying on animations and scripted interactions. I just wish it put more emphasis on rewarding stick skills and user ability. EA sacrificed fun for realism. The game modes make it authentic to original NCAA but the gameplay feels like madden with college teams slapped on the helmet.

this ♥♥♥♥ is riddled with endless bugs and the game regularly feels like it was playtested exclusively by blind kindergarteners

The developers of this game should be drug out into the streets tar and feathered and sent to prison. Game is a gambling vehicle and a psychologically punishing system designed to goude you into spending money on the game in even the single player mode. They say they are taking the microtransactions out of single player? Guess what? All the trash they paid psychologists to design to make you spend money on these modes is still there. All the DARK PATTERNS ARE HERE. The gameplay is still affected. I hope one day as a society we can start punishing the people who are a drain on society like the people on the board responsible for this trash from EA. Whats so sad is Electronic Arts fell off so hard they had to start copying 2K. Same systems in 2k are all here. If i knew this was just a 2k reskinned product about College Football i wouldn't have bought it. This ♥♥♥♥ sucks

After playing 25 and 26 for a combined 1700 hours, and well both of those games had there issues. Im in utter disbelief at how much worse they have made the game. Not even getting into micro transactions. Just the base game might be the worst "football sim" i have played. I guess ill try to go through and list stuff that is broken. But its honestly just the whole game. -QB passing accuracy has been reduced an insane amount. To the point where you can go perfect and the placement & accuracy meter and just consistently throw at the WRs knees or behind them. YAC in this game is virtually non existent unless every little thing goes perfect. -Pursuit by cpu defenders is broken as you can have a 95 speed 95 accel RB catch a drag and lose to and OLB who is behind him who only has 87 in both stats. -Run Game is not better really at all from the previous iterations because its really just hinged on an absurd amount of pancake blocks rather then any real scheme. Any Gap scheme in the game is mostly broken I.E. GT counter out of the USC play book. -Playbooks are now allowed to have 750 plays. Which in theory is cool. But in reality half of the plays literally do not work. If you ever play navy or any academy school you will see how broken stuff like the flexbone is. -Pass Coverage is hailed as much better this year which again in reality its extremely hollow gameplay. Heisman CPU has access to Ed Reed at every safety position who just dont have to pay attention to inside outside leverage and can make the craziest rangey catches you ever seen. While your secondary Sturggles to even get to the middle read on tampa 2 on a non match play. -Pass coverage (press man) breaks the game entirely. Im fine with the concept of getting jammed and being slower out of breaks and routes however. Bunch formations if pressed will just glitch out and run into and get stuck on eachother for multiple yards. On top of that press i guess just makes WRs forget how to route run. The WRs just stop trying to run the route there supposed to if pressed to hard -Pass blocking scheme is genuinely somehow worse then 25/26. Tackles lose to edges by literally just blanking if the edges or to wide. You have coddle your HB by IDing the Mike (extra Blitzer) for a six man protection. Which again in theory is fine however the mechanic does not work and the HB will glitch out if not IDd properly. On top of this your expected to learn Full Slide Half Slide untarget defenders. Which i think is fine for losers like me. However how is any of this fair to Father how just wants to unwind after a 10 hour shift. He will ran through 15 seconds of blocking checks just to have those blocking checks not matter because the game just stops working every play. I could go on and on about every little thing in this game that bothers me. Ultimately dont buy it. I will most likely put time into cuz im a CFB junkie and i have 0 other options. But fundamentally every aspect of this game sucks.

I, like many, was very excited to get the game on pc. Sports games are basically the only reason I still have a console. I was really looking to diving in to a new cfb after playing quite a bit of the previous 2 and madden for the last several years. I only play dynasty/rtg. I have never once played a cut/mut game. I'm still (not sure why) hopeful that maybe some patches will fix up the game and at least make it enjoyable even if its not going to be great. The Good: - NIL/teambuilding and recruiting is pretty solid. Its a fun puzzle to try to figure out who to pay and not pay and who you should really go after. - The teams all have some nice uni's and alts and the pregame cutscenes/rituals are all nice. - Teambuilder is pretty solid - Respectable framerate (usually between 60-90 at 1440) The Bad: - CPU doesnt know how to build teams. They don't know how to spend their NIL and 4 star recruits will just be left to go unsigned or take the 1 scholarship they were offered by a user team and show up in preseason. EA's answer was to just delete/reduce the number of 4 stars and increase the number of 2 stars. - The gameplay is so skewed to the cpu. - Your oline literally cannot pick up a blitz to save its life. No matter how you slide or block the rb they will still doubleteam the nt and let lbs just fly through untouched. - The cpu online and your dline ratings do not matter. The amount of time the cpu will just stand in a perfect pocket for 5+ seconds. It looks like teach tape for an online every single play. - The timing based catching seems incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes your 5'9 slot will moss a guy when you yellow it and sometimes your 6'5 platinum 50/50 wr will literally not leave the ground and will just flail his arms in the direction of the ball when you green it. - I swear the devs talked about a "look for work" addition to ai defense. I'm 99% sure that they turned this on for the cpu ai players but not for user ai players. They will just stand in their zones and literally do nothing. No matter how you have the coverage adjustments set (aggressive, conservative, plaster time all seem to do nothing for your ai teammates) while the cpu lbs will lock down wrs running at full speed within 1 step. - The user on defense seems incredibly nerfed compared to previous games. Maybe I'm just getting up there in years (36) but it seems like you almost dont count as an entity sometimes. Like trying to block in rtg and you will just kinda grind up against a guy and never actually engage an animation. Same with tackling on defense: sometimes you just bounce of even when holding wrap up tackle. - Sometimes it will take your cb 1.5 seconds before he reacts to the wr running past him off the line. Seems especially bad when the cpu runs slants against man coverage. The cb will literally just stand there and watch. -Even on 25 (down from default 50) the wear & tear is nuts. My backup rb was yellow after his 4th carry in the game in 4th quarter. Everyone is yellow by the end of the game no matter how much or little they practice in the weekly plan. - In game every punter boots the ball 65 yards. I saw a punter kick it 85 yards in the air. - Supersim is crazy: the amount of times ive seen 70 speed qbs break off 50+ yard tds or fumbles on kickoffs or 20 yard punts. - Constantly bounce off your own oline running. The runners don't get skinny like they should. - Nobody fumbles - Very few actual injuries, almost all w&t related. The Ugly: - Microtransactions are not great in general but you can tell it was a core part if the design of the game. Slower leveling/more expensive coach levels? Just buy some Legacy Problems that I cant believe haven't been fixed: - 2 way player stats still dont track - Depth chart is still locked in dynasty mode. I should be able to play my qb as a ledg if I want to - When playing a cb at wr their skills don't matter. A 99 everything will still just drop the ball for no reason. - Can't sub on kickoff. Why is my starting fb, 2nd rb, 2nd te, nickel cb, 3rd safety, 4th wr all on kick coverage? These are all starting/rotational people that i dont need covering kicks. - No long snappers? (Maybe I missed this) - Can't do formation subs for a custom playbook - Players still come back even after they ask you if you want to sub them out for injuries or w&t I couId probably keep going but eh. I doubt anyone will read this. This is my first ever steam review. This game just makes me sad. I had such high hopes for the game and now I really don't know where to get my sports game fix from. NHL is the same game every year. MLB has been fairly stagnant for a bit now. 2k is ok for the every few years that i buy it and Madden is ......well its Madden.

This game had everything it needed to be one of the best sports games in years. It had the hype, the community, the foundation, and enormous potential. Unfortunately, what should have been a great game has instead become another example of what feels like EA prioritizing profit over quality, innovation, and the community that keeps its games alive. The most frustrating part is that many of the problems with this game were completely avoidable. It isn't difficult to listen to the community when players are consistently asking for the same features, improvements, and quality-of-life changes. Instead, EA seems to repeatedly make decisions that limit the game's usefulness while creating more opportunities to monetize players. Rather than investing meaningful development time into making existing modes deeper, more functional, and more enjoyable, it feels like content and functionality are intentionally held back so they can be marketed later as features in another title. The modding community and TeamCrafters have made this even more obvious. Players have demonstrated just how much creativity and potential exists within this game when they are given the tools to do something with it. The community has essentially shown EA what is possible, yet EA continues to restrict what players can actually do within the official game. That makes it difficult not to believe that certain limitations aren't technical impossibilities, but deliberate decisions designed to keep players buying the next game. One of the most significant examples is Team Builder and Dynasty. Making Dynasty fully functional with offline Team Builder would have greatly enhanced the game's replayability and longevity. This approach could have fostered trust among players and encouraged future purchases. It would have allowed players to create their own teams, build custom conferences and dynasties, and continue enjoying the game without relying on online features. Instead, we're left with restrictions that detract from what could have been one of the game's greatest strengths. This is what makes the situation so disappointing. EA had the opportunity to create a sports game franchise that could have endured for years of future developments, thanks to its community and customization potential. This commitment could have extended beyond the current game and positively influenced future releases by building trust and ensuring players felt they would receive a high-quality product, rather than a simple rehash with a few extra features. Sadly, it seems the company continues to follow a familiar pattern: releasing a highly anticipated game, making only minimal improvements, monetizing the community whenever possible, withholding useful features, and then using some of those features to promote the next installment. At this point, I'm honestly glad I bought this game, not because I think it was worth the money, but because it showed me firsthand how EA manages its games and interacts with its community. Watching so much potential get wasted by decisions that seem completely avoidable has taken a lot of the enjoyment out of the game. This will be the last EA game I buy. I'm tired of supporting a company that seems more interested in maximizing short-term profit than building great games and giving its community the tools it has repeatedly asked for. The community has shown EA what it wants, modders have shown what is possible, and players have continued to support the franchise. The fact that EA still chooses to do the bare minimum with that opportunity says everything. A game with this much potential deserved better. Football deserved better.

As a fan who has not played since NCAA 14, I was very disappointed to see they took away the ability to edit or create new players outside of RTG. One of my favorite things to do in these games was create prospects, put them on random teams, and do dynasty mode. Now to be able to "create-a-player" you have to find a "fake" player and are only able to customize their attributes, name, and their gear. You are not even able to customize their appearance or change their number. It is honestly very disappointing to see that they were so focused on the microtransactions and making the game so hard to earn EXP without paying for it that they forgot the core features that their fans loved. I hope they consider adding more customization options for the rosters and learn from all the reviews.

Jared Kushner should be tried at the Hague for what he is doing to us