Summer has only just begun, but college football fans are already eager to get back to campus EA Sports College Football 25. The upcoming game marks the return of the franchise after a nearly decade-long absence, and will be the first game in the series to feature officially licensed player likenesses, thanks NIL money and a massive campaign to pay players to appear in the game. On Friday, EA made a huge dive into the game’s ridiculous number of new features, and the ways it plans to create the most realistic college football experience ever, both on and off the field.
With real players in the game for the first time, a lot of it College Football 25The game’s new features focus on highlighting what sets the best players in the sport apart from everyone else. The game features a variety of player traits that will improve gameplay, such as better reacting to high-pressure situations and being able to identify approaching blitzers. At launch, there will be over 80 of these features in the game, as well as different levels for each of them.
The game will also feature an extensive new injury system called Wear and Tear, which shows the specific injury effects of each play, and how much a player’s risk of injury increases. While this is important during games, it’s even more important in modes like Dynasty, where you run an entire college football program and have to take care of your players from game to game.
One of the ways the game seems to be a big departure from the Madden franchise also applies to college football versus the NFL: there’s a lot more variety in playbooks. College Football 25 already seems quite committed to preserving the individuality and idiosyncrasies of the 134 schools in the game. There’s a detailed option system in the game, including a Flexbone formation with Air Force’s signature triple option. There’s a new feature that allows players to pull the ball back and run with it in the middle of a so-called reverse, and EA even emphasizes a wide formation, a key component for Oklahoma.
EA also takes the time to note how important real-life tradition is to game presentation College Football 25. Every stadium and fanbase in college football has its own unique rituals, and EA has tried to capture as many of them as possible for the game, licensing certain songs for team walkout music (although not every number could be secured), and including fan traditions like Tennessee’s whiteout. All of this serves not only to recreate the authentic highlights of a college home game, but also to reinforce the game’s new emphasis on home advantage, with the ridiculously loud stadiums making it harder for the away team to concentrate on things like playing matches. warm routes.
These are just some of the new features that EA Sports announced for the game on Friday. To see more of the features, EA put together a short gameplay video narrated by sports reporter Kirk Herbstreit, as well as a very in depth blog post detailing each of the game’s new systems in detail.
EA Sports College Football 25 will be released on July 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series