Same goes for the folks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Bloomington, Indiana. The fans in Syracuse - at 30,000-plus strong in the Orange Dome - are rabid about their team. Instead of just tossing in the new additions from this year's NBA game into its college title, it wisely decided to develop new features specifically for its NCAA game.Īnd the major new development is the 6th Man Meter. We were pleased to see that developer Visual Concepts continues to understand the differences between the pro and college games. To its credit, the game does some things right. If 2K Sports' College Hoops 2K8 was an ailing matador and not just a sub-par basketball sim, someone would be dealing with the business end of some bull's horns. Well, just be thankful that this is a game review and not one of Hemingway's depressing jags. As gamers, we're now seeing it on a regular basis as the dated PS2 hardware attempts to bring life to venerable franchises for those who haven't made the jump to next-gen consoles. The once-great-but-now-aging athlete attempting to recapture a hint of his past glory: sports fans have seen it hundreds of times and it's the subject of at least half of Hemingway's stories.
