Product Description

NCAA March Madness 07 X360 Defend your home court and bring the crowd into the game like never before with NCAA March Madness 07. Rock the house, stifle your opponents with smothering defense, and create turnovers that lead to easy transition baskets on your way to victory. Intensity and home court advantage matter more than ever and can truly make a difference as you interact with your environment to get the place jumping. Will your players rise to the occasion or wilt under the pressure of charged-up, authentic college basketball atmospheres? Punch your ticket to the Final Four with NCAA March Madness 07.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6900 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15297
• Released on: 2007-01-17
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .24 pounds

Features

• Watch your players' Composure Meters -- losing Composure means you risk fouls and turning the ball over
• 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
• As your team wins more games, it'll appear on TV more often - making it easier to recruit top players and unlocking minigames
• Build up School Pride and use to earn new buildings, training facilities & even the right to rename local streets

Amazon.com

Defend your home court and bring the crowd into the game like never before with NCAA March Madness 07. Rock the house, stifle your opponents with smothering defense, and create turnovers that lead to easy transition baskets on your way to victory. Intensity and home court advantage matter more than ever and can truly make a difference as you interact with your environment to get the place jumping. Will your players rise to the occasion or wilt under the pressure of charged-up, authentic college basketball atmospheres? Punch your ticket to the Final Four with NCAA March Madness 07.

• Feel the Intensity—Player composure affects player performance based on ratings and personalities, and new Team Intensity Control lets players dynamically interact with the environment around them, influencing their success on the court.
• Authentic College Basketball—Experience the electricity of game night with school-specific fight songs, crowd chants and student sections, as well as public address announcers in authentic college arenas.
• Build Your "School Pride"—Take your program from a mid-major to a powerhouse. Expand your facilities, upgrade your campus, and earn the support of fans, alumni, and administration.
• Deeper Dynasty Mode—Sign McDonald’s High School All-Americans, manage your roster, and dominate conference rivals to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament or Postseason NIT.
• Get in the Game with "Broadcast Plus"—Live out the momentum-changing moments with ESPN on-court presentations that dramatically portray players with extreme close-ups and camera pans. Dick Vitale and Brad Nessler provide the insightful commentary.
• Complete ESPN Access—Get score updates, breaking news, and insightful commentary while playing online with ESPN Radio and the ESPN Sports Ticker.

Customer Reviews

Hoops Too Late? Or Too Soon?
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.

I shouldn't have waited to buy College Hoops
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.

EA has one thing right. JUNK
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