
Computer-controlled teammates play abysmal defense, even on lower difficulties. There's some lag at times, typical of EA's games, especially on the Blake Griffin load-screens and the intro to games. The graphics are pretty good, as are the stat overlays and general "TV feel." The college basketball atmosphere is captured well. Game AI is better than past games, but it would be nice to see the AI learn from my consistent offense and defenses. I can't give this an "excellent" rating because the presentation is way too repetitive. I haven't tried online play, but it did find rivals of the team I selected, so it appears it works fine. I'd rather get to the main dynasty menu with the option of shooting around if I like. They keep sending me back to the single guy shooting hoops on a court after the game is done. I'm not really liking the menu system though. Buildings are fairly accurate to some extent.

Both are repetitive but since the CBS portion is new, my guess is they didn't record as much dialog as ESPN had done over the years because they keep saying the same thing over and over. You get to choose which one calls your game. This year, they added CBS broadcaster play-by-play to the existing ESPN voices. Overall, improvements are made each year that make it attractive to purchase. I've been playing NCAA Basketball from EA Sports (PS3) for years (PS2 version before that).
