Video game enjoyers have high expectations for EA Sports College Football 26, the second in a rebooted series for the sport’s diehards. FOX Sports’ RJ Young explored what could make this edition better than the last.
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You can admit if you’ve played EA Sports College Football 25. Players who walked into the lion’s den and were promptly dispatched in the video game aren’t alone. Young wasn’t a fan of how impactful the game’s home-field advantage feature was, making it nearly impossible to visit a venue such as Penn State’s Beaver Stadium or Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium and leave with a satisfying win.
“As good as we are as home teams, some of this is asinine when I’m looking at the squiggly lines,” Young said Tuesday on “Adapt & Respond with RJ Young.”
“It’s like, ‘Why don’t I just call three timeouts and just punt the ball? Because this is ridiculous.’ You’re inviting me to throw the ball to other people knowing damn well that I’m really good with this reticle. I’m really good at spinning it. I’m really good at running what I wanna run given the opportunity when the game ain’t cheating, but the game be cheating.”
Young also wondered how good one of the EA Sports College Football 26’s cover athletes, Ohio State’s receiver Jeremiah Smith, will be, comparing him to one of his teammates in the last edition, tailback Quinshon Judkins. Other standout avatars frustrated players the previous year.
“Another dude that I’m gonna be interested about, like, Oregon was OP last year because Dillon Gabriel had an awareness that was like Spider-Man,” Young said. “You could never get to him. He gets rid of the ball. What happens with Dante Moore back there? How good is Julian Sayin gonna be? Because the thing that made Will Howard cool for Ohio State was I could run with him.”
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Young said he won’t be very interested in playing Ultimate Team, which allows players to spend real money to buy card packs.
“We all know that we’re going to play with Ohio State or Alabama when we go play for national championships in that one game mode that is free,” Young said. “I gave up on playing the parts of the game where I’m creating my own team because it’s a money suck.
… It felt bad. It felt bad on my skin. So I’m gonna be playing way more against the tiers than I ever have going into this because I think that’s a really cool format and it works.”
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