Deeper Game Delivers on Fans' Devotion to College Football
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Electronic
Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced today that EA
SPORTS™ NCAA®
Football 12 is now available in North American retail
stores. NCAA Football 12 connects players to the emotion of the
college gameday experience through unique presentation, including new
school traditions and animal mascots, along with an all-new collision
system that gives fans more control than ever before. With Road to Glory
mode and the new Coaching Carousel feature, NCAA Football 12 brings
unprecedented depth and authenticity to the journey of the
student-athlete and career path of a coach.
NCAA Football 12 delivers the pride and pageantry of game day
Saturday like never before with new presentation, including—for the
first time ever—animal mascots like Uga (Georgia), Bevo (Texas) and Mike
the Tiger (LSU). With new pre-game traditions like the Sooner Schooner
(Oklahoma), Ramblin' Wreck (Georgia Tech), Chief Osceola (FSU) and
Traveler with Trojan Rider (USC), plus an all-new momentum-based
collision system that allows fans to control their player up until the
moment of impact, the look and feel of NCAA Football 12 rises to
a whole new level.
Through the Road to Glory and Dynasty modes, fans have the ability to
experience the emotion of the college football journey as a high school
superstar, top student-athlete and even a head coach. In Road to Glory,
fans can now play both sides of the ball in high school while being
recruited by schools for each position. Entering college, fans must
choose which side of the ball to play on, then fight to keep their
starting job and earn their coach's trust to unlock extra abilities, all
while keeping sights set on becoming a Heisman trophy winner.
With the enhanced Dynasty mode, fans take the reigns as a coach and
manage their destiny through the new Coaching Carousel feature. Fans can
start as a coordinator or take over as head coach and begin a career
climbing the ranks of the coaching ladder on a mission to lead their
dream team to the coveted national championship.
Over the past several years, the NCAA Football franchise has been
praised for providing fans with unparalleled options to customize their
college football experience. NCAA Football 12 continues the
franchise tradition with the introduction of custom conferences. The
feature allows fans to realign and expand conferences up to 16 teams,
create conference schedules and even decide BCS bowl tie-ins.
TeamBuilder, NCAA Football's online create-a-school feature,
which allows fans the ability to upload logos and choose numerous
customization options for uniforms, fields, and rosters, contains more
than one million fan-created teams that can be used in NCAA Football
12.
Fans interested in a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of NCAA
Football 12 can tune into ESPNU beginning July 14th at
7:00pm EDT for "The Making of EA SPORTS NCAA Football 12
Presented by Coke Zero". Produced by Greenpoint Pictures, Inc., the four
part documentary series chronicles the process of making the
award-winning game from start to finish. The show not only takes viewers
inside EA's studio in Orlando, Florida, but also follows the development
and marketing teams to events in cities around the nation to provide an
unprecedented look at how the dedicated team at Tiburon brings the
sights and sounds of college football to the franchise's devoted fan
base.
Developed in Orlando, Fla., by EA Tiburon, and licensed through
collegiate trademark agency The Collegiate Licensing Company, a division
of IMG Worldwide, NCAA Football 12 is now available for the Xbox
360® video game and entertainment system and the PlayStation®3 computer
entertainment systems. NCAA Football 12 has been rated "E" for
everyone by the ESRB.
For more information, please visit http://www.ea.com/ncaa-football
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) is a global leader in digital interactive
entertainment. The Company's game franchises are offered as both
packaged goods products and online services delivered through
Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and
tablets. EA has more than 100 million registered players and operates in
75 countries.
In fiscal 2011, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.6 billion.
Headquartered in Redwood City, California, EA is recognized for
critically acclaimed, high-quality blockbuster franchises such as The
Sims™, Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer, Need for Speed™, Battlefield, and Mass
Effect™. More information about EA is available at http://info.ea.com.
About EA SPORTS
EA SPORTS™ is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the
world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive
technology, global videogame competitions and breakthrough digital
experiences. EA SPORTS delivers experiences that ignite the emotions of
sport through industry-leading sports simulation videogames, including Madden
NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA ELITE
basketball, NCAA® Football and NCAA Basketball, Fight
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About the NCAA
The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and
universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities
for more than 400,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member
colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes
compete in NCAA Championships in Division I, II and III sports. For more
information, go to www.ncaa.org.
About The Collegiate Licensing Company
CLC is a division of global sports and entertainment company IMG.
Founded in 1981, CLC is the oldest and largest collegiate trademark
licensing agency in the U.S. and currently represents nearly 200
colleges, universities, bowl games, athletic conferences, The Heisman
Trophy and the NCAA. The mission of CLC is to be the guiding force in
collegiate trademark licensing and one of the top sports licensing firms
in the country. CLC is dedicated to being a center of excellence in
providing licensing services of the highest quality to its member
institutions, licensees, retailers and consumers. Headquartered in
Atlanta (Ga.), CLC is a full-service licensing representative, which
employs a staff of more than 80 licensing professionals who provide
full-service capabilities in brand protection, brand management, and
brand development. For more information on CLC, visit: www.clc.com
or www.imgworld.com.
About NCAA Football
NCAA Football USA, Inc. represents a coalition of the American Football
Coaches Association (AFCA), the Collegiate Commissioners Association
(CCA), the Football Bowl Association (FBA), the National Association of
Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the National Collegiate
Athletics Association (NCAA) and the National Football Foundation (NFF)
and serves as the collective voice to promote college football. Visit www.NCAAFootball.com
for more information.
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Electronic Arts
Julie Foster, 407-386-5184
Communications
Manager
jfoster@ea.com
Rob
Semsey, 407-386-5337
Communications Director
rsemsey@ea.com
Source: Electronic Arts Inc.
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