PS1 Game Review: NCAA Football 2001

 NCAA Football 2001 brought with it the end of an era of sorts.  This was the last NCAA game on the PS1 for EA Sports for football.  For EA Sports it struggled with the Bill Walsh and College Football USA series of games where they then went to change the title to NCAA Football for 1998.  Instantly they started seeing a lot of a reversal of fortune and they did a lot better overall.  For NCAA Football 2001, if you read my NCAA Football 2000 review you would see how I thought Offense was an issue and how defense was a major plus.  How does NCAA Football 2001 go in the last game on PS1 for EA Sports college football?

Positives:

1. Offense- This is a major plus and something that I noted that was a major negative on NCAA 2000 that completely changes.  Yes you have a few plays that you can dominate with but you also have a lot of plays that you can be successful with as well.  

2. Momentum bar- This was a cool new feature and it works.  If you are doing things well you have major momentum boosts and it makes it good overall for the game to know that you can gain and lose momentum due to mistakes overall.  It was a good thing to have overall.

3. Graphics/3D models- The latter is still really good but the graphics are still updated a bit and noted as really good overall.  The graphics for the field as well seem updated and it does well overall again in this edition of the game.

4. Presentation- Again very well done and something that is fantastic and done well overall.  From the overall presentation it was good all around, including the on-field broadcaster.  This game was done very well in that regard as well. 

5. Defense- Still can do defense well even with the offensive upgrades.  So they didn't go one with sacrificing the other position.  So overall they did both very well. 

Negatives:

1. Crowd- Again just really painted in with no major changes from NCAA Football 2000 in regards to this.  They were thinking about NCAA Football 2002 no doubt but would have been good overall.

Overall Rating:

This is a better overall game than NCAA Football 2000.  I would absolutely recommend this to every gamer and that includes the football gamers out there as well.  I would absolutely give this a good look and the game is quite well done overall.

Overall Rating: 9.4 out of 10.