Campus Legend is actually fun

[D-Mac]

I started a running back campus legend with a fast little white guy scat back. I was a four star recruit and and signed to Penn State as a fourth string and 5 games into the season my 99 speeder is now a starter. Id have to admit this is the most addicting mode I've played which is odd because I've always hated campus legend and stuff.

[cooljayhu]

my only issue is that if you practice every day your a starter by like the 3rd game when you started like 15 points behind the starter.

[D-Mac]

cooljayhu said:

my only issue is that if you practice every day your a starter by like the 3rd game when you started like 15 points behind the starter.

Ya thats mine too.

[Sportsbuck]

I only play the high school games. After that, I back out and go back to my dynasty.

I'm not much for single player modes.

[D-Mac]

i only played the HS games at first also but I decided to try out college and I love it. Seriously ive been playing for 6 hours now lol.

[USN]

play as a defensive player if you want a challenge

[ryandman89]

even though i don't have 08, in 07 I love to play as a defensive back. It is really challenging and I've learned how to cover better than the computer. It takes some time to get used to it and good at it, but it's fun to work on. Plus I love the words..."user interception".

[D-Mac]

ya i have one with a FS coverage is pretty hard, Ive yet to get pickumms yet but i love making those big hits.

[robino2001]

I just started mine - I didn't realize they put real HS's in there for the playoffs

[Sportsbuck]

They don't...

It's just the names of real towns in there.

[robino2001]

they do if all of the colors are right....

[Sportsbuck]

They just use the uniform combinations that you don't choose for your guy.

[robino2001]

Well in the 4 games I played, I played 4 schools with accurate color combinations... I remember 8-10 color combinations possibilities (if it's 16, then you could be right)... therefore the odds of 4 schools being accurate on my roll through the playoffs was 1 in 4000 to 10000, if 16 combos - then 1 in 65k...

therefore, it's pretty safe to say they are patterned after the real school... at least for texas they are

[sep]

For Texas, they probabaly are. Wouldn't shock me.

[JacktheRipper]

They are not for Louisiana and Alabama, that much I can tell you.

[Chief Bstn]

They don't even have actual high schools (I think DB told me Detroit High was fictional), so colors would be out of the question.

[detroitbasketball]

notrelame said:

They don't even have actual high schools (I think DB told me Detroit High was fictional), so colors would be out of the question.

This is true. From what I've seen, they simply take available cities and paste on a "High School" after them and the colors are random.

[robino2001]

Well as I said - I saw what I saw.... maybe it's Texas only. 15 of the 16 HS's were either a legit name, or one was Southlake for Southlake Carroll HS, and yes, they were green and white. There was no SA high, Dallas high, etc... all reasonably big time/playoff tradition teams from all levels. As I said before, look at the math...

The only one of the 16 in my bracket not legit was West Odessa which I interpret as Odessa Permian (as opposed to Odessa HS), and yes, they were black and white (as most of y'all should know). Someone can count the color options for me... I remember ~10, and as I said, the odds of the four HS's coincidentally lining up correctly was 1 in 10000.

[Sportsbuck]

I seriously doubt EA would take the time to get so detail oriented that they got the name and color combinations correct for only Texas high schools. Heck, they even messed up on a few college jerseys.

[D-Mac]

None of the teams in the kansas bracket where the ones who made it in real life.