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NCAA March Madness 07
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 14 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Canada
Genre(s): Sports, Basketball
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: January 17, 2007
Summary
NCAA March Madness 07 delivers an authentic college basketball gameplay experience by offering custom playbooks for each team through the Floor General Playcalling system, the EA SPORTS Lockdown Stick that allows your players to pressure the ball, force turnovers and harass opponents on the court, and an enhanced Dynasty Mode with new School Pride and Recruiting features that let you build your school into a national powerhouse. In addition, the popular voices of college basketball are back with ESPN’s Dick Vitale and Brad Nessler calling the action courtside. With the most advanced ESPN integration package available in NCAA March Madness 07, fans connected online via Xbox LIVE can watch college basketball game highlights, segments from Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn, interviews and analysis from SportsCenter, and more. Fans can also download and listen to ESPN radio podcasts as they play NCAA March Madness 07, including segments from Dan Patrick, Mike & Mike, Stephen A. Smith and others. All this is in addition to live ESPN Radio SportsCenter updates every 20 minutes, the ESPN Ticker and ESPNews. [Electronic Arts]
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What The Critics Said
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GameZone
A great first entry for the series on the Xbox 360, with great dynamic gameplay and a robust Dynasty mode. Far and away the best basketball game EA has released for a next-gen system.
Read Full Review >PGNx Media
NCAA March Madness 07 has a few gameplay issues. If you list them, they do add up but in practice the game is enjoyable and will prove fun to all but the most picky of gamers.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
If you are a big-time college hoops aficionado, I believe you’ll be able to look past the flaws of this game and appreciate the college atmosphere and intensity it brings. EA is definitely on the right track.
Read Full Review >Armchair Empire
While NCAA March Madness 07 isn’t without flaws in both its gameplay and presentation values, there certainly is a vast improvement from the franchise’s final appearance on the original Xbox last year.
Read Full Review >IGN
Madness 07 is a great first entry on the 360, but there is plenty of room for improvement. In the end, Madness is a fun, good basketball game worth a look.
Read Full Review >Game Informer
The impressive Dynasty mode and new Team Intensity Mode (which lets you track and alter the individual momentum of your players) offer some interesting strategic aspects to the game, but in the end March Madness still ends up a few baskets short of its competition.
Read Full Review >Planet Xbox 360
The choppy animations, quirky menu navigation, bad officiating, and poor commentary are enough to undo the great strides EA made in the graphics and controls.
Read Full Review >XboxAddict
The sounds and music in this game are authentic right down to the announcers.
Read Full Review >Detroit Free Press
From a strong matchmaking system to a deep dynasty mode that largely mirrors EA's NCAA football game, March Madness does a good job bringing the energy of college hoops home.
Read Full Review >Gamer 2.0
It’s quick to pick up and play, and All-American difficulty will make you strain for a win, but with a $60 price tag, this is only for the most die hard of fans.
Read Full Review >Team Xbox
The intensity additions are all well and good, but the basic gameplay engine and A.I. system needs looked at a bit closer.
Read Full Review >DailyGame
The bells, whistles and added off-court content are nice additions, but the game suffers from some nagging on-court issues that should have been addressed before the extra stuff.
Read Full Review >eToychest
It’s definitely not a terrible game, but it’s never going to rise to the level of some of EA’s other sports titles unless it’s put under the microscope and seriously reexamined.
Read Full Review >DarkStation
March comes early on the 360 with EA's first efforts on the console. It has some nice touches and gameplay tweaks, but nothing too impressive.
Read Full Review >GameDaily
By dodging most of its NBA Live pitfalls, the company created a solid basketball game that does tremendous things for the sports genre, yet still fails to best the competition.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Most of the massive problems that have plagued next-gen versions of Live have receeded, leaving a game that's fun, accessible, and while flawed, full of enough personality.
Read Full Review >Games Radar (in-house)
This season it doesn't quite have all the fundamentals down pat, but another semester's worth of schooling and polish should help the next outing. Ultimately, it's a solid (if unspectacular) hoops title that deserves a look.
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
If you want a straightforward simple game of college basketball with nice graphics, March Madness is the one for you. But overall, 2K7 is the more complete college game.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Beneath numerous flaws there's a decent basketball game in March Madness 07, but you've got to dig too deep to find it.
Read Full Review >1UP
It's a distant No. 2 to this year's unquestionably better "College Hoops 2K7."
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
The title is plagued with too many issues to be a big contender this year, which is a shame because the core gameplay is a lot of fun, proving that this series, like the young NBA hopefuls, is full of great promise and potential.
Read Full Review >GameTrailers
Easily the best NCAA basketball option out there. It does so much right that even the frustrating scoring issues can’t really kill the experience.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
It's a solid effort, but it just doesn't have the minute-by-minute gravity of 2K7's college game. [Feb. 2007, p.89]
Official Xbox Magazine
Like Live 06, it has some core goodness, but it just needs some TLC. [Feb. 2007, p.79]
Operation Sports
Even with those changes, the game doesn’t come close to the competition.
Read Full Review >MS Xbox World
It’s easy to see that March Madness 2007 is not the best college basketball game on the market. It’s not even close.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
If you are a die-hard College Hoops fan, then you will find NCAA March Madness 07 fun enough to forgive its flaws and less than aggressive A.I.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
EA has made some great strides in the right direction with March Madness 07, but when it comes to being able to hit the clutch shot in overtime to win it all, March Madness 07 falls short.
Read Full Review >Digital Entertainment News
March Madness 07 will make you mad it’s March and the only college hoops game you own is this one; stick with "College Hoops 2K7."
Read Full Review >GameShark
If you have "College Hoops" and enjoy it, you really should fight the urge to spend a few bucks even on a rental of March Madness 07. It just doesn’t hold up well, and is nowhere near as deep or as enjoyable as its competition.
Read Full Review >Game Revolution
The selection of modes is weak. In the 360 game, you can only play through the dynasty mode or a single game or tournament. There is no single-season option or practice options. No mini-games either.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
O'Lee W. gave it a10:
March Madness is better than the collage hoops the way the fans get like after they score is the real deal.
Big Dog gave it a10:
By far the best basketball sim on the 360 to date. Although, the commentary is a bit annoying *wink.....i have a few complaints on recruits ...sometimes they just simply disappear lol. But all in all a much better game then NBA Live love the atmosphere.
John M. gave it a3:
Really a crap game. EA is truly slipping. How could they release such a bad game when 2K7 was already out there and 10 times better.
Huevos B. gave it a5:
Graphics stink, controls are no good, don't get it, 2K7 college hoops is way better. Download the 2k7 demo and you'll see. I was playing in Rupp Arena and Vitale kept saying, "Welcome to Loisville Kentucky".
A S gave it a3:
Choppy framerate. Unrealistic play. Better graphics in comparision to Collge Hoops 2K7 but the trade off is awkward gameplay. Good representation of college atmosphere that sets it apart from NBA Live. If your priority is great graphics then March Madness should be your choice. If your looking for fun, College Hoops is the right way to go this year.
Kyle A. gave it a9:
Great core basketball. Love the new features, but the school pride (more cheerleaders,student section, larger crowds, bigger band)is a little difficult to figure out. They should include some sort of instruction.
Brysonic V. gave it a10:
Love the intensity meter... art is very cool and authentic.
