Broadcast Quality
Think about the best broadcast presentation of any sports game and "NFL 2K5" instantly comes to mind. EA is hoping to add "NCAA Basketball 10" into that conversation with not one, but two different network affiliations.
"We have full ESPN broadcast integration for the first time," says Dougan. "It looks exactly like you see on television. All of the intros, fly-ins, movies, graphics, announcers [Dick Vitale, Brad Nessler, Erin Andrews] … all of that stuff you see on ESPN will be in 'NCAA Basketball 10.' Not to mention, we're also doing CBS Sports integration. So that means we'll have two new announcers for the CBS team and that's Gus Johnson and Bill Rafferty. They'll be calling the games along with all of the CBS Sports broadcast packages. So if you're playing through your Dynasty mode, your Monday through Friday games will generally be on ESPN, but your big weekend games will be on CBS Sports. Conference tournaments will switch between the two broadcasts depending on who owns the rights to that specific tournament, and then, of course, the NCAA basketball tournament is broadcast on CBS. It's an evolving broadcast package that will look different from the start of the season to the end of the season. We were really excited just to have one broadcast partner, but by having both, it really brings things over the top and looks amazing.
"Add to that the fact that we got Gus Johnson to do all of his signature stuff like "The slipper still fits!" and "Last chance to dance" as only Gus Johnson can say it, and it's a pretty compelling package. It was fun to sit in on the session and watch him go crazy. I love the announcers in the game this year. It's new, it's exciting, it's Gus."
