I feel confident in saying that for six years, College Hoops was by far the most underrated of all sports series - that started on the last-gen systems. This was back when the cover boy was Jay Maybe-I-Should-Not-Like Motorcycles-That-Much Williams. I have been playing the College Hoops series since it was called NCAA College Basketball 2K3. While I am glad to see that the extra staff brought over from College Hoops has paid off for the NBA game, I can’t help but feel a twinge of sadness for a series that I have had such a long history with. I was told by Erick that because the company was unable to reach a NCAA licensing agreement with the CLC for College Hoops, the company was able to combine forces to make NBA 2K9 the company's best basketball game yet. I was lucky enough to sit in on a conference call interview with Erick Boenisch, the lead feature designer, and Rob Jones, the gameplay director for NBA 2K9. (Just to clarify, I look at NCAA Football as the main course and Madden as the dessert, but I am a college sports fanatic.) I personally look at the yearly NBA 2K game that is released about a month before 2K’s College Hoops game the same way some people look at the NCAA Football series that's released a month before Madden: as an appetizer to keep my mind interested in a sport I enjoy until the real game (College Hoops) comes out. When I heard that 2K was not able to reach a licensing agreement with the Collegiate Licensing Company, I had to accept the fact that this was the end of an era - at least for now. I'm lamenting the fact that there is going to be another quality 2K college basketball sim for 2009. I am going to miss College Hoops 2K9 this year.
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