The new recruitment system in Dynasty mode provides you with the most in-depth recruiting process ever found in this game. You target 35 prospects and have to constantly communicate with them to try and bring them to your school. Good luck on bringing a 5 star to a no name school though. The system is implemented very nicely. Like I said, bigger programs get the studs while 1,2,3 and even 4 star programs are found collecting all the leftovers. Either way, with 14 topics to discuss with your player you can find out if your school is a match with him and you can sway him to sign before visiting your rival school that is 2 stars higher than you. Guess who wins that one if the prospect goes for a visit? Anyways, bad memories… moving on. While the system is creative and very deep, there are still some flaws with it. For example, a player might not be interested at all on a topic but you hard sell it to them and they are ecstatic to hear about it. Its minor little things that should have been polished so you don’t find yourself puzzled half way through the season asking yourself what the heck just happened. Also, something rather discouraging is the fact that medical red shirts were not included in this program nor can you run your players through drills to control their progress. Instead, the progress made is random and leaves you with a restricted control over your players.

Poor Linemen didn’t even have a chance

The Campus Legend mode is an inclusion that was not there last year and is very fun to play through.  One of the best things is getting to play your prospect’s state playoffs during his senior year in high school. Your play there determines your prospect’s caliber as different scouts come and check out your performance. Aside from making a big splash on the field and practicing to become the starter on the team, or if you are the starter on the team, to sharpen up your skills for the upcoming week, you also need to take care of your academics if you want to keep playing ball. Overall, this mode is quite nice besides the occasional camera angles that sometimes get in the way and the fact that it is ridiculously easy to beat. One odd thing that happened to me and I have not heard it happen to anyone else, during the high school playoffs, an apparent glitch made my players and the opposing team run around in circles tackling each other. The ball had disappeared and we where just running around like monkeys which forced me to turn off my console and restart the game. This was quite hysterical but it also cost me the game since there was about 1 minute left in the fourth quarter. This never happened again though, maybe I just got lucky and unlocked a hidden bonus (Lol at that).