College Football 25: EA Sports Details the Immersion Created by College Sights, Sounds, and Tradition [IGN]

EA Sports continues its week-long push to provide new information on College Football 25, with today’s deep dive revealing how the development team incorporates sights and sounds to give the game an authentic and immersive experience.

EA revealed five key features highlighting how it captured the traditions, unique details, sights, and sounds across all 134 Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision schools. These include Authentic Gameday Experiences, Detailed Traditions, Motion Capture Efforts, Mascots, and Turnover Traditions.

To capture the spirit of a college football game, EA Sports said it provided pre-game atmospheres with crowd chants and team runouts. A few notable examples include Clemson University’s run down The Hill before the start of the game or Notre Dame’s tradition of tapping the “Play Like a Champion Today” sign before running out the tunnel.

With those authentic experiences, EA Sports revealed that it even built props and sets to provide accurate motion capture for some of these traditions, using real people and stunt actors to get the most realistic movement possible.

EA Sports said it didn’t neglect the unique turnover traditions at some schools either. These include Pitt’s turnover hoop, Oregon State’s Chainsaw, and the Alabama Ball Out Belt. Some of these traditions are briefly seen in the official reveal trailer for College Football 25.

Of course, mascots are also a big component of college football atmospheres, traditions, and spirit. College Football 25 will feature 50 mascots in the game, 40 of them being costumed mascots such as Wake Forest’s Demon Deacon and Ohio State’s Brutus Buckeye. There will also be 10 real mascots, like Texas’ Bevo, the longhorn steer, or Uga, the bulldog from the University of Georgia.

College Football 25 will be released on July 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. For more, check out our hands-on preview, how Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals will be incorporated into the game, and yesterday’s news story where EA revealed the top 25 toughest stadiums to play in College Football 25.

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