
In Legacy, the coach the user plays as has coach ratings in different areas such as: Offense, for increasing the offensive awareness of your team's players Defense, for increasing the defensive awareness of your team's players Scouting, your coach's ability to create game preparations for the teams you are playing against in a week, updated every week Charisma, used for recruiting high school and junior college recruits as well as increasing the morale of the players on your roster and Discipline, used for making your coaching emphases more effective when used during played games, with several other categories. The user can coach for as long as they would like and does not face any possibility of termination from their university. In Open Legacy, the user can choose any school and begin their legacy. If your coach is successful, you can play for as long as 40 years before retirement, and receiving a pop-up message after the postseason awards in the year 2048 from the game itself, congratulating you on your career before taking you back to the main menu. The user has the ability to get fired from their head coaching position at a university, forcing them to only be able to accept lower-tier coaching positions that may offer them, with the possibility of not receiving any coaching offers after termination, leading to the user's retirement, and forcing them back to the main menu. They would, however, miss out on various goals, as described in the next paragraph, that would allow their coach to increase in ability. The goal for the user is almost always to take one of these universities of their choosing and perform well enough as the head coach to move on to a more prestigious university, though nothing prevents the user from staying at their beginning university for as long as they'd like. In Career Legacy, the user is allowed to choose between only a hand-selected group of universities, each ranked towards the bottom of their respective athletic conferences. In this type of campaign, the user has the option of going with Career Legacy or Open Legacy. Over 328 division 1 teams, authentic jerseys and arenas.Tournament Mode (customize, NCAA, and conference).However, EA Sports continued licensing rights from the NCAA to make college basketball games until they too discontinued their college basketball game series, in 2010.

COLLEGE HOOPS 2K8 GAME STOP LICENSE
The College Hoops series was put on hiatus in 2008 as 2K Sports declined to seek the college license for a 2K9 release. The announcers/commentators featured in the game were Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery. The real coaches feature was dropped from this game, possibly because the coaches chose not to renew their contracts and all of the coaches are unnamed. The game also featured the ability to change and modify rosters and share them online via the newly introduced 2K Share feature. Also, Centenary College of the Summit League was unlicensed and instead named UL-Calcutta. Not included were Presbyterian College and North Carolina Central, D-1 independents. The cover features Greg Oden, formerly of the Ohio State Buckeyes.Īlmost every school competing in Division I NCAA college basketball at the time was included in 2K8, including recent additions South Carolina-Upstate, Cal State-Bakersfield and Florida Gulf Coast. It was released on Novemfor the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3. College Hoops 2K8 is a video game by Visual Concepts and 2K Sports.
