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If you're tired of Madden already — and, as someone who currently has the Buzzsaw in the NFC Championship game at Philadelphia in franchise mode, we are certainly not that — you could be in luck: There's now a video game about traditionally black college football.
The best part about it: You get to be a member of the marching band!
"Step into the boots of a drum major: Halftime offers no respite as you suit up, grip your baton and lead your band of musical maestros through intricate formations as the crowd roars in amazement. It's the Battle of the Bands: Win this and you just might give your team what it needs to prevail in the second half."
You can see a trailer for the game here. That looks really fun, though we wonder if we can somehow transfer Wes Welker to the game.
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Look! Look! Look at my crotch!
Look! Look! Look at my crotch!
If its anything like the Battle of the Bands I attended, 90% of the schools will be playing an OutKast song or 3.
@Suss--: Can you play as Mr. B Natural?
aka: Madden '94
@Suss--: +MST3K
Nick Cannon approves. Although come to think of it, no one asked him...
I'm a Q-Tip, what are you?
Hit um with a little "Flight of the Bumblebee"
/Orlando Jones
It's pretty much the same as any other college football game except the punters and kickers really suck. And players have a "behavior" ranking that judges their likelihood to be dismissed mid-season for off-the-field conduct.
Can you make the players give the OMEGA sign when they score?
Can you Stomp the Yard before a bowl game?
* NB -- game not available for sale in the Greater Boston area.
If you take some HGH, you can grip your baton better.
@Lady Andrea: or at least that's what Wade Wilson heard.
Can I virtually fingerbang clarinet players in the back of the band bus?
No?
Does it also come with a branding iron and complete set of Greek letter attachments?
@PenskeMaterial: all of New England, to be precise.
Old England, too.
I was raised to believe that there's nothing wrong with spinning your virtual baton, in fact, it's a healthy part of life.
Can you reach the bonus round and have your guy dot the "i"? I guess more importantly: does Ohio even have black people in their band?
@Rob Iracane: that was you?
@BigTDog:
Drumline >>>>>>> Stomp the Yard
Is this a Spike Lee Joint?
Those graphics look niiiiiiiiice
Can you to other dorm rooms and steal computers also? What about using others credit cards? No..this game sucks
"Can I virtually fingerbang clarinet players in the back of the band bus?
No?"
Keep your Friday night Myspace plans to yourself.
FAM WHO? FAMU!!
Scoop Jackson thinks that white people playing this game are just looking for another way to control blacks.
@Rob Iracane: If you purchase the Freaknik expansion pack...absofuckinlutely.
PC only? I suspect a conspiracy to keep the righteousness off the PS3 and 360.
Guess the console systems can't handle stomping.
LOL, Black QBs...fa realz
Ned is interested in this game.
"kick the ball
hit the dirt
get up white boy
you ain't hurt"
@jwaves: Sounds like alot of emotion coming out you right now...
john rocker will be buying this game when it comes out just so you know he's really not racist.
please don't let mr. limbaugh see this one... this one might push him over the edge...
We can finally settle the score between the Morris Brown College Wolverines and the Tougaloo Bulldogs. And their bands.
Where is my Wii Drumline game?
every game starts 15 minutes late... you know b/c black people are never on time
crickets/
@Civil Negligence: Racist. Columbus is the whitest big city in America. Bench Ankiel.
@Unregular:
No not really just a disgruntled ILLINI fan.
Will the game have a historic moments mode?
Because I have always wanted to go back in time and extend Prairie View A&M's 80-game losing streak in football.
@jwaves:
Press "X" repeatedly to run faster from the cops. Pressing "Y" will hop the fence, while "A" will throw the crack into the bushes. Tap "A" to lob the crack, hold and release "A" for a quick throw.
Black people attending college in the South? Why, this will kill Jerry Falwell when he finds out!
Over under 50 times a game the announcer uses the canned "And he's surprisingly well spoken" line.
Will Stuart Scott officiate during the game?
I can't wait to see the screen shots of "band formations" that people perform. I am imagining two "O"s with dots in the middle, or a cock'n'balls, maybe even a middle finger if you're really good. It'll be like an etch-a-sketch video game.
does the game involve being unceremoniously raped by a D-I football powerhouse from the south during week 1?
@theslacker: Ned made this game.
This game is only worth 3/5ths as much as Madden '08 when traded in at GameSpot.
surprisingly the only celebrity voice they could get to do the announcing was Lamar Thomas, but he was the only one with enough street cred to pull it off anyway...
@theslacker: up-up, down-down, left-right, left-right, B-A, select, start gets you 99 get out of jail free cards.
Wow, judging by the direction of these comments, Will may need to enact an affirmative action commenter plan...
@Tuffy: ouch. +0.4
@Tuffy: and then it gets put in "Jim Crow" bin
I'm still waiting for a video game featuring Division 3 football teams. I would love to see a Union College-Mt. Union College match-up.
In Spike Lee Mode the lighter skinned players fight the darker skinned players
Is Bruce Jenner a playable character?