Today, the five nominees for Best Sports/Racing Game for 2024’s The Game Awards were announced. Fans of the five nominees were incredibly excited to see some of the best releases of this year being honored with this nomination. However, many sports video game fans were left scratching their heads as one of the biggest games in the genre was left off the list of nominees this year.
College Football 25 Snubbed
Despite being one of the most hyped up and best selling games of the year, College Football 25 found itself on the outside looking in for The Game Awards this year. Now fans of the game know how Florida State fans felt last year. So in college football fashion, let’s take a look at the game’s resume, and see if it truly deserved to be nominated or not.
College Football 25 was the first entry in the beloved series from EA Sports since 2013. In the leadup to the game’s release, the hype for the return of the series was off the charts. We had never seen a sports game be this anticipated. Any mention of the game online instantly got tons of views. For months fans scratched and clawed for even the slightest bit of news about the game.
Best-Selling Sports Game
This incredible hype led to incredible sales when the game released. College Football 25 was not only the best selling sports game of the year in the United States, it was the best selling football game in the US of all-time. According to Mat Piscatella, Executive Director & Video Game Analysts at Circana, College Football 25 is the second best selling sports video game in the US, trailing only NBA 2K21. Piscatella said in a reply to his post on Blue Sky announcing the sales that College Football 25 was likely to pass NBA 2K21 by the end of the year.
We have established that the game was incredibly hyped up and sold incredibly well. But these are not necessarily proof of the quality of the game. The question remains, was College Football 25 a good enough game to warrant a nomination this year? To determine that, we need to look at reviews.
Critic Reviews
In our review of the game, we scored College Football 25 a 9/10. We loved the amount of passion and immersion that was poured into the game. The unique traditions and chants for each of the 134 FBS teams included in the game really brought the atmosphere of college football to life. The new recruiting system in Dynasty mode made the process of turning a small school into a powerhouse much more realistic. The gameplay was an incredible breath of fresh air compared to recent Madden NFL entries.
But don’t just take our word for it. On Metacritic, College Football 25 has a critic review score of 83. This is higher than any of the five games nominated for Best Sports/Racing Game this year. College Football 25 also has a user score on Metacritic of 5.4 This is higher than three of the five games nominated this year.
Over on OpenCritic, College Football 25 has an 81 Top Critic Average and an 85% Critics Recommend rating. Both of these scores are again higher than any for the five games nominated this year.
In conclusion, College Football 25 got more people excited, sold better, and reviewed better than any of the five games nominated for Best Sports/Racing Game at The Game Awards this year. The decision to not nominate College Football 25 is inexcusable, and carries on a tradition of this category receiving puzzling choices in recent years. For years fans of asked for the Sports and Racing categories to be split in two, allowing for more games to be nominated each year. Perhaps this great game being left off will finally convince The Game Awards to make this much requested change.
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