The Operation Sports 2024 Game of the Year Is EA Sports College Football 25

[Steve_OS]

Heading into both the staff and community voting, it felt like a fait accompli that EA...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[underdog13]

Best video game representation of football I have ever played.

[Ghost Of The Year]

Hopefully the wildly successful CFB25 will inspire 2K to see if they can catch lightning in a bottle with a return of 2K Hoops in a couple years, and they will be standing here in January 2027 taking home this very same award.

[mellamoaaron]

CFB 25 is the best football game I have ever played.

[BadAssHskr]

Well deserved. Such an amazing game.

[MiracleMet718]

Definitely deserved, but I think it’s says more about how stale the rest of the sports gaming market is than how good the game actually is. It was a ton of fun for the first 2 months then got repetitive (and easy IMO). For a relaunch into the market though, it was nice to see. Hope they add a ton more features next year so it will win this title yet again.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Well deserved. MLB The Show been mailing it in the last handful of years. Same can be said for Madden and NBA 2K. FIFA been improving in some areas. NHL, I have zero idea what they are even trying to do anymore. The boxing game is extremely barebones. The UFC game keeps improving, they added what ? 30 fighters or so since that game came out years ago, every month lately they seem to be adding new fighters.

[GordoJ]

It's AI is flawed, it's got a ton of quirks and bugs, and is utterly barebones in a number of ways.

But hot damn I don't think I've enjoyed a sports game this much since I was a teenager with endless hours to play all day and night (I'm 40 now, btw)

I've never felt so compelled to keep playing a game, any game, in my life. No joke. I bought a PS5 for this game back on July 22.

I have not stopped playing until tonight (just won my second natty, I think I'm going to hang it up after 15 years coaching 5 different teams).

I have well over 330 hours in the game, and while I could make a list as long as your arm about all the little things (and some moderate things) that still bug me about it, no game has ever captivated me to this degree. It helps that College Football is by far my favorite sport, far moreso than the NFL, but someone up there said it best: MLB The Show has been mailing it in for years. Great game, built on a rock solid foundation, but my goodness I;ve been playing this same game, with very minor tweaks for over a decade.

I would LOVE if 2K was inspired to bring back College Hoops. The foundation is there. Obviously CBB is never going to be as big as CFB, but I guarantee it would be huge hit.