{"id":3934,"date":"2012-06-01T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2012-06-01T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:30:59","slug":"ncaa-football-13-enter-herschel-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/01\/ncaa-football-13-enter-herschel-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Football 13 \u2013 Enter Herschel Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swore (really) that I would pass on either this year\u2019s (i.e. 13) edition of NCAA Football or Madden. Ultimately I decided that I would skip out on NCAA Football and just do the \u201cyearly update thing\u201d with Madden 13. Then two things happed \u2026<\/p>\n<p>First, the Heisman Challenge mode includes the 1982 Heisman Trophy recipient, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easports.com\/ncaa-football\/feature\/heisman-challenge\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.easports.com\/ncaa-football\/feature\/heisman-challenge', 'Herschel Walker');\" target=\"_blank\">Herschel Walker<\/a>, from the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Amazon is offering the game for $44.99. I\u2019m a little disappointed that release day shipping (a staple of Amazon) hasn\u2019t been offered yet, but I\u2019m sure that will change in the coming weeks leading up to the July 10 release. Amazon is also offering some exclusive <a href=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/videogames\/EA\/NCAA13_Combat_Offer.jpg\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/01\/videogames\/EA\/NCAA13_Combat_Offer.jpg', 'Nike Pro Combat Uniforms');\" target=\"_blank\">Nike Pro Combat Uniforms<\/a>, which is not a big deal to me, but the overall deal (lower price, no sales tax, and free shipping) is hard to beat. Even with the \u201cother guys\u201d (i.e. GameStop) offering some bonus DLC, I cannot image that the DLC will cost more than $15, and even if it does, once you add in the sales tax and shipping, Amazon\u2019s offer made the purchase decision rather easy. \u00a0Besides, I\u2019ll be playing with Herschel \u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swore (really) that I would pass on either this year\u2019s (i.e. 13) edition of NCAA Football or Madden. Ultimately I decided that I would skip out on NCAA Football and just do the \u201cyearly update thing\u201d with Madden 13. Then two things happed \u2026 First, the Heisman Challenge mode includes the 1982 Heisman Trophy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2012\/06\/01\/ncaa-football-13-enter-herschel-walker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCAA Football 13 \u2013 Enter Herschel Walker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,9],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}