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NCAA March Madness 06

Electronic Art's NCAA Basketball franchise returns with new and improved features for the 2005 season. The new lockdown stick allows you to force opponent's to make easier turnovers and make smoother passes to…

81 11 October 2005 ESRB E

NCAA March Madness 06 is a sport developed by EA Orlando, released 11 October 2005 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What NCAA March Madness 06 is

NCAA March Madness 06 is a sport game developed by EA Orlando and released in 2005. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Electronic Art's NCAA Basketball franchise returns with new and improved features for the 2005 season. The new lockdown stick allows you to force opponent's to make easier turnovers and make smoother passes to teammates. You can have your senior captain get your team into the game and get your crowd fired up to rattle your rivals into mistakes. With an much more updated dynasty mode you can now recruit Junior College players with updated stats to keep you ahead of your rivals and relive some of the greatest moments with College Classics and play up to 20 great games, repeating history or completely changing it.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the NCAA series

NCAA March Madness 06 is the 40th of 60 entries we hold in the NCAA series. The next entry was MVP 06: NCAA Baseball in 2006. Its critic score of 81 is 2 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is NCAA Football 10 at 90.

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How it was received

NCAA March Madness 06 holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

NCAA March Madness 06 launched on 11 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).

Quick answers

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When did NCAA March Madness 06 come out?
NCAA March Madness 06 was released on 11 October 2005 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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