More details are out via EA Sports ahead of July’s release of the much-anticipated College Football 25 video game. In addition to pre-order opportunities, which allow gamers to play the game a few days before the official street date, a new collector’s edition option from GameStop comes in a “Homecoming Pack” bundle, which will include a “detailed miniature locker, a football and a replica jersey” for fans.
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The “Homecoming Pack” edition of College Football 25 will cost $149.99 and is available for “die-hard fans,” per the release.
Gameplay notables and a slew of features have also been revealed from EA Sports. College Football 25 is sure to shatter previous records of the title’s various iterations following an 11-year hiatus. EA Sports released a four and a half-minute gameplay montage on its social media channels last month and with that, came several team rankings leaks from “play now” team select screens.
College Football 25 launches nationwide July 19. For those who pre-order the title, EA Sports is giving early access 72 hours early on Playstation 5 and Xbox console users. The first of its kind in next-gen, gamers and media types alike are chomping at the bit to play prior to the start of the 2024 college football season.
247Sports’ Bud Elliott previewed the game last month in Orlando and was able to play several matchups.
“As someone who last played the last iteration and kept playing it for a while, the gameplay is just so much smoother” Elliott told CBS Sports. “It feels like it was gone for about a decade and is now back. Yet it does feel different than how Madden plays. It’s a little bit faster. In the old game, you could wait until the last possible second to pass and the guy would usually get it off. That is noticeably different. They [also] put a ton of time and energy into really trying to make each playbook distinct.
“The No. 1 thing that you get from this is that these guys who make the game, it’s not just another sports game they work on. They’re absolute college football nerds. They geek on every little detail. Like how Tennessee does the checkerboard or how a different team will do the stripes. That level of detail. They have unique sounds for every single team. The mantra they tried to express is that every team is somebody’s favorite team, so we want all the Division I teams that people are playing to be represented and feel special when they’re playing.”
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College Football 25’s release next month overlaps SEC Media Days in Dallas, so a football-rich newscycle can be expected a few weeks before the start of fall camp.