Electronic Arts Best-Selling College Football Videogame Franchise
Focuses in on Home Field Advantage and is the First EA SPORTS Title Available
on Xbox Live

The college football season is underway as NCAA® Football 2005 hits store
shelves today, from Electronic Arts. Last year, NCAA Football 2004 sold more
than one million copies and was the second best-selling football game in North
America behind Madden NFL 2004. NCAA Football 2005 marks the first EA SPORTSâ„¢
title on Xbox Liveâ„¢.

For the first time in a football videogame, the game day atmosphere around
the field and in the stadium will affect the players on the field in NCAA Football
2005. Visiting teams will have to fight crowd noise when calling plays while
home teams can play off of the thunderous support from their fans. Featuring
the Top 25 Toughest Places to Play, players can compete in the most elite stadiums
across the country including LSU’s “Death Valley,” “The Swamp”
at Florida, Michigan’s “Big House,” and Nebraska’s “Sea of Red.”

With the new Match-Up Stick, gamers can track the crowd’s impact on each player,
then find and exploit key personnel mismatches. Players can use the Composure
Meter to recognize which players are rattled and to determine the players they
can count on in critical situations. After big plays, players can celebrate
in style with new team-specific fan celebrations like the Gator Chomp and Texas
Hook ‘Em Horns. NCAA Football 2005 also features the deepest Dynasty Modeâ„¢
to date where players can build up their schools, transform young players into
rising stars and monitor program integrity.

Calling the game from the booth for NCAA Football 2005 is the award-winning
broadcast team of Brad Nessler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso.

NCAA Football 2005 features online gameplay(1) on PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment system and Xbox Live. Players will have access to voice communication,
tournaments, ladders and much more. For more information about online (service,
play, capabilities, features) for NCAA Football 2005, go to http://www.ncaafootball05.com.

NCAA Football 2005, developed by EA Tiburon, is rated “E” (Everyone)
by the ESRB and is available on the PlayStation 2 console, the Xbox® video
game system from Microsoft and the Nintendo GameCubeâ„¢.

EA SPORTS is the leading interactive sports software brand in the world. Its
top-selling titles and franchises include Madden NFLâ„¢ Football, FIFA Soccer,
NHL®, NBA LIVE basketball, MVP Baseball™, and NASCAR Thunder™.
The EA SPORTS home page is http://www.easports.com.

About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the
world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982,
EA posted revenues of $2.96 billion for fiscal 2004. The company develops, publishes,
and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal
computers and the Internet. In 2003, EA had 27 titles that sold more than one
million copies. Electronic Arts markets its products under three brand names:
EA SPORTSâ„¢, EA GAMESâ„¢ and EA SPORTS BIGâ„¢. EA’s homepage and
online game site is http://www.ea.com.
More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be
found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
(1) INTERNET CONNECTION required for online play. PlayStation®2 online play
requires Internet Connection, Network Adaptor (for PlayStation 2) and Memory
Card (8MB) (for PlayStation 2) (each sold separately). Not all features available
with all platforms. See http://www.easports.com
or back of product pack for details.

Electronic Arts, EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG, EA GAMES, John Madden Football
and MVP Baseball are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts
Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All names, logos, team icons, and mascots
associated with the NCAA, universities, bowls and conferences are the exclusive
properties of the respective institutions. NCAA is a registered trademark of
National Collegiate Athletic Association. NBA, NFL, NASCAR, NHL, MLB and FIFA
are trademarks of their respective owners. PlayStation is a registered trademark
of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Nintendo GameCube is a trademark of Nintendo.
Microsoft, Xbox and Xbox Live are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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