Historically Black College football video game set for release

Digital entertainment studio Nerjyzed Entertainment will launch their new sports videogame, Black College Football Experience in late November for PC.

"BCF teams have been completely left out of the current crop of football games out there," said Jacqueline Beauchamp, chief executive officer of Nerjyzed Entertainment and alumni of Southern University. " BCF has a very unique atmosphere of college sports which makes for a genuinely fun gaming experience."

What separates BCFx from other football games available will be the fact that the game will be the first sports title to make use of Epic Software's Unreal 3.0 engine that has powered games like Epic's award winning Gears Of War and UbiSoft's Rainbow Six Las Vegas which will mean gorgeous details in the players and environments as well as brutal tackles due to rag doll physics according to Beauchamp.

Also separating BCFx will be the playable half time show that will allow players to play a rhythmic mini-game with gameplay mechanics similar to Harmonix and Redoctane Software's popular Guitar Hero series which seems like a popular concept for freshmen Computer Science major from Baton Rouge Christopher Royel.

" I think the idea is cool, especially a playable halftime show because with other football games, I skip half time," Royel.

According to Beauchamp, the goal is to bring as many players as possible meaning that the game will be a mixture of simulation akin to Electronic Arts Madden Football and arcade style like Midway Software's Blitz series.

When it comes to Historically Black Colleges, Nerjyzed has secured a five-year licensing agreement with three HBCU conferences including the South Western Athletic Conference, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and several schools within the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference.

The development team of BCFx comes from a diverse background of people within the gaming industry and a mixture of different HBCUs whose works include Madden, NCAA March Madness, Elder Scroll 3 Oblivion and more.

Southern University cheerleaders, drum majors, and Dancing Dolls provided motion capture work for animation and various HBCU bands including Southern's Human Jukebox lent live recordings for the game.

Promotion for the game will come through a road tour that will go to many HBCUs where people will have a chance to play BCGx before it's November 23 release.

"We plan on making a huge presence at the Bayou Classic, but we will also be at the Southern Homecoming and we have big plans that include live music and more," said Beauchamp.

The title will be released for PC only due to its larger user base according to Beauchamp though due to the Unreal 3.0 engine, conversion to consoles such as the Playstation 3 and Xbox360 will be possible.

Southern students like Duke Woods, a freshmen psychology major from Baton Rouge seems to be excited with the game.

"I play a game like that because it's good there's finally a HBCU football game that's coming out."