NCAA Football 09
49 Achievements
1,000
15-20h
Xbox 360
Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback
Win a Play Now or Dynasty Mode game when down by 14 to start the 4th qtr. (Min Difficulty: Varsity)
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How to unlock the Pontiac G8 4th Quarter Comeback achievement in NCAA Football 09 - Definitive Guide
Start a Play Now game, with you as UGA/Ohio State vs. Idaho/Army. Set diff. to Varsity and quarter length to 2 minutes (3 if you're not that good). Go ahead and set your user AI sliders all the way up on everything, but don't touch the cpu's.
When playing the game, go into FG block when your opponent is on offense to allow them to pass for an easy TD. When you get the ball, just punt it back immediately and repeat the above step. When losing 14-0, turn off the play clock when you have the ball and call a run play so you can hold the clock for the remaining minutes.
In the third quarter, go ahead and turn off all penalties and edit the cpu's AI sliders to nil. Call a run play and dive around the 2 yard line or so (DON'T go out of bounds), making the clock run until the fourth quarter and putting you in good field position. Fourth quarter, score a TD immediately and go for 2. When the cpu gets the ball back, put a player in the backfield to sack the qb immediately (hence no penalties), then just call a timeout. Burn all your timeouts with this method and again put a person in the backfield to sack the punter (UNLESS they're in the endzone, which in that case just field the punt). Play D to win the remainder of the game against the crappy cpu.
When playing the game, go into FG block when your opponent is on offense to allow them to pass for an easy TD. When you get the ball, just punt it back immediately and repeat the above step. When losing 14-0, turn off the play clock when you have the ball and call a run play so you can hold the clock for the remaining minutes.
In the third quarter, go ahead and turn off all penalties and edit the cpu's AI sliders to nil. Call a run play and dive around the 2 yard line or so (DON'T go out of bounds), making the clock run until the fourth quarter and putting you in good field position. Fourth quarter, score a TD immediately and go for 2. When the cpu gets the ball back, put a player in the backfield to sack the qb immediately (hence no penalties), then just call a timeout. Burn all your timeouts with this method and again put a person in the backfield to sack the punter (UNLESS they're in the endzone, which in that case just field the punt). Play D to win the remainder of the game against the crappy cpu.
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Awsome solution and its a quick way to do it. Thanks for the help with this one. :)
By xXxN1GHTFALLxXx on 13 Sep 2010 21:06
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By Zacry072 on 13 Sep 2010 21:30
Get two controllers and set the quarters to one minute. Use the second controller and use Hail Mary while your team uses Field Goal Block. Get the extra point as the second controller. Once it's your turn, punt it back immediately to the other team. Repeat.
It should now be 14-0 into the second. Turn off the play clock and take knees and wait. Get into good position to score at the start of the fourth quarter.
Score, punt, and do the same Hail Mary/Field Goal Block trick from earlier, but reversed. Tie it and then take the lead.
Time should be no problem here, but if something goes wrong, yes you can still get this if you happen to go into overtime.
Note: You can also get either the Ice the Kicker achievement or the Ice in Veins achievement. Just call timeout as the other controller while you kick a close field goal, or wait until 1 second to throw the ball into the endzone.
Just remember to use Hail Mary/Field Goal block for all plays.
Very easy achievement with two controllers!
It should now be 14-0 into the second. Turn off the play clock and take knees and wait. Get into good position to score at the start of the fourth quarter.
Score, punt, and do the same Hail Mary/Field Goal Block trick from earlier, but reversed. Tie it and then take the lead.
Time should be no problem here, but if something goes wrong, yes you can still get this if you happen to go into overtime.
Note: You can also get either the Ice the Kicker achievement or the Ice in Veins achievement. Just call timeout as the other controller while you kick a close field goal, or wait until 1 second to throw the ball into the endzone.
Just remember to use Hail Mary/Field Goal block for all plays.
Very easy achievement with two controllers!
Set Quarter Length to 2 minutes, Difficulty must be set to Varsity to get the achievement, if the difficulty is not set to Varsity the achievement will not unlock. Then just select Field Goal Block until they are up by at least 14. If you select Field Goal Block, more than 90% of the they will audible to a throwing play, but sometimes the stupid AI still wants to run the ball. Now once you are down by 14, just run down clock, waste time, then once the 4th Quarter starts, just start scoring and scoring until you take the lead, then again just run down the clock and waste time.