Black College Football Experience (BCFx) is a sports video game centered around the culture of black college football. BCFx was created by Nerjyzed Entertainment, Inc.

Nerjyzed Entertainment

Nerjyzed Entertainment, LLC is a privately held video game and 3D animation development and publishing company founded in 2003, and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nerjyzed is responsible for the development of Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience, the first video game to solely...

, of Baton Rouge, LA. It features Historically Black Colleges & University (HBCU)

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Historically black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community....

 football teams from three HBCU conferences including the SWAC, SIAC, and several schools within the MEAC as well as independent HBCUs. The game features nearly 40 teams, bands, interactive halftime shows, stadiums, play-by-play commentary, and ten Classic games such as the Turkey Day Classic

Turkey Day Classic

The Turkey Day Classic is a college football game, traditionally held annually on Thanksgiving Day. It is played between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University, two historically black colleges and universities. The game is played at the home of Alabama State, in the Cramton Bowl stadium...

, Bayou Classic

Bayou Classic

The State Farm Bayou Classic is the annual college football game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars, first held under that name in 1974 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, although the series itself actually began in 1936...

, Florida Classic

Florida Classic

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Classic is the annual college football game between the Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman University and the Rattlers of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. The series record is FAMU 18, B-CU 10...

, Atlanta Football Classic

Atlanta Football Classic

The Bank of America Atlanta Football Classic is an annual football classic game between two historically black colleges and universities.- History :...

 and the Southern Heritage Classic

Southern Heritage Classic

The Southern Heritage Classic presented by FedEx is the annual college football game between the Tigers of Jackson State University and the Tigers of Tennessee State University.The series record is TnSU 10, JSU 7....

. BCFx was released on Windows-based PC systems

Microsoft Windows

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 in November 2007. An Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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 version titled "The Doug Williams Edition" was released September 29.

BCFx uses the Unreal Engine 3

Unreal Engine

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 game engine

Game engine

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.

Reviews

BCFX reception by critics was mixed, receiving a 3.5 by IGN

IGN

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 and a 5.5 by Official Xbox Magazine

Official Xbox Magazine

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. Negative reviews claimed poor AI

Ai

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and gameplay implementation, while positive critiques noted that the game "looks fairly sharp" visually, and that the developer "built in a pretty entertaining playable halftime show," with a "pretty nifty in-game museum with good info on the schools, their players, and their history."

Teams on BCFX

• Alcorn State University
• Alabama A&M University
• Alabama State University
• Albany State University
• University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff
• Benedict College
• Bowie State University
• Bethune-Cookman University
• Clark Atlanta University
• Elizabeth City State University
• Fayetteville State University
• Florida A&M University
• Fort Valley State University
• Grambling State University
• Hampton University
• Jackson State University
• Johnson C. Smith University
• Kentucky State University
• Lane University
• Livingstone College
• Miles College
• Mississippi Valley State University
• Morehouse College
• North Carolina A&T State University
• Prairie View A&M University
• St. Augustine's University
• St. Paul's University
• Shaw University
• South Carolina State University
• Southern University
• Stillman College
• Tennessee State University
• Texas Southern University
• Tuskegee University
• Virginia State University
• Virginia Union University

External links

• BCFX Official Site