Interview: RGIII Talks Gaming And Being EA's Cover Athlete For NCAA Football 13

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When it comes to videogames, I don’t play 24/7 but I am a gamer. I like all types of games…sports, adventure games, RPG type games. EA’s got a bunch of those like Mass Effect and Dragon Age and I like them.

It’s just with some of these games parents say that they’re too violent and sometimes games can be violent. But they also can teach kids how to solve problems because you have to go through and live your life through that gaming character. You have to learn how to solve problems within the game. So I think games have merit. I think there is something to them being violent, but if you know the difference between real and fake, you know how to turn it off and turn it on.

Well, all you got to do is go hook up the Sega Genesis or the PlayStation one or the first Xbox, throw in Madden 2000, and then throw in Madden 2012 and you’ll see the difference. The graphics are a lot better. You can even see sweat on the players. The movements are a lot more realistic. I think games have come a really long way and I’m excited to see what the future holds because soon nobody will be holding controllers. We’ll all be playing videogames with 3D images in front of us.

As far as playing, it hits another aspect. It’s an off-the-field success. Being on the cover is huge, not everybody gets that chance and just like Coach Briles told me about the Heisman, there’s only one guy that gets that opportunity. Now, of course there will be two this year because of the way EA’s doing it (with fan voting), but there’s only one guy that gets a chance to be on that cover every year and there’s only one guy that gets a chance to win the Heisman Trophy every year, so I’m blessed to be that one guy.

If it’s Baylor versus Stanford, I’m choosing Baylor all day long.  I’m not much sure how much of a gamer he is, but I’ll tell you what, I’d put up a bunch of points.

Actually I did. Back in Indianapolis I talked to them about it, but hopefully we can just max it out and I can be the only player to ever be maxed out. That’d be awesome, 102 speed. I’m just throwing that out there. No one else can touch that speed, but that’s not up to me thought. I’d love to work with them on it, but I’m just happy to be on the cover of the game.