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2K Sports to resume making football games.

post #1 of 10
1/31/07 at 12:49am
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164995.html

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Now it appears 2K Sports is feeling like it wants to get off the sidelines as well. Today, the publisher announced that Visual Concepts is returning to football with All-Pro Football 2K8. The game is scheduled for release on "next generation video game systems" this summer.

"Football gamers have been awaiting the return of the 2K series," said Visual Concepts president Greg Thomas. "All-Pro Football 2K8 will deliver an authentic next generation gridiron experience and we are happy to give fans another choice in the football category."
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post #2 of 10
1/31/07 at 1:48am
Lookout EA! COMPETITION!!!

Thank Jeebus.
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post #3 of 10
1/31/07 at 2:36am
Too bad it still won't be an NFL game, unless something has changed that I don't know about. Either way I may look into this because I can't stand Madden anymore. They lost me with the passing cone.
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post #4 of 10
1/31/07 at 2:42am
Thank god, I hope if nothing else it's good enough to get EA off their asses and y'know code a Madden game instead of letting it write itself.
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post #5 of 10
1/31/07 at 3:28am
Best news of 2007*. I'll gladly buy this if 2K can deliver a solid Football title.

Fuck EA. I haven't bought Madden ever and thats not changing.

*Outside of HBO acquiring a Song of Ice and Fire
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post #6 of 10
1/31/07 at 4:11am
my feelingsprobably would have been different closer to the shelf life of NFL 2k6 (probably the best pure football sim ever created), but I don't see how a professional football simulator can succeed if it is not using real players.

Now when I say success I mean overall sales. I know a ton of football sim fanatics would pick up the VC title just because they know their pedigree...but thats a small amount of people.

Either way, its good to see VC is taking another stab at things. Their 2k6 engine was very fine tuned and leaps and bounds above madden (even the 08 version)
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post #7 of 10
1/31/07 at 4:58am
Does the NFL own players rights in perpetuity? And, even if they do, has that always been the case? I wouldn't mind seeing an "All-Stars" series from NFL2K in which they feature teams and players from yesteryear.
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post #8 of 10
1/31/07 at 12:14pm
I think it's the teams themselves. For example, you can't do a "classic" game with all of the old Super Bowl teams, but you could do a non-NFL related game with Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, etc. The newest Blitz games do this with Lawrence Taylor and Bill Romanowski. The players aren't owned by EA, just the NFL logos, uniforms, teams, etc.

A company could get around this by making teams like "Plotzburgh Ironmen" or "Texas Outlaws" or "Atlanta Hawks". You know, team names no respecting organization would want to be called. Japanese games do this a lot. There was a great wrestling game called Firepro 6 Man Scramble, and they had virtually every wrestler you could think of, but they were all called different names. You had the option of going through and changing the names after the fact (like NCAA games), so you can set Hulk Hogan's name right instead of leaving him "American Master" or whatever the game called him.
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post #9 of 10
1/31/07 at 1:05pm
It may not still be the case, but the contracts with the NFL and the NFL Players Association used to be distinct, meaning you could have a deal with one and not the other (an example that springs to mind is the old NES Play Action Football, which had real players playing for fake teams).

Does EA have an exclusive deal with both?
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post #10 of 10
1/31/07 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman
I think it's the teams themselves. For example, you can't do a "classic" game with all of the old Super Bowl teams, but you could do a non-NFL related game with Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, etc. The newest Blitz games do this with Lawrence Taylor and Bill Romanowski. The players aren't owned by EA, just the NFL logos, uniforms, teams, etc.
I think that the NFL players union collectively owns the rights to current players.....unless the players somehow extract themselves (I.e., Bond as "white guy no. 77 in the recent MLB game). I doubt that this has always been the case, though. Or, even if it has been, the players' union can't possibly own those rights in perpetuity. I wouldn't mind having a game featuring the best teams of the 60's and 70's.

Actually, I'll come clean. What I really want is for EA to make better football games using the current licenses.
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