All Pro Football 2k9 Views

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Strange as this might sound, EA0’s exclusive license with the NFL might be the best thing to happen to the football genre. It forces competitors to take considerable risks to compete with Madden. If we had the usual NFL 2k8 versus Madden 08 fight this year, sure they would both be considerably better due to direct competition but they wouldnn’t have been forced to think outside the normal process of updating rosters and offering one or two big changes.

I talked about the problems of football games last week so today, Ib’m going to talk about what APF did right and what 2K Sports could do to improve the game.I think 2k8 did a lot right with the engine but that was due to ESPN NFL 2k5 doing a lot of things right for its day. I cans’t emphasize this enough, building a strong game engine will always lead to having a strong game. That ’s certainly the case because the on-field engine only needs slight tweaking and the general yearly improvements.

Finally, and this might be a first in football games, 2k8 could improve the responsiveness of the controls. After extended playtime you could get used to the but they were not as fluid as NFL 2k5.Most of 2k8p′s problems as mentioned surrounded the lack of features. I think only a radical overhaul of 2k8′s feature set is going to make this game feel next gen.

That is the situation we are in now. There is a market for people wanting more than a casual football game.Without question, APF 2k9 needs to be made without trying to please the NFL so they have a chance of getting the use of NFL license. A game that sells poorly but appeases the NFL does not stand a chance of regaining the use of the professional license. The NFL wants exposure for its own product and to do that it needs Maddenp’s iconic stature not All-Pro Footballi’s gameplay.