ESPN NFL Football
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ESPN NFL Football is an American football video game series formerly known as the NFL2K series. The ESPN NFL Football series is developed by Visual Concepts and published by Sega and ESPN.
In 2004, Sega signed a deal with Take 2 Interactive in which Take 2 will distribute and co-publish all titles in Sega's ESPN franchise through Take 2's low-priced unit, Global Star. As a result, ESPN NFL 2K5 was priced at $19.99 (U.S. suggested retail price) the day it shipped versus the usual suggest retail price of most games at $49.99. This earned it a wide audience among more casual football fans.
With the cancellation of the NFL Gameday (developed by 989 Sports) and NFL Fever (by Microsoft) video game lines, ESPN NFL Football's primary competition became Madden NFL (by EA Sports). However, in December 2004, EA signed an exclusive agreement with the NFL, meaning the Madden series would be the only franchise allowed to use NFL team and player names.
History
- NFL2K — Released: September 9, 1999 for Dreamcast
- NFL2K1 — Released: September 7, 2000 for Dreamcast
- NFL2K2 — Released: September 19, 2001 for Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox
- NFL2K3 — Released: August 20, 2002 for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
- ESPN NFL Football — Released: September 2, 2003 PlayStation 2, Xbox.
- The most talked about new feature of this game was the "First Person Football" mode, in which you could see the game from the perspective of a player on the field.
- Due to the acquisition of the ESPN license, the "2K" was removed from the game name for this release. The words "Sega 2K4" were featured on the packaging to inform people that this was the same series as Sega's NFL2K series.
- ESPN NFL 2K5 — Released: July 20, 2004 PlayStation 2, Xbox.
- In this release the "2K" was again added to the gamename. This is the last edition of the ESPN football video game series for the forseeable future. (see above)
Related links
- Official ESPN video game website (http://www.espnvideogames.com)