2k football is coming back!!
December 9th, 2006by Ryknow
When NFL 2k5 was release for a EA maddening price of $19.99, football fans rejoiced. A GREAT pigskin game at a GREAT price. The enjoyment did not last long as about 2/3 of the way into the season EA and the NFL announce that they had secured a deal to give exclusive NFL players and stadium rights to EA for the Madden series. Football fans cried foul and hearts broke. Luckily we wont have to wait much longer for our beloved series to come back and send EA scrambling for cover.
Details after the break.
Taken directly from the IGN article:
December 8, 2006 - December 14, 2004. If you’re a sports gamer, that’s the day the music died. It’s the day the NFL and EA announced plans for an exclusive licensing agreement that would change everything you thought you knew about the videogame industry.
It wasn’t about playing games anymore. Button mashing was big business, and with big business, that meant the rules (and the game) were about to change.
Without fear of competition, EA Sports could coast into next gen and still be top dog despite Madden’s lack of current-gen features (Owner mode, fantasy draft), not to mention the perplexity that finds us two games deep in the 360 cycle, and Madden’s still only running at 30 frames-per-second.
Anyone think Madden 07 would’ve excluded Owner mode if NFL 2K7 was on the shelf?
Anyone think EA Sports would’ve held onto gang tackling as an exclusive feature for the PS3 if gang tackling was already a feature on 2K’s 360 football game?
If you answered yes to either question, you’re new nickname is Matt Millen and your comprehension of competition is about as deep as Millen’s comprehension of the NFL draft.
What I’m here to tell you (actually I broke the 2K Legends story back in 2005, but I’ll tell you again) is that this year is going to be different.
Competition is coming back in 2007, and that means two things.
2K fans need to brush up on historical players (how can you play a game with legends if you can’t tell Steve Young from Steve Bono?). And EA Sports is going to come out blazing with new features in Madden to try and hold off the throwback phenomenon Visual Concepts will finally announce sometime after the new year.
Yeah!!! Endlich wieder Konkurrenz für EA, d.h. endlich mal ein gutes Football Spiel für 360!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
