EA only company to use NFL name?

[PennyManDeux]

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/573/573241p1.html I think this was news on the front page at one time, but EA and the NFL have a contract for 5 years, EA is the only company to have games with official NFL teams and player. That's BS if you ask me.

[J2T]

Well, they were scared of the success that ESPN NFL2K5 had..which was a far better and cheaper game than Madden was.

[Kurtis]

Well that's how business is. If you can do something exclusively sometimes you have to in order to get an edge over the competition. I don't play sports games anyhow, so it doesn't affect me.

My feeling was always that every football game is the same crap, with slightly upgraded graphics.

[MaNiAk21]

Yes, that's really lame, although I knew about this before.. and I don't play sports games generally, it's still quite a heavy blow. Competition brings out the best in games, and ESPN had it right selling it for cheaper.. they SHOULDN'T be $50 for a basic upgrade of characters/stats/number after Madden. It's just stupid and non-sensical, but people are now going to be forced into it (if they want to be like that anyways...)

Also, I don't particularly like IGN. GameSpot's my all-around-gaming site of choice.

[Thaw_Out]

Some sport games are fun, such as FIFO (I think that was the name).

[Kurtis]

if it is soccer, it is probably FIFA :-P

[Thaw_Out]

Well I was close :-)

I knew it was spelled something like what I said. Anyways, yeah it is soccer game, and I played it at a friends dorm room.