All Pro Football 2K8: Draft your dream team from football’s legendary players–over 240 of them. Choose your arena and pump up the fan base to create stadium energy you can feel. Next Gen Graphics feature thousands of new player animations–games come alive with sweat and steam, rabid fans in the stands and dynamic weather challenges. For All-Pro Football 2K8 on the PlayStation 3, Legends/Abilities List by thatjackassme. Jul 01, 2008 For All-Pro Football 2K8 on the PlayStation 3, Legends/Abilities List by thatjackassme.
Q: If someone could acquire 2Ks football engine and get the gameplay from APF... man. First time I ever played APF 2K8 was today and oh man is it good.
CanuckPlay A: 'I spoke to one of the senior executives at 2k about 4 years ago about licensing their source. It took them 3 weeks just to figure out where it was. It's not something they maintain or even keep track of. Once they did figure out where it was. I was told that they don't license out any of their content to anyone (unless you purchased the whole company).
The tools they used to create the game are obsolete and do not work on new operating systems. The file system they used was proprietary and to generate them you needed to use special plugins - which are no longer supported and the software they plugged into is obsolete. The graphics API used is no longer supported on any platform. It would need to be replaced.
There is nobody left at the studio that understands the game logic. One of the developers that worked on 2k8 is actually dead.
None of the current game engines - unity or unreal - that I would have access too support the animation system that 2k uses. They've built a game engine and animation system designed for sports games. Unreal and Unity have animation engines designed for mobile games and first person shooters.
Could that stuff be updated? Sure, probably, with a lot of work and time. But they don't license out their stuff anyway so it's all moot.'
Do you guys believe TTWO/2K/Visual Concepts would be this careless?
The highlighted guys (some un-highlighted) are the ones who are still at Visual Concepts and worked on NFL 2K, APF 2K8, and now work on NBA 2K Series.
2KFootballNow
The lead AI Engineer is still there.
Shawn Lee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-lee-5242a/
| All-Pro Football 2K8 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Visual Concepts |
| Publisher(s) | 2K Sports |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
All-Pro Football 2K8 is an American football game for seventh generation consoles. All-Pro Football 2K8 is the first football game to be published by 2K Sports since EA Sports purchased exclusive licenses to the intellectual properties of the NFL and NFLPA. John Elway, Barry Sanders, and Jerry Rice appear on the cover.
Overview[edit]
All-Pro Football 2K8 features a fictional league called the 'All-Pro League', or 'APL'. The APL consists of 24 teams that are grouped into six divisions of four teams each. The league runs a sixteen-game schedule and holds a championship game at the end of the playoffs, similar to the NFL.
Since the exclusivity deal the NFL has with EA only covers team licenses, 2K contracted the individual rights to over 240 retired NFL players to appear in the game.[1]
Even though there are no NFL teams in the game, the player can still create teams that resemble their NFL counterparts. A Create-a-Player feature allows the user to add in players that were not included in the roster.
Many of the teams in the game have one or more aspects that are veiled references to other elements of popular culture. While some link to sports teams past and present, others refer to TV, films, cars, comic books, American history and even Native American tradition.
Reception[edit]
| Aggregator | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| PS3 | Xbox 360 | |
| Metacritic | 73/100[13] | 75/100[14] |
| Publication | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| PS3 | Xbox 360 | |
| EGM | 6.67/10[2] | 6.67/10[2] |
| Game Informer | 8/10[3] | 8/10[3] |
| GamePro | N/A | [4] |
| GameSpot | 7.5/10[5] | 7.5/10[5] |
| GameSpy | [6] | [6] |
| GameTrailers | 7.1/10[7] | 7.1/10[7] |
| GameZone | 7.5/10[8] | N/A |
| IGN | 7.6/10[9] | 7.6/10[9] |
| OXM (US) | N/A | 8/10[10] |
| PSM | 8/10[11] | N/A |
| 411Mania | N/A | 8/10[12] |
The Xbox 360 version received 'generally favorable reviews', while the PlayStation 3 version received 'average' reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[13][14] The gameplay of APF2K8 is considered better to the game play of Visual Concepts' previous title, ESPN NFL 2K5. However, All-Pro Football 2K8 received criticism for the lack of a multi-season Franchise Mode, as seen in competing titles such as Madden NFL 08 and NCAA Football 08, given ESPN NFL 2K5 contained a similar Franchise Mode. [15]2K Sports and Visual Concepts chose to omit a franchise mode because since the game revolves around the use of legends from different eras, they felt there would be no rational way for the legends to develop or age.[9]
O. J. Simpson controversy[edit]
In a court ruling, O. J. Simpson was ordered to pay the family of Ronald Goldman any money made for his appearance in the game. Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman in 1995, but was found legally responsible for their deaths by a civil court jury two years later.[16] During pre-production of the game, Simpson was a member of the in-game team called the New Jersey Assassins. Players on the team perform a throat slash as a touchdown celebration, and the animatronic mascot for the Assassins will make a slashing motion. Some pre-release videos showed Simpson performing these moves, implying to some that the designers were intentionally referencing the murders. However, in the retail version of the game, Simpson was moved to the Cyclones.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Ekberg, Brian (June 28, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8 Hands-On'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ abEGM staff (September 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8'. Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 219. Ziff Davis. p. 86.
- ^ abKato, Matthew (August 2007). 'All Pro Football 2K8'. Game Informer. No. 172. GameStop. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^Lunchbox (August 14, 2007). 'Review: All-Pro Football 2K8 (X360)'. GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 19, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ abNavarro, Alex (July 20, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8 Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ abVilloria, Gerald (July 20, 2007). 'GameSpy: All-Pro Football 2K8'. GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ ab'All-Pro Football 2K8 Review'. GameTrailers. Viacom. August 9, 2007. Archived from the original on August 24, 2007. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^Bedigian, Louis (August 20, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8 - PS3 - Review'. GameZone. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ abcGoldstein, Hilary (July 20, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8 Review'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^'All-Pro Football 2K8'. Official Xbox Magazine. Future US. September 2007. p. 81.
- ^'Review: All-Pro Football 2K8'. PSM. Future US. October 2007. p. 80.
- ^Redkey, David (October 2, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8 (X-box 360) [sic] Review'. 411Mania. Archived from the original on November 16, 2007. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ ab'All-Pro Football 2K8 for PlayStation 3 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ^ ab'All-Pro Football 2K8 for Xbox 360 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ^Zuniga, Todd (July 17, 2007). 'All-Pro Football 2K8'. 1UP.com. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^'O. J. Simpson ordered to pay Goldmans over game'. CNET. CBS Interactive. Reuters. September 6, 2007. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
External links[edit]
- All-Pro Football 2K8 at MobyGames