I'm a sports fan but I get that most gamers don't care for the experience that you get from a game like this. That said, I was amazed at how this game is presented and controls. I've played earlier 2K NFL games, as well as entries from the Madden series and the NFL Gameday games. There is good to be found in a lot of those earlier games but football games (read: Madden) have went downhill in the modern era.

ESPN NFL 2K5 was the last "sim" NFL game that doesn't have the word Madden on it and they went out with a bang. As I mentioned before, the game presented an NFL football video game as close to what you would see on ESPN if you were watching the real thing and the ESPN coverage after the fact. I love stats so it was awesome to see how my team and its players had performed after a game as if it was on SportsCenter later that night.

Great memories for a great game that was sold at a budget price(!).