American football, that is, with all due respect to afficianados of the beautiful sport known as football in every other country.

For quite a while there' s been speculation that 2K Sports would try and work around EA' s exclusive NFL license by signing on retired Hall of Famers, and judging by the name " All-Pro Football 2K8" it seems that they might have done just that. Although without the NFL license it most likely won' t surpass the sales of Madden, it could play a similar role as " Winning Eleven" plays to the officially-licensed FIFA series.

The 2K series of football games had surpassed Madden in quality for a few years and were on the verge of overtaking Madden in sales with the 2K5 iteration aggressively priced at $19.99. Only just now are the Madden games starting to look as nice as the now-three-year old NFL 2K5.