Count me in! Unless I see a Red Robin on the way to the store.

I second (third?) the praise for this game. It does not have a franchise mode, but boy I'm having a lot of fun playing through seasons with new rosters. Every league game I play makes me think about what I might do differently next season....well, if I don't completely turn over my roster, that is.

This game is a heck of a lot of fun, and a real steal at $10. After all, how many other games would leave you shouting: "F*ck you, Otto Graham!!!"

Sweet, I've been waiting for a price drop to pick it up. Thanks for the post.

Okay, so reading through the FAQ on the strategy page Jayhawker linked to, I found the following:

Anyone else catch this, or is it a misreading of what happened? I'd love to see an APF 2k9...in fact, I think they should include coaches with varied playbooks!

i got it at 20 bucks couple weeks ago, i love it. I just wish it had a franchise mode.

My wish list:
* No slashing the framerate in online play

That's it. Call of Duty games play at 60fps online, so does Madden. Figure it out, 2K, and get it right.

I would definitely enjoy the game at 60fps, but this game feels and plays well right now. Any improvements would be icing on the cake, for me.

Playing football games against a live person is one of my favorite pastimes. Back in the day, 3-6 of us would play Madden regularly, winner gets next game. Playing the 2k games with league options is the best way to recreate that same kind of fun we had back then. It's so much better than just random pick-up games. So that is important to me, and much more so than 60fps.

But it sure wouldn't bother me a bit if you get your wish, Legion!

There is definite and obvious framerate slowdown and input lag in online multiplayer. Every game, no matter who you play with. I love the game anyway and enjoyed most of my time online with it, but Legion's right.

If you don't notice it.. that's great for you, but there's a huge difference between singleplayer and multiplayer in this one that wasn't there in NFL2k5. There's absolutely no good reason for it to run the way it does online. There's moments when trying to kickoff or punt in an online game is infuriating because the input is so damned slow.

There are definitely games during which this is an issue, but it very much depends on the opponent for me. Last season I had issues in maybe two games, and I had a bit of difficulty the first game this season. In one case, it was because the other person's connection was horrible (I'm looking squarely at you, Bagga! ).

In the other two cases, the issues were a bit more subtle, but noticeable. The kicking game was definitely affected, and some of the timing on other plays was a bit off, too.

Having said that, this game is still a heck of a lot of fun, online or off!

I'm not big into sports games but I do enjoy one every so often. It sounds like this will be part of everyone's library and $10 is a great price. I'll look for it but I will be away from my 360 for the holidays, so I'll look for you guys again in January.

Man, this is sad. I saw it in the bargain bin for $20 at Best Buy. It was that, Shrek, and some last-gen games. I LOVE 2k Football. The legends thing has turned the game, in some ways, into a pseudo-Maddenesque experience (a few stars blowing away average joes)...the old 2k gameplay is intact, though, and the "superstar" players gameplay is forgiveable since you have some of the greats playing against filler guys.

Awesome game. Awesome gameplay. Sad state of affairs.

Exactly. And it's not the aesthetic part that bothers me so much, it's the input lag that you describe. And like you said, it's something that wasn't there in 2K5 (sure, network lag occurred at times, but not an ever present lag in your input). Anyone that played against me in the 2K5 leagues will tell you how much of my game was dropping into coverage on defense and manually swatting and intercepting passes. 2K8's input online is so poor that it just wasn't possible for me to do the same in this game. And that's a reduction in playability that I wasn't ready to tolerate, especially when the offline game played so perfectly.

I love the 2K games, I'd argue that there's nobody here that played more 2K football than I did prior to 2K8. It's frustrating to not have the kid of precise input that previous 2K football games did. It's not the same online experience. I wouldn't even mind the game being capped at 30fps as long as the input was down-to-the-frame precise like in the offline game.

All of that aside, I still fully endorse 2K8 as an offline game, and $10 is a fantastic steal.