NFL 2K1 is the best Football game out there!The pro and all pro modes are as hard as the real game.The A.I is the best out there.This makes people want to buy a Dreamcast.For PS2,Xbox,&Gamecube onwers should take pride,that Sega is giveing you a chance to play on your systems.With 2K2and 2K3...

I bought this for my son and he has played it for hours, he loves it! The graphics are great and he seems to love the game itself!

This game is simply the best ever. Graphics are good (ok, except for fans and people on the sidelines.) Unlike NBA2K1 or the awful MLB2K1, you have great control over your players both on offense and defense. Gameplay is quick and fun, and the commentating is not annoying at all.

This game is a must have for the DC.

PS. I took the Pats to the Superbowl, which was prophetic.

This is one great game! The graphics are great. The gameplay is fun and the levels are challenging, but not as hard as other reviewers say that they are. Commentating is a little off but other than that there are no major downsides. Great game for all football fans.

This may be the greatest game for Sega Dreamcast with its combination of great graphics and fun gameplay. Sega sports constantly provides excellent games and this is a perfect example of sega and dreamcast's capibilities.

This game has awesome graphics, its almost looks like you are watching a real football game. The commentrary is great. The francise moe makes the game much more enjoyable. The annoying things are that it nerver shows who caught the pass or who scored the touchdown, and you fumble too much. Overall a great game.

Gamers let me tell you. I grew up on fighting games. I dibble and dabble a little in role-playing games as well. But it was NFL2K1 that made me a lover for football games, well THIS PARTICULAR football game. The detail is second to none and the game-play is excellent. I own it and I still play it all the time. It is a must-have for any gamers collection.

This game is better than blitz or any football game u ever played.I bought this game when i just bought my dreamcast.You can trade players to get your ulitmate team.The team are acurrate up to 2000.So the people you just got drafted are not there.Buy this game period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.Don't buy no other

What makes this game so great is not the big things, its the little things. This game is so realistic all the way down to the little things that make the NFL, the NFL. Even the little instances are precise (ex. Ty Law's bump-and-cover is there, Randy Moss's loud-mouth attitude is there, along with Jerome "the Bus" Bettis' smashing runs, and Barry Sander's elusiveness). The playbooks in this game even represent the real team. The Rams' high-powered offense has many passing plays, while the Steelers' play smashmouth and have many running plays. All in all, this game deserves high-billing and is even up there with Madden and Gameday

My boys (8 & 16) already had NBA2K1 and the controls for NFL2K1 are similar so the learning curve was minimal. They were able to start playing straight away. Graphics are good and the sounds (taunts) are entertaining.

The kids like it, so that is the mark of success!

First off before anything, any of those people who gave this game less than 3 stars need to shut up because i bet they never played the game cause they poor. Now on to the review, the game has awsome realistic graphics, the game is smooth, and the runnung game has improved 101%, i get over 6 yards on each carry everytime, i never got less. The game can be easy if you put the level on rookie, but if you put it on all star, your gonna need alot of skills and patience.

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I had been happily playing NFL 2K for two years. I just picked up a cheap copy of NFK 2K1 and have no intention of ever playing NFL 2K again. The running game is vastly improved. Kicking is more difficult (it was too easy before). My one complain thusfar: offense lines seem impenetrable. I guess I'll have to keep playing til I can get some sacks.

ok get this i just played this game today and its additive and really really fun i love it.any one out there that passes this oppurtunity of getting this game im sry cause u are missing out on the best gaming experence of your life!

When dreamcast first came out, one of my friends bought nfl2k, called me, and i was over in 2 minutes. we played this game non-stop for about 3 months so u can assume that my expectations for nfl2k1 were very high. well, i was not let down. without a shadow of a dout this game is one of the greatest games EVER MADE. realistic gameplay, fluid player motions, and visual beatiful graphis make this game good enough to eat.

NFL 2k1---Ever since I bought the Dreamcast in December of 2000, I have been unable to put this game down. I have literally tried to restrain myself by trying to hide the game and forget about it, but the re-play value of NFL 2k1 is just too damn good. I spend most of my hours in the super-cool franchise mode, where I have a fantasy draft of all the NFL players currently playing (which [makes me mad], because I can never get Jevon Kearse and Peyton Manning on the same team), and try to assmeble the best team in the NFL and take it to the Superbowl year after year, season after season. But the biggest attraction is the college draft at the end of each season...make or break your team by taking risks on lowly rookies...it doesnt get any better than that.

The play is awesome, moves are super-realistic and the running game is vastly improved from the late NFL 2k. There are three levels of difficulty in NFL 2k1- rookie, pro, and all-pro. There is a big gap in the Al-toughness from pro to all-pro, which makes the game exciting and intense. I jump out of my seat everytime I win a game in double-overtime with a 50+ yard field goal, just as if it were a real game!

There are many cool features, like on-line play and create-a-player/team, and the crowd (I love it when they chant FREAK! FREAK! FREAK! every time Jevon Kearse sacks a QB twice in a row...). Basically, I love football, and when it's the off-season, and baseball is just too damn boring, pick up NFL 2k1 and the time will fly by. I guarantee that NFL 2k1 will change anybody's mind about the way sports games are played, and if you don't have a Dreamcast, better get one before they're gone for good, and get this game right away!!

Oh yeah, and you KNOW I will be there when NFL2k2 comes out...

With the start of the 2002 NFL season, what could be better than to revisit a classic grid iron game like NFL 2K1? With the upcoming anticipation of NFL 2K2 just around the corner, NFL 2K1 has dropped in price to the sweet $20 mark and I recommend that anyone who does not have the coin to get 2K2, pick up 2K1. It is true that on rookie level most players will begin to dominate rather quickly. I still like to put the game on 15 minute quarters and just pound away on the CPU to let out some frustration. The pro level will challenge those used to rookie as it will force you to think your plays out and react to different offensive schemes the CPU will throw at you. I constantly have read people saying that their receivers are dropping passes too much on pro level. Well, you have to let them run their routes fully before you throw. If you just drop back three yards and hurl the ball, yes, you'll get picked 9 out of 10 times. You have to think and be cautious. Mix up the plays. Also keep track of your players health. If you have Tim Brown on 45% strength, chances are he won't catch a pass. That's the beauty of this game, you have to manage on all fronts. Another way to insure a better passing game is to figure out the "money plays" for your team. Every team has "money plays" (to rip off Madden) that will usually about 95% of the time gaurantee ball movement. I play with the Raiders exclusively and I have discovered about seven of these type of plays. Be patient with your team, you'll discover them.
Defense is where things can get sketchy. On rookie, you can use a basic 4-3 blitz and nail the QB about 70% of the time, or at least disrupt the pass play. On pro, if you blitz too much, you'll get burned. On the harder settings, if you keep using the same defensive strategy, the CPU will figure you out and punish you accordingly. I personally use a mix of 3-4 packages and nickel and have found that usually can keep things from getting out of hand. I also have used the 4-3 cover man to man as well for teams that are pass heavy like the Colts.
Penalties are where I have the biggest problem. In one game alone against Denver, Bill Romanowski was all over James Jett for two plays in a row and no flags were thrown. So, on defense, I decided to get a little more physical and was flagged for pass interference on the first play. Now that is bad balance. I have found myself tweaking the penalties more often to allow for more freedom to hit receivers. Of course I get my fair share of pops from the CPU doing this, but I like the rougher play with the penalties mellowed out.
The CPU tends to "cheat" from time to time. If the game starts to get out of hand in your favor, the CPU team will suddenly become supermen and complete every pass and run for 20 yards every play. Is this NFL 2K1 or NFL Blitz? Sometimes I can't tell the difference. At least it keeps things interesting.
Bottom line is this, if you are looking for a good inexpensive football game to tide you over until the new release, then this is it. For 20 bones, you can't do much better.

NFL 2K1 is hands down the best football game avaible. It's amazing graphics will leave you breathless. The player motions are fantastic. It's unreal how players break tackles, spin, jump, and hurdle. Plus, the game is so sophisticated it includes directional tackling, meaning that, for example, if you are going at full speed down the sideling, and a player tries to cut you off from the side, your momentum will allow you to break his tackle. NFL 2K1 doesn't just have excellent graphics, and realistic gameplay, but is also has a wealth of options that will keep you occupied until the next version is released. There is a season mode, playoff mode, franchise mode, single player, multiplayer, fantastic online play, and my personal favorite, a fantasy season which allows to draft your own dream team. All these factors add up to a great game, but visual concepts didn't stop there. The little extras like motion replay, excellent commentary, sideling reports, injury reports, and periodic updates on other scores help make this game very lifelike, and hands down the best football game on the planet. A must buy for any gamer!

Sega & Visual Concepts have a masterpiece on their hands. After playing NFL 2K1 practically non-stop, I'm into my fifth season, this game continues to surprise and entertain. I cannot say enough about the depth they managed to cram into this game, which manages to excel in many areas.

1. With more than 2000 motion captured movements, the players come alive on your tv. And unlike Madden 2001, 2K1 players seem to mimick true physics and human motion in how they interact with one another. Players aren't always tackled by the first defender they encounter. They might plow a defender over if one is larger or is at full speed. Or a player might stumble into the endzone after overcoming a shoe string tackle.

2. The playbook accurately reflects the actual plays ran by each team. And there are more plays to choose from than Madden 2001. Don't like a play, create your own with the play editor.

3. The dialogue between the two commentators is very colorful and accurately reflects the situations and play on the field. A lot of attention was put into this detail and it shows. The commentary on Madden was pathetic and got old fast. I wanted to shut Maddens mouth off.

4. Long term playability. NFL 2K1 is so close to the real thing, you won't get tired of playing it. The A.I. adapts to your play as a game progresses and never ceases to challenge you. And there are other variables such as; open receivers that drop balls, over thrown passes, players that break tackles, players that talk smack, etc...

I could keep going on about the features of this game, but you get the point. The only drawback to this game is that the graphics aren't quite as sharp as those on EAs Madden. But the play of Madden is too canned and the A.I. lacks. Even my nephew, who owns Madden on a PS2, prefers the play of NFL 2K1. He's very excited that NFL 2K2 will soon be offered on the PS2.

"If it's in the game,...than 2K1 has captured it".

This game is awesome. The graphis are unbelevable and the commentray is very good. ZThis game also has franshice mode which is always good. Its a little hard to understand but it's still fun. I bought htis game rigt when it came out and i still play it. I can't wait for 2k2. This is by far the best football game ever. This is a must for Football fans!!

In a few words, this game is nothing short of remarkable. The realism in this game is over the top, and the graphics are tremendously well done.

NFL2K1 is effective at creating a realistic passing game system, and surprisingly, creates a highly realistic running game; something that hardly any football games can seem to do. The A.I. in this game is also realistic. Usually in other football games the computer is just "pass happy," and throws a hell of a lot more times than it runs. Not in 2K1, however. The computer plays SMART, and has just about an equal balance of pass to run. So far, the only thing that I can complain about about is with the computer's ability to make field goals. To put it nicely, the computer simply sucks at kicking field goals. Other than that, nothing brings down 2K1.

Overall, NFL2K1 is a must have for all true NFL football fans!

This is definetly the best football game I have ever played. I think anyone who likes football games will love this one. The graphics are amazing it's like your watching a game on t.v. I can't wait to see the improvements in nfl 2k2. The playability is very good. The only little flaw is that the game is a little too easy on the easy level but to hard on the next level up. A great plus is the replays. Another good part of this game is that you can create your own player. I suggest you should buy this game it is definetly worth the ptrice.

THIS IS A GREAT GAME--BUT ITS ALMOST TIME FOR NFL2K2 RELEASE SO YOU KNOW BY NOW HOW THIS GAME RATES-----I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BETTER VIEW OF THE AUDIBLES--WHAT I MEAN IS WITH MADDEN YOU ARE ABLE TO SEE THE DIRECTIONS AND ROUTES OF THE PLAYERS BEFORE YOU CHOSE THE AUDIBLE WITH NFL2K1 YOU HAVE TO MEMORIZE THE DESIGNED ROUTES.

This is the best sports video game that i have bought and it shows. The online play is the best hardly any lag at all(unless you have a bad connection rate or your opponent does) and it's also fun playing on line. Look at it this way, Your at home playing it by yourself and kicking the computers a** and you think i'm the best player in the world, then you go on the internet and you get your a** kicked. Now you can play differant people and get better and better because you can only get so much better playing against the computer.

The create a team and player is a whole lot better from last years it's easier. And create a play is one of the best parts of the game. You think up a awesome play in your head that could be a touchdown play but other games won't allow you do put that play to use. But now you can create that play in the game. This game has everything a football game has needed and i can't wait for the NFL2K2 on PS2.(If you didn't know Sega has dropped the Dreamcast and is became a developer for all the systems now.)

I'm not a huge football fan. And I rarely buy sport games, but everything I heard about this game made me buy it and I wasn't disappointed in the least.

I played every facet of this game with a great deal of enjoyment. They just did everything right this time. It looks great, sounds perfect, plays just as it should, and just makes you want to play "one more game" before shutting it off.

Obviously Madden on the PS2 looks slightly better, but the two games are very different. I just don't get into Madden as much as I do NFL2K1. What really kills me about Madden is the incessant gibberish coming from their play-by-play announcing. I'll gladly take a bunch of nobodys that know how to make it seem real rather than the "name brands" they got for Madden who are just reading a handful of lines that get fired out almost randomly.

I played a full season of NFL2K1 and it felt great. A must by for anyone that enjoys football in even the smallest amount.

I have been playing electronic football games since the days of those handhelds with the three rows of dashes to represent the players and the ball. I am not much interested in other electronic sports offerings, but electronic football I love. This is the best one I have ever played, hands down.

The graphics are suberb, online play against real people is a marvelous feature, one-on-one play with an opponent right in your own living room is seamless, and the challenge level is almost perfect.

When I say the game is challenging, I mean it. This game is hard! By the time I'd finished one season on Rookie level, I won the Super Bowl in a 42-0 blowout. Too easy, by far, but useful for learning the controls. I quickly left it behind and moved on to Pro level. This was pretty hard for a while, but after a couple of seasons, it also got to be too easy and I moved up to All-Pro level. Several seasons later, I usually win, but I am still having to play my best to do so. Sometimes I swear the computer is cheating, but, on the whole, I'd rather it remained difficult than have it get too easy and become boring. And difficult it is. Very much so.

The Franchise mode is also exceptional. I have rarely found myself drawn into such features before, but this game's franchise mode has me hooked. I'm just getting into my 2005 season and have spent countless hours tweaking my roster, juggling my needs so that I can strengthen a weak spot without creating another. Every draft season I have to carefully plan to fill in the gaps from retirements and to pick up the slack for aging players. During the course of a season, I have to trade and adjust. Fascinating stuff and it keeps on keeping me interested, long after most games would have started to bore me.

So, having said all those wonderful things, why only four stars? Because the game has some flaws that could have easily been prevented. Some are merely annoying, like the tendency for the announcers to keep mentioning it every change of possession when a player gets hurt on a possession changing play (even half a game after he's back in the game). Others amount to majour causes of stress and broken controllers, most especially the random way that your players will stop dead in their tracks when you take control of them, instead of continuing to do what they should be doing (if the game always did this, you could adapt to it, but it only does it sometimes, and it almost always results in a big play for your opponent). Very frustrating.

Another shortcoming is in the record-keeping area. Two actually. First, the game is sporadic about actually recording new records. Usually it's fine but sometimes it just seems to forget (I am still upset that my conference championship-winning 60 yard field goal is not listed in the Longest Field Goal record book). Second, there are only ten or so records kept and those only by name and the raw number of the record. Competition with my friends who play on my system for new records is a lot of the fun - and a wide variety of records the player can break, and information as to what player/team and at what skill level applied when they were set - have been standard features of competing products (i.e., Madden) for years, yet Sega dropped the ball (as it were).

The commentary, however, is a vast improvement over the competition. Sure, I've heard most of their pithy little sayings dozens of times, but every now and then I still hear a new one. And even the most frequently repeated ones usually have that "real-time feel" since they often menrtion the player by name and the actual circumstances on the field where appropriate. Sega's made the most of the Dreamcast's processing power here and produced a definite improvement over, say, Madden's irritatingly canned comments.

So, all in all, a great game, but one that could have benefited by a few more weeks of playtesting and debugging. Despite its flaws, I still play at least one game almost every day b/c I genuinely love this game. If you like electronic football, you owe it to yourself to give this game a try.

Some of the things in Nfl 2k are better than Nfl 2k1. The graphics are great in this game, and the field looks more realistic. The commentary was great in Nfl 2k, but in this it is game, it is not as good. I was not very impressed by the game's plays. In Nfl 2k, the plays were at least plays that I've heard of. In this game, I never heard of most the plays. Not only that, they got rid of some of my favorite plays, such as Reverse, and The Bomb(which were in Nfl 2k.) I found myself picking plays because they had cool names.

Overall, this was a good game, I just liked Nfl 2k a little bit better.

Nfl 2K1 for DC is one of the best sports games I've ever played for any console. The graphics rock, there's tons of players and plays to choose from, and you can even custumize your own players, teams, and plays! I haven't played it online, but I've heared it's awsome. This is a must-have for all NFL fans who own a DC, but don't expect to master the game on pro or all-pro mode, because while I've shut out the computer 89-0 on rookie, I can't score a single touchdown on the harder settings!

This is the best football game out today it does have some flaws to it the running game is to easy when you run to the outside the passing game is to hard you reciever drops the ball when he goes on vertical routes the quarterback is really hard to sack he gets rid of the ball before you can hit him and the ball goes straight up in the air the defense is hard to play the browns with score like 30 points on the ravens defense it does have great graphics and the game play is cool it needs to get more stats in it in franchise mode and it would be pretty cool if it could get some records from the nfl on it like madden hopefully one day there will be a prefect football game but intill than this one is it

what can i say about this game that hasn't already been said by thousands of NFL2K1 fans? this game is excellent.... i'll admit when i first got it, i went through some growing pains...dropped balls...no running attack...impossible to defend. but, once i took my time, i realized, you gotta treat this game like a "real" game. you gotta wait till your receiver hits his route...you gotta follow your blocker when runnin up the gut...you gotta time your defensive back when jumpin for a pass...you gotta rush and tackle at the right time. i'm tellin you, this game is fa real. the atmosphere during game time is amazing...the sound affects are excellent...and the gameplay is terrific. one of the best parts of the game is the franchise mode. you can select to have a fantasy draft, and any players that you have created are in the draft! it is the highlight of the game.... i haven't talked about the online segment yet either...un-freakin-real. the intesity is great...plyin' some cat from toledo while you're in your house in washington dc. what? awesome! trust me, if you don't have this game, you're missin out on one of the most innovative and phenominal games ever to hit the market... you get it all....great gameplay....stats...create a player...create a play...create a team...online tournaments!!! i'm afraid to ask how incredible NFL2K2 is gonna be!!!

When i first started to play this game on rookie i thought it was the best, untill i tried playing it on pro. Try passing the ball to Randie Moss in rookie and then to him on pro. He never makes a catch in pro but makes every catch in rookie. In pro the computer ALLWAYS seems to be at the perfect spot to make an interception. Try watching the replay, most of the times the defenders do not touch the ball but they myteriously block the pass. When you pass the ball there are like three defenders on you as soon as you pass the ball. If you do get a reciever open he drops it. The computer completes 99.999% of its plays on pro. This game has wonderfull graphics and is very realistic. I think if they are going to make pro that hard do not make rookie so easy or vice versa. If you cant make any plays in pro try catching the ball yourself. I love this game but i cant seem to move on from rookie. I beat the computer 124-0 and still cant beat the computer in pro.

When I first played this NFL2K1 I had to figure it out but know im on pro level and thats after two weeks of owning it. I think i'll be on all pro level in about three to four weeks. You have to try franchise mode its the best you can trade, draft players, and be the over all GM. I started a franchise mode and I got a team that is unstopable. On offense I got Randy Moss, Wanye Chertbet, Barry Sanders, Rich Gannon. On defense I have so many good players I can't name them all. Overall NFL2K1 is a must have for your Dreamcast!!!

This game is alot better then NFL2k, alot of the glitches have been fixed and the graphics are even better. The Franchise mode is the greatest thing on the game, being able to manage and trade players is great, if u have the right players you could practically assemble a dream team. All in all this game really saved dreamcast because in my opinon all of Dreamcast's games that aren't sports titles are pretty weak. If you like football games this is a definte. I also recomend NBA 2k1 if you are a basketball fan (how could u not be?).

The on-line game is simply phenomenal. It is truly addictive, and super-fun to play, unlike ANY other games out there. This is my second review write-up so I won't get into details about the the game. I am writing again 2 months after I bought this game, admitting to you all that I am truly addicted to playing this game on-line. Ever since I joined DRICAS, ..., I've been staying up late at night, finding other DRICAS players to for a fight to move up the ladder rankings. While I am not playing on-line, I am looking for tips and effective offensive and defensive plays to help me improve the game. In a word, this game has taken over my life. I wonder when I will ever get tired of this game. How good this game is, come to think of it, is pretty scary.

nfl 2k1 is so much better than madden for ps2 maddens graphics are slow and drawn out while nfl 2k1 has lightning speed graphics bottom line here is if you wanna have hours of fun gtet nfl 2k1 if you want something to throw on your garbage heep get madden thanks for reading goodbye for now