The biggest selling point of any 2K sports franchise over the last several years has been its amazing online leagues and supporting websites. All Pro Football offers the same opportunity to join an actual league with other gamers, while tracking stats and allowing for fully customizable league websites on the 2K Sports site. The game plays just as smooth, and has the same randomly occurring frustrations (cannot connect to host, dropped games), as other 2K Sports titles. Where the online experience for All Pro feels a bit flat is in allowing gamers to bring in their own off-line created teams into the league, meaning every team in the league could literally have exactly the same roster. The odds of it happening are slim, but the chances you will have two or three Joe Montanas (or would that be Montani?) in a league are good.
What should have been a triumphant return for 2K's previously superior football franchise is too often reminiscent of the NES classic Super Tecmo Bowl, and for all the wrong reasons. The novelty of getting to play again with your childhood heroes and players old enough to be mythological legends fails to make up for graphics that would be unacceptable on the original Xbox and a bare-bones set of game modes. Yes, 2K is back in the business of making football games, but business is not so good this time around.
