ESPN Opens Online Leagues

Expanding the array of options available for armchair quarterbacks online, ESPN Videogames today launched its Online Leagues service for ESPN NFL Football, as well as its other upcoming ESPN sports games upon PS2. With the Online Leagues features, players can obtain together with their friends and simulate realistic league play, with a filled schedule, stat-tracking, game recaps, and more.

Online Leagues, available at ESPNVideogames.com beneath the "PS2 Online Gaming" section, support up to 32 players using the teams of their choice. After creating a league with a simple point and click interface, you can invite participants, locate up a schedule, arrange matchups, and customize the league directions -- difficulty level, length of quarters, and in the way that forth.

After each league game, ESPN's database records all the player statistics generated by the agency of both teams, and outputs a realistic game recap to the league page. You can check on the outside a brief AP-style summary of the game or a clean play-by-play report, as well as post-game commentary from players if they select to enter it. The league also has a similar freshs section, with stories on management transactions and significant player achievements.

To hold fast players in touch, the League a whole incorporates an instant messaging service. The IM a whole and accompanying message boards permit players meet each other to form leagues or detain in contact about the goings-on in their be in possession of league.

ESPN Videogames Online Leagues bear the only-somewhat-biased DaveZdyrko.com seal of approval, and are commended to community-minded football fans everywhere.

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