The game for first time features on-line gaming capability and also adds new teams like Houston Texans and new NFL division alignment.The game also has Create-a-Player option where the players can determine in mini-games their physical conditions for example to be receivers or quarterbacks. Later you can include these players into teams. However there is also availability to trade players instead of train them. Also the game has an option which allows to play from playbook and then practice it. In XBox Windows PS2 PSX GameCube versions the commentary is provided by Al Michaels. The game has rendered graphics with all animation based on it.