NFL 2K1 is an American football simulation video game that uses remediation,[2] and was published by Sega and developed by Visual Concepts.

[5] NFL 2K1 received "universal acclaim" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

[c] Rob Smolka of NextGen called it "A great-playing game, both online and offline, and a significant advance over last year's version.

[26][27] The staff wrote that they "argued for more than an hour over whether Square's Chrono Cross or Sega's NFL 2K1 should win the award for Game of the Year.

"[27] Studies have been done on how effective in-game commercialization is in sports games on people, including NFL 2K1.