Visual Concepts

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Visual Concepts is a California-based video game developer best known for developing Take-Two Interactive's 2K series of sports games. After the success of the series, they were acquired by Sega and became a wholly owned studio with Sega, usually termed a first-party developer. However, Sega at the time termed non-internal studios that the company either set up or purchased as "1.5 development studios" in order to differentiate them from their own internal studios. In January 2005, Visual Concepts was sold to Take-Two Interactive along with their wholly owned subsidiary Kush Games. With the purchase of Visual Concepts, Take-Two created 2K Games, a new publishing label.[1] Although the company started out developing quirky titles such as Lester the Unlikely, development efforts are now primarily centered on sports titles such as Basketball and Baseball.

Games developed by Visual Concepts[2]

2K/WWE game series

2K/ESPN game series

  • NFL Football
    • NFL 2K (Dreamcast)
    • NFL 2K1 (Dreamcast)
    • NFL 2K2 (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • NFL 2K3 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)
    • ESPN NFL Football (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN NFL 2K5 (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
  • Fantasy Football
  • NBA Basketball
    • NBA 2K (Dreamcast)
    • NBA 2K1 (Dreamcast)
    • NBA 2K2 (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)
    • NBA 2K3 (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN NBA Basketball (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN NBA 2K5 (Xbox, PlayStation 2)
    • NBA 2K6 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360)
    • NBA 2K7 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
    • NBA 2K8 (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
    • NBA 2K9 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PC)
    • NBA 2K10 (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PC, PSP)
    • NBA 2K11 (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PC, PSP)
    • NBA 2K12 (iOS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360)
    • NBA 2K13 (iOS, Android, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSP, Wii, Wii U)
    • NBA 2K14 (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One)
  • College Football
    • NCAA College Football 2K2: Road to the Rose Bowl (Dreamcast)
    • NCAA College Football 2K3 (Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2)
  • College Basketball
    • NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN College Hoops (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • College Hoops 2K6 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360)
    • College Hoops 2K7 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360)
    • College Hoops 2K8 (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
  • MLB Baseball
  • NHL Hockey
    • NHL 2K (Dreamcast)
    • NHL 2K2 (Dreamcast)
    • NHL 2K3 (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN NHL Hockey (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • ESPN NHL 2K5 (PlayStation 2, Xbox)
    • NHL 2K6 (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360)
    • NHL 2K7 (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360)
    • NHL 2K8 (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
    • NHL 2K9 (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii)
    • NHL 2K10 (Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2)
    • NHL 2K11 (Wii)

Other games

Xbox

Dreamcast

  • Floigan Bros.
  • Ooga Booga
  • Sonic Adventure 2
    • Visual Concepts is listed in the credits of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.

PlayStation

  • NBA Fastbreak '98
  • NHL Hockey '97 (published by EA Sports)
  • One
  • Viewpoint

Sega Saturn

  • NBA Action 98 (published by Sega Sports)
  • NHL Hockey 97 (published by EA Sports)

SNES/Genesis/Mega Drive

Game Boy

Apple IIGS

  • Task Force (published by Britannica Software)
  • Gnarly Golf (published by Britannica Software)
  • Great Western Shootout (published by Britannica Software)

References

  1. ↑ Sharma, Dinesh (2005-01-25). "Take-Two takes Sega's sports-game studios". CNET. Retrieved 2011-08-24. 
  2. ↑ Games Developed by Visual Concepts www.ign.com
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