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Ok, I’m Offically Intrigued
By Jason
October 8, 2008 3:53 pm
Whenever I go to Dave and Busters my friends and I have a ritual.
NFL BLITZ ARCADE!
Back when Steve Young and Jerry Rice were on the Niners. Vinny T, Keyshawn and Curtis Martin on the Jets.
And The Giants sucked.
Of course the NFL Blitz franchise we grew up with is dead. However it was resurrected as Blitz: The League. With LT as it’s poster boy Blitz: The League is basically a cross over of old school Blitz and Madden. Instead of focusing on “no rules football” the game is more akin to the now dead ESPN Show “Playmakers.”
The first title was met with mixed reviews, generally it was considered a promising premise but one that just fell short.
Well here we are almost two years later and another Blitz title is on the way. Blitz: The League II comes out Friday October 13th (which almost seems fitting.)
Here’s some interesting features as discussed in the review on WonderWallWeb
When you pull off a good tackle a gruesome x-ray perspective movie will play, showing in detail the part of the body which is breaking, this can be a tendon snapping or popping out of its socket to a bone breaking, the game will go back to real time and have your injured player writhing in agony with the medics around you, here there are two possible mini-games to use depending on the injury, if it is a bone related injury you have the chance to pop it back it, using the LS and RS to link the bones and then push the sticks inwards to put the bone back or the injection mini-game for nerves which is like a game of darts, the closer to the middle the better the recovery. Though the player will be out for a few plays, they will come back with a brief boost.
There are only a few game modes included but each one is very well designed and fun to play. The main story has you playing as “Franchise”, a newcomer to the 3rd Division. Once you have gone through the intro movie you start to choose the style of player, rather cleverly this is selected in a Q&A session with the sports press; your answers determine if you are a quarterback, receiver and what position in defense you will play. The idea of the Story is to impress the scouts and PA’s to get you the big sponsors, cash and girlfriends. To keep the arcade feel of the game you are able to have the computer to do all of your training, however if you want a bit more depth you can choose what training to carry out, what upgrades to select for each player in the likes of clothing, illegal drugs and Body Armour. At certain times of the game you are given a challenge to impress the big-wigs, this could be gaining 200 yards as your main character to performing a specific tackle. Achieve or fail these, the game will always progress as usual but you will earn more abilities and cash.
It’ll be interesting to see what score IGN and other major publications give Blitz: The League II
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