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| NFL STREET |
Developer : EA SportsPublisher : EA BigRelease Date : 01/13/2004 |
A new brand of football meant only for the streets.
Features:
* Gameplay - Hard-hitting 7-on-7 arcade gameplay challenges players to show their skills on both offense and defense. Big jukes with bone-crunching tackles, pitches and a wealth of showboat moves are available.
* Create-a-Team - Create a player and build a team, filling all positions. Choose from hundreds of swappable clothing, accessories, colors and logos.
* Game Play Modes - NFL Challenge: Bulldoze through 31 teams while building the ultimate team with dozens of unlockables. Pick-up Game: You're always the captain and you take turns with your opponent, selecting your team from 40 randomly selected NFL stars.
* BIG-time NFL Personality - More than 300 current NFL stars and legends such as Barry Sanders. Each player model exaggerates the real-life features of their counterparts.
* EA Sports BIG Trick System - Great plays earn Showboat points which will eventually reward gamers with a Gamebreaker. Gamebreakers put a player into "the zone" where they can plow through the opposing team or knock the ball loose on defense.
* Original Interactive Environments - Seven unique fields change will affect your strategy. Play on a beach, in a park, on a corner lot, and more.
* BIG Audio - The game features a licensed soundtrack from top hip-hop and rock artists.
* Multiplayer Competition - Cooperative gameplay or head-to-head action with up to four of your friends.
* Online Play for PlayStation 2 - Rule the streets from coast-to-coast. |
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| When it was announced last year that EA were planning to release a street-style of football game to complement their already popular simulation football title, Madden NFL, eyebrows were raised. A certain scepticism came into the minds of most us who wondered quite what EA would bring to the table, but it didn't take long for us to realise that with the name EA Sports Big comes a track record of solid, fun, feature rich and playable titles and this would likely be no different. The drip feed of information that emerged over the next few months served to increase that expectation and come release time the EA marketing team had done their job once again as those of us who were in two minds about whether this would be 'out kind of game' simply couldn't resist diving into the nearest game store to see if it lived up to expectation. NFL Street... think NBA Street with the same kind of insane moves, extreme energy, GameBreakers ... but without the round ball. Gameplay First up, it should be noted that this is not a simulated version of NFL football. There are no kickers, no special teams and you're starting 7 will play both sides of the ball from start to finish. No substitutions. No replays. No punting. If you don't want your guys to perform over the top moves and don't like the idea of being able to maintain possession despite attempting 6 laterals on the one single play, then... |
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