NFL Street 2

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Create your player, master new skills, and hit the streets
• Ten new fields and two bonus environments
• Take on 4 new game modes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006I5FKQ
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,420 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: GameCube

Game Informer Review

This series' mixture of showboating flash and primetime play is an intoxicating combo that hides its simple premise as a pick-up-and play, multiplayer-on-the-couch game. This brand of football was defined in the original NFL Street perhaps a little too well. I say that because it's sequel time and all NFL Street 2 can come up with on the field is one new move.

The game has expanded in other ways, but this was mainly to diversify and get away from the grinding, boring structure of the first title. You can play through challenges with your created team (NFL Challenge), take your favorite team against all the other NFL franchises (NFL Gauntlet), or cruise the city picking up players and playing Street Event minigames (Own the City mode). When you step back and think about it, NFL Street 2 has diversified to essentially offer three different ways to play the game. I'm torn as to which way I like to play best, and it's almost a shame there isn't one ultimate way to experience the entire title. For instance, I like the feeling of building up the skills of each team member in NFL Challenge, but this is absent in Own the City. For its part, however, this mode changes things up with Street Event minigames – some of which are better than others (all are online, however).

Despite the myriad ways to experience the game, at its heart, this sequel is virtually unchanged in the gameplay department. I loved the wall jump, which works really well as an evasive manuever, but the GameBreaker 2 (see below) is a big, fat egg. Apart from the lack of additions, there are problems that aren't cleaned up as well. Players' response to your commands can be sluggish, there are no hot routes, and defenses lack any kind of ball swat move. I also don't like how the impact gear isn't prevalent.

This series is one that posits itself as of the pick-up-and-play variety, which is certainly true. But that doesn't leave it long enough legs to help it run away from the moniker of "mediocre."

Concept:
You'll love the wall moves, but the majority of the changes this year are structural

Graphics:
I was surprised that there didn't seem to be a lot of new tackle animations

Sound:
Contains the usual host of EA Trax tunes, including a clutch of exclusive songs

Playability:
Players' response to your controller inputs is a tad slow, but signature moves are easier to pull off

Entertainment:
More fun than the first, but not by much. This is the game last years' should have been

Replay:
Moderately High

Rated: 7.5 out of 10
Editor: Matthew Kato
Issue: February 2005

2nd Opinion:
Ryan Leaf comes to mind when I think of the new GameBreaker 2. All this hype and excitement, and they turn out to be the most disappointing aspect of the game. It's a major buzz kill that the computer controls these maneuvers for you. I want to play the game, not watch it from the sidelines! And why does this game make Xzibit look like the greatest talent in football? What's next? Ray Charles in NFL Street 3? On a positive note, the new wall moves are implemented nicely and really open up the running game. Own the City mode also offers up a nice variety of challenges and unlockables. At its core, this is still a hard-hitting game, but the majority of new content just doesn't sit well.

Rated: 7.5 out of 10
Editor: Andrew Reiner


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Product Description

Defy gravity and stretch your game to the skies with NFL Street 2. Receivers can now run off the walls, change passing lanes by running your QB up a building, and take advantage of eye-popping wall jukes and all-new hurdles. You better hold on to the ball because defenders fly across the field in ways never before seen in a football game. Players now descend on Bay City, an all-new persistent world to build their teams, their reps, and their battle plans one field at a time. Once you own the walls, you will own the city. Join pick-up games around the city and establish your reputation by recruiting talent from the neighborhoods you conquer as you begin your journey to become football's biggest street legend. The time to own the streets is now.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game! but Xzibit cusses in his songs and so do other songs in this game., February 2, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NFL Street 2 (Video Game)

This game is the best game I have ever played! buy this game if you like to be low on rules and hard on hits. If you like style
buy this game. If you don't like games with these qualites buy Madden NFL 06. Here are some new features.
new features
own the city mode is so cool!
new street events!
you can bounce off walls and pass or juke!
Bad features
turbo runs out after player gets tired



in all this game is really good!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best sports games ever!!!, March 30, 2005

By 

G. Richa "lordofthekindred" (Panama, Rep. of Panama) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NFL Street 2 (Video Game)

Let me begin by saying that I'm not a big fan of sport video games, but this whole Street sport series is awesome. I haven't been able to put this game down since I started playing with it. The player development is very good, and the game becomes very challenging after a while. I have but one complaint: The fact that the player cannot review the stats for incomming players to the team until after you've chosen to add a the player to the team, and when you chose, you can't go back on your decision. Other than that, this games ROCKS!!!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Kids or Not?, November 9, 2005

By 

Aaron L. Shaw "Casual Reviewer" (Provo, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NFL Street 2 (Video Game)

NFL blitz is alive and well on the PSP. Only this time it is called NFL Street 2, and it is a little fancier. First the ugly: this game takes 15 hours to load each game. Not really, but that is what it feels like when you just want to play a quick game. The other ugly thing is that it seems a bit difficult to remember what all of the buttons do. So, though it is fun to do a crazy pitch to the running back or a behind the back throw to a receiver 50 yards away, you can never remember that you now have to control the running back or the receiver with a whole new set of controls. This is seen as a positive thing by many that believe the more complex the game, the more shelf life it will have in a collection. Now, the ugly said, this game is fun enough to last forever in your game collection. Does football ever get old? Then a game that is football on steroids done pretty darn well should not either. Finally, the mini-games are worth mentioning with games of smear the queer and 500 that are just loads of fun. There are a couple of others, but the two mentioned are the only games worth much.

Bottom Line: Is it fun? Get this fun football game. Will I keep it? yep. Is it for kids? Too many buttons.

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