Blitz: The League (PlayStation 2)

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Description

Blitz: The League is the first football game with no NFL license in many years - because EA signed an exclusive deal with the NFL, Midway developed one without the license. The game has 17 fantasy teams all with their own look and feel - from personalities to logos.

The game differentiates itself further from official games by giving the players an off-field presence, often involving sex, performance-enhancing drugs and violence. The game has input from the writer for Playmakers, the football-based soap opera the NFL forced ESPN to cancel.

Blitz: The League has 8-man teams, and makes spectacular action-packed moves easier than in real life. Impressive moves boost your Clash meter, which allows you to pull off unrealistic moves, such as easier running due to Bullet Time, and some brutally tough defences tackles. If these tackles happen frequently enough the players will fight hockey-style, lunging into wild tackles. The team with the most tackles from this gains the Unleashed mode, which has even more gruesome moves, of a style the NFL would not allow to be associated with their product.

Additional features include multiplayer action with head-to-head online play and complete customization options of players, teams, stadiums and more. Lawrence Taylor appears as the poster boy.

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Alternate Titles

• "Blitz 橄榄球联盟" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusives: Xbox 360
• Middleware: FaceFX
• Middleware: RenderWare
• NFL Blitz series
• PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
• Xbox Platinum Hits releases

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Critic Reviews

VGcore	Jul 28, 2006	9.1 out of 10	91
Game Over Online	Nov 08, 2005	84 out of 100	84
Video Game Talk	Nov 16, 2005		80
GameSpy	Oct 25, 2005		80
Cheat Code Central	2005	4 out of 5	80
GamePro (US)	Oct 19, 2005	4 out of 5	80
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2005	7.75 out of 10	78
IGN	Oct 18, 2005	7.2 out of 10	72
Diehard GameFan	Dec 05, 2005	5.5 out of 10	55
The Video Game Critic	Aug 06, 2006	C-	42

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
OFLC Banning	13	Martin Smith (79924) Nov 15, 2007

Trivia

Australian rating

Rejected by the Australian OFLC on January 17, 2007.

Cancelled Wii version

A Wii version was announced, but was later cancelled.

Information also contributed by Big John WV

Related Web Sites

• Blitz: The League (Official game website)
• Wikipedia: Blitz: The League (article in the open encyclopedia about the game)
• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Blitz.)