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Psuedo Sports Games: The 12 Best Unrealistic Sports Titles
- January 27, 2009 15:52 PM PST
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Because you can never have too many explosions and wacky traps in your professional sports games, GamePro counts down 12 of the best "Psuedo-Sports" titles!
For years, video games have been taking the most mundane sports and making them fun for everyone. Why venture outside in the blistering heat/bone chilling cold for go-kart racing when you can stay inside, grab three buddies and race to your hearts' content while tossing obscenities and Blue Shells back and forth? We like our sports to have a little spice, so here's 12 of the best sports games that aren't strictly for the sports crowd: no Maddens, but plenty of Marios.
12: Mutant League Football
Psuedo-Concept: The National Football League meets Halloween Monsters
Football is an awesome game of death, destruction and mayhem in Mutant League Football. Taking place in a post apocalyptic realm where humans have become beasts and the dead walk among the living, MLF remains the only football game in history to include bribery, jetpacks, zombies, fire pits, robots, accidental homicide and landmines. Forget about getting to the endzone, just try getting though 10 yards in one piece.
11: Carmageddon
Psuedo-Concept: Nascar Racing meets Destruction Derbys
Man, people were freaking sensitive in the 1990s. Who knew that Carmageddon's pedestrian-crushing antics would get it banned in so many countries? If there's one thing that will always relieve even the most tense gamer, it's running over people, pets, and property with a racer. It's too bad that the series is dead, but that's why we have games like Burnout.
10: Deathrow
Psuedo-Concept: Roller Derby meets Hockey meets Killer Instinct
Insanely violent, incredibly crass, and utterly addictive, Deathrow is one of the most unrelentingly brutal extreme sports titles of all time, and one of the best games you've probable never played. In the not so distant future of Deathrow, a violent new underground sport known simply as Blitz, a mixture of rugby, hockey and an all-out deathmatch makes its debut through the Blitz Disc Association. Once an illegal activity practiced mostly by gangs to recruit new members, Blitz gets a new lease on life through the BDA on live TV, where gangs, convicts, and cybernetically enhanced soldiers step into the playing field with victory in mind.
9: Pigskin 621 A.D.
Psuedo-Concept: Rugby Football meets Korgoth the Barbarian
Football may be a barbaric sport to some, but Pigskin 621 A.D. literally puts barbarians in the field. Not only are you tasked with carrying the ball to the other end of the grass, but you have to do it without getting shot by arrows, grappled into a pit, or simply torched alive. The best part of Pigskin 621 A.D. may have been losing, since the game would balance the odds by outfitting your team with TROLLS.
8: Tony Hawk Series
Psuedo-Concept: Extreme Skateboarding defies The Laws of Physics
No human on the planet can execute a 180 tailgrab-kickflip-nose manual-heelflip-900 flip while grinding off a moving Chevy. In the Tony Hawk games, however, you can perform stunts that would leave Shaun White red with envy. As if the insane amounts of trick weren't enough to cement the T. Hawk series as the de-facto skateboarding franchise, there's been cameos from Spider-Man and other superheroes, locations from all over the world (like San Francisco, Tokyo and Morocco), and constantly improving series of open worlds. Sure, some people say that the series is in a rut, but at least they didn't ruin it with M-ratings and pixelated boobs. (Cough, BMX XXX, cough.)
7: NFL Blitz
Psuedo-Concept: Major League Football meets Bar Room Brawling
Madden and NCAA titles are fun, but the games' tackling animations don't take it nearly far enough. With NFL Blitz, 500-pound players will literally murder each other for that football. The hulking, steroid-induced bemoths that make up the NFL rosters will head tackle, face mask, and suplex anyone who gets in the way, but the best part is bum rushing the other team after the ball is downed. Fouls and penalty yards are for wimps!
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- Jan 27 2009 at 02:00:10:PM PST
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Gamepro why do you always, in all of these countdowns, put the first place game on the article's cover? Seems very anti-climactic.
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I really love Mario Strikers... good to see it up there. Same with Kart Wii... best Mario Kart yet in my opinion. Another games that surprised me was Mario Hoops 3 on 3 for DS... controls are extremely well made, and the game is really fun!
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DeeDeeDee115 wrote:
i agree with number one but what about SONIC RIDERS
Oh ya i licked Sonic riders to
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I think NBA Jam should be number 1, but I know how much the GP staff loves Strikers, so I guess I can understand why you put it on there.
It's interesting to see Airblade on there. The "Professional" reviews absolutely murdered the game. As you can see, Gp itself only gave it a 2. I take it there's someone on the staff who liked that game. I have a demo of it myself and from what I've played, I've enjoyed of the game. It's in no way horrid.
Isn't it a sequel to Trick(and that word you can't say on this site) on the DC?
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Don't forget Cyberball for Sega Genesis! That game was awesome and very addicting back around 1990.
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wutisupmon wrote:
Gamepro why do you always, in all of these countdowns, put the first place game on the article's cover? Seems very anti-climactic.
Ya i noticed that it always ruins the suspense
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Mario Kart is the best game on this list! I don't really care for "realistic" sport games, but I love the games on this list because they're something you can't play in real life. Really awesome.
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