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NFL Blitz 2000
- January 01, 2000 00:00 AM PST
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Fans of fantasy football were a little disappointed with last year's Blitz for the PlayStation. It was nowhere nearly as good as the Nintendo 64 version, and the poor graphics and shoddy game play made PlayStation owners jealous of their Nintendo counterparts. This year the tables are turned.
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The Blitz Hits the Fans
The PlayStation version of NFL Blitz plays better, looks cleaner, and hits harder than NFL Blitz 2000 for the Nintendo 64. And the changes in this years options lineup serve the game well. Starting with new fields and stadiums, Blitz 2000 also offers offensive and defensive audibles, a play editor, icon-based Blitz passing, and On Fire modes (if you successfully complete three passes in a row or sack the quarterback twice consecutively), where you have unlimited turbo.
Player models this year have a clearer, more definable edge to them, and they move at a faster pace than the N64 version. The animations are still some of the funniest around, with new moves like clotheslines and back-cracking body slams thrown in. Changing weather conditions are nicely represented as well.
Helmet in a Handbasket
The sound is your standard Blitz smash-mouth football. Players taunt each other, whether running away from a defender or smashing the quarterback like a freight train with a helmet. The announcer offers his lame commentary, but for the most part the noise in this game is unobtrusive.
The simple three button game play (passing, tackling, and turbo) is left uncomplicated, and even the new Audible and Blitz passing mode is assigned to free buttons. The game works with both the d-pad and the analog stick, and the analog stick offers movement in more directions.
Got Blitz?
But when it comes right down to it, it's not about fancy graphics or simulation-type options. It's about the fierce, fast, and frenetic game play, and that's what this Blitz delivers. It's heart-stopping, neck-breaking, do-or-die football where the game isn't decided by finesse or strategy, but rather by how well you can turn your opposing teams front line into jelly. The game works well in both the offensive and defensive modes (it's just as much fun to cream the quarterback as it is to score a touchdown), and good players will always have close games under their belt.
Want Madden? Get Madden. Want quick-witted, thumb-numbing action? Blitz 2000 is your season ticket to fun.
