NFL Street

"When playing both sides of the ball was never so cool."

Hard hitting 7 on 7 action has never been better. EA Big has done great with this title and i hope there will be another next year.

Graphics : 9 :
One of the greatest looking football games yet. No more looking at Helmets Glisten or Jerseys that have realistic patterns. Now you can wear Caps and anything you would wear in real life when playing street football. The Game play is great and the colors blend well. Lighting is also done well and i must say if they can do good on streets why cant they do good on all the other titles? Backgrounds are greatly displayed with things on the side you can hit like trashcans. Even in one stage the mud comes up when your tackled on it and that is pure genius.

Sound : 10 :
The soundtrack on this game is great with some catchy tunes and then the X-Ecutioners mixing the beats during in game play. Few no name songs are in there but the sound track is rather popular with Lost Prophets and Three 6 Mafia. And EA has made it so no matter what music you like or don't like you can edit what is played. Now occasionally during in game the voices don't match. But unless your someone that looks into voices of players instead of how they play then this is a perfect game with a perfect soundtrack.

Playability : 9 :
At first when you pop this game in your system its perfect. Its the perfect form of football and smash mouth crap talking. But then after awhile its gets boring even lighting your opponent up while on game breaker gets annoying after awhile. And the fact that you fumble the ball a lot is also annoying. In fact in 5 minutes quarters you mite fumble the ball 5 times a game. Depending on who you playing of course.

Entertainment : 9 :
This game is awesome it has so many things to do. You can start with your basic pick a team and duel it out. Or you can play a pick up game where it gives you a limited supply of athletes to choose from and then you duel it out. The greatest of it all is the Challenge mode you will get stuck to the TV smash mouthing it with the leagues best players. Working your way through them unlocking things from clothing your players can wear to Plays you can use in your play book. During the game you can also pick up a few of the NFL greatest. Only problem that this game has coming up short in the Entertainment department is the fact that once you beat everything and run out of tokens.. its over... you either start over with a new team or just strictly play 1 on 1 games.

So for the most part if you wanting a smash mouth game that really excludes most of the rules and allows you to be yourself, then this is that game. Its a great title for friends to compete against each other and i recommend it as a must buy. Even if it is for the sake of just listening to the Soundtrack.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 07/21/04