Product Description

Defy gravity and stretch your game to the skies with Tiburon's 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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6295 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 14633148770
• Released on: 2004-12-17
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.50" w x 75.00" l, .28 pounds

Features

• Get airborne 15 feet high to make off-the-wall catches, up-the-wall passes, wall hurdles, and endzone dives, or pull off jukes high on the walls, dusting opponents.
• Seven new games, including Crush the Carrier and Jump Ball Battles, are unveiled for the first time in any football game.
• Create your player, master new skills, and hit the streets
• Recruit new players by hitting the streets - take over neighborhood leagues and dominate the competition
• Revamped GameBreakers for dramatic sequences -- running backs launch off lead blockers, linebackers throw defensive back over the line to force turnovers and much more

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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Customer Reviews

Prepare to learn a whole new meaning to "aerial assault"
When EA Sports' BIG division released NFL Street as the football version of its hit NBA Street many gamers were impressed with how the game took street football to a new level of fun with style moves, sick dives and trash-talking that at times had you laughing too hard for your own good. The only problem with NFL Street was that at times you were pretty much eating the wall with your face whenever your opponent tackled you and you had no way to dodge it.

Well, that little problem has been thankfully resolved (to a point) in the long-awaited NFL Street 2. And as the old adage goes, "The more things change the more they stay the same". NFL Street 2 adds a few new surprises to the mix of 7-on-7 street ball while keeping a few things relatively untouched. As the promos say the game is played in the streets but now will be won in the air.

One of the new things added to Street 2 is the Wall moves. Now you can control your chosen player to run up the wall to either catch a ball, evade tacklers, or even throw some insane passes throughout the game that help you build up your team's game power meter.
Speaking of the meter, the GameBreaker has now been changed to become the GameBreaker 2 (the NFL version of NBA Street, Vol 2's Double GameBreaker). If and when the GB2 is activated it begins a sick looking play series that, depending on whether you are on offense or defense, wil make you harder to hit, be a harder hitter and cause major fumbles, or move fast as you carry the ball across the goalline.

Several new modes are added to NFL Street 2, including Crush the Carrier (basically a game of keepaway in which you score points for carrying the ball), Quick Strike (Score before your opponents do, then prevent them from scoring), 2 Minute Showdown (Score more touchdowns than your opponent within 2:00), Jump Ball (Catch passes being thrown to you and 2 other receivers to score points) and last but not least Own the City.

Own the City is the game's Story Mode in which you create a player then charge through the 5 sections of the city and complete the challenges in each section to build up the ultimate player to challenge in the NFL Challenge mode of the game. And of course for those that may have gotten the ability to do so over the holidays the game does have an Online play mode.

Now although this game had a street date (no pun intended) of Christmas Eve 2004, it came out with plenty of time to be the first of 3 Street games to be released in 2005 (NBA Street, Vol. 3 and FIFA Street being the other two). Needless to say if these game can rule the streets like the first 2 NBA Street games and now the 2 NFL Street games can, then EA Sports BIG can truly say that they run the Streets... this is until they decide to FINALLY make an NHL Street...now THAT would rule...

Great Game! A LOT Better Than The First! Worth The Money!
This is a great game. Fans of the first NFL Street will love this game. There are so many new game modes and features and the online play is a lot of fun (dial-up or broadband/dsl) (Online play works surprisingly well on dial-up for PS2).
The game modes include:

Own the City (You create a guy and gain team members by playing pick up games. If you beat this mode, you can use your guy in NFL Challenge and in Madden 2006).

NFL Challenge (This is like how the first game was. You have 150 days to make your team the best it can be by getting ability points from completing challenges. You can also add real NFL players on your team. You can use your created team online to battle other peoples online teams. Also, I think you earn points to make your players better if you win online).

NFL Gauntlet (You pick a NFL team and battle all the other NFL teams. I'm sure you unlock things as you go through each team).

Pickup Game (This is the old game where you pick players from NFL teams and have an exhibition match with the CPU or with some friends).

Street Events (These are mini games which you can play with the CPU or with friends. Some include include:

Crush the Carrier [You grab the ball and get as much points as you can get until you get tackled and the ball goes up for grabs. Whoever has the most points at the end of time limit wins]

A "500" type game [CPUs throw passes awhile a group of people try to catch the balls. Whoever has the most points at the end of the time limit wins].

Open Field Showdown [You go one-on-one against a CPU or player in a field from like the 20 or 25 yard line. You try to fake-out your opponent and score a touchdown].

There are also many other mini games available but they are like playing a normal pickup game.

New to this game is wall jumps. You can go by the wall and do a wall jump, wall juke, wall pass, or wall catch to get rid of the defense and get those extra yards. Also if you do a wall move on a poster, you get extra points and your gamebreaker meter (the ability to get your guy powered up to make a huge play) will fill up by about a third.

This game has endless possibilities. You can create a guy, create a team, play a lot of people online, play against a friend or against friends, and a lot more. This football game is a break from traditional football games like Madden 2005. Madden is still a great game but its cool in this game because you can jump off the walls and just break free from all the rules and slow-paced action of traditional football games (Madden 2005, ESPN 2K5). This game reminds me a lot of the Blitz series. I would say this is the best football game out there now. And if it was between NFL Street 2 and NBA Street V3, I would say this game. This is probably one of the top ten games out there.

Also, this game has a great soundtrack featuring a lot of rap/hip-hop and punk/rock/alternative. This is not one boring song on the soundtrack and since there are a lot of songs, it doesn't get repetitive.

NFL Street 2 Rocks!
This is a very fun game. Not really meant to be taken seriously.
w/ a little bit of NFL Blitz and a little bit of Madden thrown together, fans of the first NFL Street will love this title. My 8 year old son and I play this game alot and he really enjoys it. He likes it a bit more than Madden right now because it holds his interest a little more. There's a lot of trash talk and he gets off on that. All in all it's a good, fun game that kids and the big guys can enjoy. Probably a great game to play when a bunch of buddies are sitting around drinking and having a football night. Enjoy this title guys...