The League does futz with the Blitz formula a bit, however, and in quite satisfying ways. You'll call a play, and that's the play you'll run, dammit. Just don't expect any fancy audibles or defensive scheme shifts to be available. You still call plays as you would in any football game, and you can run, pass, and tackle at the press of single buttons. But really, anyone with a basic understanding of football ought to be able to pick up The League's simplistic mechanics quite easily. This is eight-on-eight football with an incredibly quick pace, 30-yard downs, and the kinds of barbarous hits that would snap a typical human being in half. If you ever played Blitz in its arcade heyday, the core mechanics of The League will be immediately familiar to you. Now Playing: Blitz: The League Video Review Ladies and gentlemen, Blitz is back.Įvil team owners? A ragtag crew of misfit players? Drunken debauchery? No, this isn't Major League the game, it's Blitz: The League.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's This is Blitz at its best, adding an even meaner, uglier spirit to the game that will have anyone with a strong stomach and a thirst for brutality jumping out of his or her seat in elation with every murderous tackle landed. But at its core, The League returns to the familiar brand of arcade football that Blitz all but abandoned just a couple of short years ago. In Blitz: The League, Midway has bid farewell to the NFL by creating its own brand of football with completely original teams and rosters. Evidently, all you need is a way to scratch that primal, animalistic itch to slam some pretty-boy quarterback's face in to the turf, breaking his spine in the process and leaving behind little more than a wake of devastation and offensive drives that never were. What makes a football game fun? Is it the NFL license and careful attention to the details of said license? Is it realistic rules, pacing, and gameplay? Is it a deep franchise mode and 32 teams full of players you know and recognize? If Midway's latest entry in the Blitz franchise, Blitz: The League, is any indication, the answer is an emphatic no.

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