NFL Street

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NFL Street is a series of sports video games developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts. Currently there are three games in the series, NFL Street and NFL Street 2, both released in 2004, and NFL Street 3 was released on November 15th, 2006. The NFL Street series is made in the same vein as NBA Street and other franchises such as NFL Blitz. Similar to Blitz, Street is seven-on-seven American football. NFL Players in the game wear street clothing instead of helmets and uniforms but the players can also wear jerseys.

NFL Street

NFL Street
Developer(s)EA Tiburon
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Platform(s)GameCube, PS2, Xbox
ReleaseJanuary 14, 2004
Genre(s)Sports game
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

Arenas

NFL Street was released for GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox on January 14, 2004. It featured Justin Bua's rendering of Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams on the cover. Bua is also featured in the opening sequence of the game.

Like every other American football game, NFL Street has the basic rules, but as with NFL Blitz this game has no fouls and low penalty gameplay. Naturally, this leads to a much more violent game than its real-life model. However, to maintain the "IronMan" status, there are no injuries in any game.

NFL Street 2

NFL Street 2
Developer(s)EA Tiburon
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Platform(s)GameCube, PS2, Xbox
ReleaseDecember 22, 2004
Genre(s)Sports game
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer

NFL Street 2 was released on December 22, 2004 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox video game consoles. It was also ported to the PSP in 2005. The cover featured tight end Jeremy Shockey and rapper Xzibit. Instead of touring all over the U.S., NFL Street 2 took place in a untitled fictional city.

Arenas

  • The Back Lot
  • Sportsplex
  • The Tracks
  • The Aqueduct
  • The Dig
  • 2nd St. Station
  • The Cage
  • The Alley
  • Royal Park
  • Imperial Tower
  • EA Field (Unlockable)
  • Gridiron Park (Unlockable)

Own The City Mode

This game mode is the newest mode of NFL Street 2, the player must create a character and win all of the street games in the city. The player must play pick-up games to recruit talent for a team. The pick-up games are made up of randomly generated players. As the game progresses, the player will need to find better talent. If the player is successful they will face Xzibit and his team of NFL stars. When the player completes Own The City mode, the created player can be imported to Madden NFL 2006, another successful football title, or can be imported to the NFL Challenge.

NFL Challenge

NFL Challenge is the official mode of the NFL Street series. The player must build up a team in 150 days to face the NFL Stars by completing challenges, such as scoring 250,000 style points on the Philadelphia Eagles. Winning the challenges gives the player development points to spend on the players but also at the expense of days. When 5 days remain, a tournament opens up and the player's team must win the tournament to complete NFL Challenge. If the player advances into the final round, they face the NFL Legends, a team of NFL stars from the 1970s and 1980s.

Gamebreaker 2s

One of the new features in NFL Street 2 is the addition of Gamebreaker 2. The player must first acquire many style points to unlock a gamebreaker and then without using it, acquire the same amount of style points again. When called at the line of scrimmage, A cutscene occurs in which on defense, the defense stylishly gets the ball back while on offense, the offense stylishly gets over the line of scrimmage. After the cutscene, the player enters a "God Mode" in which he has unlimited turbo and will break 95% of his tackles.

NFL Street cover athletes

NFL teams in NFL Street

The teams feature 17 players on the 32 NFL Teams from the 2004 NFL season, but the rosters are accurate as of November of 2004.

Trivia

  • Level 1 is the worst level of attributes, and level 20 is the best level of attributes. Reebok equipment can raise a player's attributes over 20.
  • Rookie Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals, LaVar Arrington of the New York Giants, Antonio Gates of the San Diego Chargers and Steven Jackson of the St. Louis Rams do not appear in this game.
  • Redskins running back Clinton Portis and Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson are the guide characters and narrate the tutorials in NFL Street 3.
  • The player can import the player in Own The City to Madden NFL 2006 or NFL Challenge Mode.
  • Rapper Xzibit is the guide character in Own The City Mode and appears in the opening scene and does the tutorials
  • Michael Vick's name in the game is spelled as simply Mike Vick (note that this has also been done to Vick's name in Backyard Football), the same is for Micheal Barrow, whose name is spelled Mike Barrow.
  • NFL Players Jeremy Shockey, Alge Crumpler, Javon Walker, and Xzibit appear on the front cover, Daunte Culpepper is on the back cover.
  • EA Field is a field-representation of EA Sports Studios.
  • The businesses on the field Gridiron Park are direct representations of football definitions and jargon--example First Down Bank and Endzone Pizza.
  • The rookie player in the opening scene is Xzibit wearing a Philadelphia Eagles jersey number 34(which belongs to Reno Mahe) Xzibit daydreams of being a star player until Jeremy Shockey snaps him out of the daydream and asks him "Are you just going to stand here or are we going to play ball?"
  • There are no punts and kickoffs or field goals which means that the player must go for it on fourth down every time and only try a one-point on the five yard line or two-point conversion on the ten yard line.
  • Reebok apparel and Stevie Williams are product placements in the game although he is called Steve Williams.
  • The name of the city to own in NFL Street 2 is named Bay City which could possibly mean it is in San Francisco, California, USA but some features give it a complexion that it could be in Miami or New York or just a combination of these places.
  • In the game the players play both ways--offense and defense.
  • Unlike a real football game, the system of play is touchdowns and there is no time limit unless it is in Two Minute Challenge.
  • Peyton Manning, Mike Alstott, Brett Favre, rookie Reno Mahe, Brian Urlacher, Randy Moss, Ray Lewis, and Xzibit are chosen for a pickup game in an abandoned parking lot, their names are being called in the opening cutscene. However, Brian Westbrook is referred to as "The Rookie."
  • If a Need For Speed Underground 2 or Burnout save file is available in the player's memory card, they receive 25,000 credits which can be used to purchase clothing, tattoos, and accessories.
  • The player can edit any NFL team's gear, but the player cannot edit attributes.
  • The NFL Gauntlet is a tournament featuring all of the NFL teams with the worst being the San Diego Chargers and the best being New England Patriots.
  • Sterling Sharpe, Bo Jackson, Eric Dickerson, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, Anthony Munoz, Randall Cunningham, Mike Singletary, Cris Carter, Darrell Green, and Joey Browner make up the NFL Legends team.
  • These NFL rookies appear: Lance Briggs (note that Briggs was drafted in 2003), Eli Manning, Reggie Williams, Tommie Harris, Ben Roethlisberger, Kellen Winslow II, Julius Jones, Rashaun Woods and Sean Taylor.
  • There is no Barry Sanders like the original game but a character can be created in his likeness.

NFL Street 3

NFL Street 3 is the third installment of the NFL Street Series which was released on November 15th, 2006 for the Playstation 2 and PlayStation Portable. This time the player can perform jumping moves to get big air over opponents. This installment features more game modes and tons of entertaining moves and things to unlock. Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals appears on the cover. Clinton Portis also appears in the game in the opening. As Johnson and Portis imply in all videos, NFL Street 3 is all about respect.

Game modes

  • Bank: A competition to earn the most style points.
  • Play Elimination: The team begins the match with a specific amount of plays in the playbook, if the selected play does not gain any yards or results in negative yards the play is eliminated. This goes on until there are no plays left. You win by eliminating all of your opponent's plays and scoring a touchdown
  • Pick-Up Game: Fill Up a Team with the NFL’s best stars. Schoolyard picks, either 40 random players, or all of them.
  • Time Attack: A Mode where the player must score within the time limit of possession, if the player scores any remaining time will be added to the score.
  • Yards for Points: Every yard you gain is a point. Every yard on a run play is worth 2 points, while every yard on a pass play is only worth one point. If a turnover occurs, then it subtracts points from the opponent's gain for that play, when the ball reaches the line of scrimmage, the opponent loses points from their total.
  • Gamebreakes are also a big part in Nfl Street 3.Cameron Johnson is the son of Chad Johnson and he lives in Vallejo California

New features

Reception and awards

  • Received award for Best Alternative Sports Game of 2006 for PlayStation 2 from IGN.

External links

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