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The whimsical Backyard Football series makes its GameCube debut with a choice of 32 NFL teams and a total of 40 children to play as or against, ten of whom are based on professional players. Each character is rated five distinct areas: passing, catching, running, blocking/tackling, and kicking. The five-on-five action takes place on one of eight 3D fields featuring varied surfaces such as dirt, grass, sand, and turf.
Weather is also part of the game, with rain, snow, and sunny games all possible with a click of a button in the options screen. Instead of including stadiums found in more traditional renditions of the sport, players will be able to toss the pigskin at such offbeat venues as Cactus Gulch, where cacti populate the sidelines, tumbleweeds periodically roll across the screen, and vultures loom overhead.
Modes of play include a tutorial, an exhibition match, and a complete season with statistical tracking for teams and individual players. Playbooks are designed to be humorous as well as functional, featuring names like Pirate Blitz, Mantis, Leap Frog and Sonic Boom. Special "Power Plays" are also available after winning multiple games. During the action, a fictional announcer named Chuck Downfield offers upbeat play-by-play commentary in between the occasional knock-knock joke.
The ten featured pros (as little tykes) include Donovan McNabb, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Ricky Williams, Terrell Davis, Jerry Rice, Rich Gannon, and Michael Vick. While the athletes are dressed in uniforms, the rest of the children wear whatever makes them feel most comfortable. Receiver Vicki Kawaguchi, for example, appears in a pink leotard and frilly white tutu, while the hard-hitting Tony Delvecchio wears a black T-shirt underneath a silver vest. The four-player Backyard Football is recommended for ages seven and older.
I know the World of Football Games. I was a kid in 1978 when Atari made Arcade Games a Huge Thing! Still a kid in the early 1980s when home systems made it big! In college in the early 90s when Game Systems got even better! Now in 2009 I'm playing games with my kids.
I've played hours of every Football Game ever made over the past 30 years. Played against all my friends on all types of systems. The most important thing in a Football Game is the ability for almost anyone to be able to play it, so that it's even more fun to play with friends.
Backyard Football is one of the Best Ever! It's easy enough for anyone to play, very fun, and challenging enough even for the most avid football fans of any age. You can even set how hard the game plays by picking: Easy, Medium, or Hard. You can create players, create teams, create plays, and start your own season.
Sure it's not very Technical and doesn't have all the information about Players in the Real World, but who really cares about that? Most of the real players end up beating their wifes, getting arrested for drugs, or end up ruining their careers and lifes anyways. You don't need a playbook with hundreds of plays either, because no one wants to spend their life playing an arcade game.
But if you want a game that's easy, but challenging, and a blast to play with friends then this is it!!!
Plus even your Women and Girls will love it, because it has Girls in the game too! Plus some of the best players in the Game are Girls! You could create teams of Girls vs the Boys!Read full review
My 8 year old grandson really likes this game. His eleven year old brother has all the Madden football games and they are too hard for him. He says this is fun to play and a lot easier. One more thing, his older brother plays it with him too.