Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 13 NFL Blitz Games

Get ready for oversized athletes, larger-than-life plays and hits so hard that they practically shake your television. No, I’m not talking about the Super Bowl, but rather my favorite football series – NFL Blitz. First released in the arcade in 1997 by Midway, this over-the-top sports game was designed to do for football what NBA Jam did for basketball. It was a fun and extremely accessible game that not only appealed to fans of the sport, but also those who couldn’t care less about football. With the Super Bowl happening today, it got me curious what Electronic Gaming Monthly said about the NFL Blitz series. What was their favorite game? As it turns out, EGM reviewed a total of thirteen games in the NFL Blitz franchise. This includes pretty every installment released on consoles, including the 2000 spin-off – Kurt Warner’s Arena Football Unleashed. While mostly comprehensive, the long-running magazine never got around to reviewing Blitz: The League II and the 2012 reboot from Electronic Arts. While that’s disappointing, I think you’ll agree that this is a solid list that goes over just about all of the franchise. What we’re going to do today is countdown the best and worst NFL Blitz games using Electronic Gaming Monthly’s own words and scores. There’s no editorializing here, we’re just going to focus on what the critics said back when these games first came out. I sure hope you brought a lot of padding, because these tackles are real when EGM Ranks NFL Blitz. 0:00 – Introduction 1:49 – Commercial: NFL Blitz (U.S.) 2:21 – Kurt Warner’s Arena Football Unleashed (PlayStation) 3:05 – NFL Blitz 2001 (PlayStation) 3:48 – NFL Blitz Pro (PS2, GameCube & Xbox) 4:30 – NFL Blitz 20-03 (PlayStation 2) 5:10 – NFL Blitz 2001 (Dreamcast) 5:40 – NFL Blitz 20-02 (Xbox) 6:20 – NFL Blitz 2000 (Nintendo 64) 6:54 – NFL Blitz 20-02 (PlayStation 2) 7:46 – Blitz: The League (PlayStation 2 & Xbox) 8:25 – NFL Blitz 2000 (PlayStation) 8:57 – NFL Blitz (PlayStation) 9:29 – NFL Blitz 2000 (Dreamcast) 10:08 – NFL Blitz (Nintendo 64) 10:44 – Commercial: NFL Blitz 2000 (U.S.) 11:16 – Question of the Day Join our brand-new Discord Server:   / discord   Defunct Games is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/defunctgames... Defunct Games is on Facebook:   / defunctgames   Defunct Games is home to thousands of reviews, articles, comedy pieces, podcasts, features and more: www.defunctgames.com #NFLBlitz #ElectronicGamingMonthly #SuperBowl