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Blitz: The League

Blitz: The League is an American football game by Midway as an unlicensed extension of their NFL Blitz series. Released after the NFL signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts, it was released in…

70 17 October 2005

Blitz: The League is a sport developed by Midway Games, released 17 October 2005 on Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Blitz: The League is

Blitz: The League is a sport game developed by Midway Games and released in 2005. It is available on Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blitz: The League is an American football game by Midway as an unlicensed extension of their NFL Blitz series. Released after the NFL signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts, it was released in October 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. This game is the first in the Blitz series to receive an "M" rating by the ESRB due to the graphic violence, explicit language, and drug use depicted. Lawrence Taylor, who provides voice acting for the game, serves as its official spokesman. In 2006, a second version of the game was released on the Xbox 360 in October. In December 2006, a portable version was released on the PlayStation Portable (under the title Blitz: Overtime). These…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Blitz: The League holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Blitz: The League launched on 17 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).

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When did Blitz: The League come out?
Blitz: The League was released on 17 October 2005 for Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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