NFL Street 2 is an American footballvideo game developed by EA Tiburon and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports BIG label. It was originally released for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox on December 22, 2004. It features then-New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey and rapper Xzibit on the cover.
The game is compatible with Madden NFL 06, as players can import their Own The City players to it. The game’s compatibility also extends to other EA games like Need for Speed: Underground 2, SSX 3, Madden NFL 2005, NCAA Football 2005, NFL Street, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, NBA Live 2005, and NBA Street Vol. 2, where if players have these games on their memory cards (or hard drive in Xbox’s case), they can earn 25,000 points in the game.[1]
Gameplay – NFL Street 2
One of the new features in NFL Street 2 is the addition of the Gamebreaker 2. The player first has to acquire 100,000 style points to unlock a gamebreaker and then without using their gamebreaker, acquire the same number 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 all of his tackles.
The game also features Running Moves. Some of the running moves are the juke, the spin, the wall move, the wall juke, the stiff arm and the hurdle. These moves give the player style points.
Reception – NFL Street 2
Reception
| Publication | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC | PS2 | PSP | Xbox | |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 8.5/10[8] | 8.5/10[8] | 8/10[9] | 8.5/10[8] |
| Game Informer | 7.5/10[10] | 7.5/10[10] | 7/10[11] | 7.5/10[10] |
| GamePro | N/A |   [12] | N/A | [12] |
| GameRevolution | C+[13] | C+[13] | C+[14] | C+[13] |
| GameSpot | 6.9/10[15] | 7.1/10[16] | 7.2/10[17] | 7.1/10[16] |
| GameSpy | [18] | [19] |  [20] | [21] |
| GameZone | 9/10[22] | 9.1/10[23] | 8/10[24] | 8.9/10[25] |
| IGN | 8.9/10[26] | 8.9/10[26] | 7.8/10[27] | 8.9/10[26] |
| Nintendo Power | 3.7/5[28] | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine | N/A | [29] | [30] | N/A |
| Official Xbox Magazine (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8/10[31] |
| Detroit Free Press | N/A | [32] | N/A | N/A |
| The Times | [33] | [33] | N/A | [33] |
The game received “favorable” reviews on all platforms except the PSP version, which received “average” reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[34][37][35][36]
The Times gave the game three stars out of five and said that though the game “does enough to entertain for an hour or two, fans of proper football, played with feet, are likely to find it quite dull.”
[33] Jim Schaefer of Detroit Free Press gave the PS2 version a score of two stars out of four and called it “a fine game, just like the first version, which earned three stars from me. But the scant innovations in Street 2 make it optional for anyone who has the original.”[32]
The Sydney Morning Herald similarly gave the same version two-and-a-half stars out of five and stated, “While Street 2 is appealingly approachable, it gets monotonous, particularly for owners of the original. Solo modes are dull and arduous.”[38]
NFL Street 2 Soundtracks
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