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A superstar replacement for EA’s NFL Street series, NFL Tour brings the spectacle of a traveling NFL road show alive, with intuitive controls, fast-paced gameplay, and visually stunning graphics. Gamers will be able to embark on a fictional NFL road show. With real NFL players as teammates, players will travel across the country to play against each of the NFL teams in newly designed stadiums. As players defeat each of the NFL squads, they come one step closer to winning a NFL contract.

Genre: Sports Action

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Tiburon

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January 10, 2008 –
In 2004, EA Sports Big released NFL Street, a title that capitalized on playground style football with a heavy dose of trash talk and trick plays reminiscent of their NBA Street franchise. The series spawned two sequels that were well received, and fans eagerly awaited the game’s arrival on the PS3 and the 360. However, with the leap to the newer systems, EA Sports Big decided to take the franchise in a new direction, removing the street angle, high flying tricks, gamebreakers and other elements that it was known for. Unfortunately, the result is that NFL Tour, the “evolution” of the Street titles, also has had the fun and enjoyment stripped out of the game entirely, making the title a shadow of its former greatness.

If you were looking for the hazardous settings from previous Street games, you won’t find it on the NFL tour. Gone are the broken down drive-ins, beach games and construction yards strewn with crates and barrels. In their place is a pre-packaged Astroturf field complete with fireworks, bleachers and stages that travels around the U.S.A, putting on off-season seven-on-seven football games. With an atmosphere more like the NFL Experience at the Superbowl, teams are pitted against each other for the enjoyment of the crowd. Pads are removed, as are the uprights, kickers and referees, while arena football-style walls have been erected around the field. Halves are reduced to 90 seconds, and while there are no time outs, the clock stops at the end of every play to give each team an opportunity to score as much as possible.

While you’ll want to exploit any mismatches that you can see, the key feature on the field with NFL Tour revolves around contact on either side of the ball. Depending on when you get hit, you’re given a chance to reverse the outcome of the contact by hitting a button at the right time. If you’re on defense, you can potentially trip up a runner or stop a second effort of a receiver that’s trying to escape your grasp. On offense, good timing can reverse any tackle, and if you chain these reversals together with successive button presses, you can break out to open field and six points.

Don’t expect to place your quarterback as a safety or a cornerback, either. NFL Tour actually trades out squads on both sides of the ball, so the offensive and defensive players of your favorite team will actually grace the field in their positions instead of rotating into positions they’re inexperienced with. The changes sound pretty good