Yup, you read that correctly. The NFL is now so pathetic that they are banning late hits in video games. As we told you a couple months back NFL Blitz 2012 is set to drop on January 3. The game is finally being made by EA Sports again and will have real NFL player names unlike the 2008 version of the game that had fake player and team names. Here is the reasoning the NFL gave.
Games Radar - “When we started working on this game we partnered very early on with the
NFL and talked to them about what it is we wanted to deliver. We played the old
versions of Blitz with them and we talked with them throughout the course of
this entire product development cycle and, at the end of the day, the NFL felt
like the late hits did not meet with their take on player health and safety,
and they asked us to remove it from the game. Right now we have big action and
big, over-the-top gameplay, but once the whistle blows there are no late hits.”
“They understand that it’s not a simulation and
they understand that it’s over-the-top, but at the end of the day they really
felt like, with the messaging that they have, and with their stance on player
health and safety, that it was something that was better left out of the game at
this point,” he explained. “It still has the same over-the-top arcade
experience that people remember from the old version of the game… it just doesn’t
have the late hits anymore.”
Is this real life? They're really stepping in on one of the best video games ever made and taking away late hits. That's half the reason the game was awesome in the first place. You can have an 80-yard bomb dropped on your defense and you forget about it right away cause you can clothes line some dude into the ground or pull a Hogan leg drop. It was strait NFL mixed with WWE. What a waste.
