Mutant Football League 2

Fairly fun but the programmers don't know how to balance the game at all. You can be up 21 points and the way they "balance" it is the other team can break 8 tackles in a single play and just run into the endzone, then recover an onside and run it all the way back. Clown show. I can handle dirty tricks but not sub par programming balance. Also practically unlimited turbo on other team's defense, somehow they know exactly when you are calling a dirty trick and can negate it, and pass interference calls at random but the computer never gets called on it. Fun game, but man they pooped the bed in many aspects and hope they clean it up. Edit: Right after writing this I downed a running back and he got back up and ran it all the way in 60 yards. This thing has bugs EVERYWHERE!

[h1]Mutant Football League 2 Is Just Flat Out Fun[/h1] [h2]The Mutant League Reputation of Drawing Both Non-Sports and Sports fans is Fully Deserved[/h2] MFL2 lets you play exactly how you want to and doesn't require any knowledge of American Football to get started. The game also has hundreds of easter eggs for even the biggest football fans tucked away to get a chuckle from even the most hardcore of the sports fans. The two games on the Genesis are among the consoles most sought after and cherished games for a reason, they're more than sports titles and MFL and MFL2 do a great job to carry on that lineage. The Killadelphia Evils won't come out onto the field for the second half kickoff if you're winning and killing by enough and they also have an Eagle QB player for two small examples of the developers slipping little easter eggs. The development team has huge strengths in their creativity and ability to adapt the game to who's playing it. The presentation is excellent and there's a ton of long lost arcade tricks to level the playing field in favour of or against the player depending on what's happening. They also have a proven track record of releasing a product and [b]REALLY[/b] supporting it long term. The previous game was a failed kickstarter that was built and released anyway, just stripped from the initial vision. Then they spent years adding in new teams, races, features and of course bug fixes. I've been playing the game since it's official release and have seem fix a ton of bugs with regular patches, even hot fixes when required. I'm writing this review because the games fun and I posted a few thoughts had and included the source of a pretty long term nasty bug at the end, that bug got fixed within 2 days of that post. The teams great, the games great and it doesn't matter how much you know about football you'll have a good time with the title. [h2]The Good[/h2] * The overall presentation is excellent with a ton of character and detail in the players themselves. * You can play football or you just kill the other guys, it's about fun and how you want to play. * The gameplay works really well and there's a lot of old-school arcade tricks being used to keep it fun. * Really strong theming encourages you to build a custom team entirely around a specific theme. I've made passing only teams, heavy punishes rushing teams, an all troll team that was slow but hit hard and most recently a team that doesn't play offense at all. Everything I wanted to do I could and all of them were fun experience. * Includes an excellent custom team creator that allows you place a TON of hazards on your homefield. You can make as devious as you want or you can play into your teams name and theme. * Want to make your team nothing but robots who take half damage from mines and fire and cover field with those traps? Absolutely allowed and completely unfair to your opponents too. * You can enjoy it without having any knowledge of football and have fun straight away, even as a complete arcade game novice just looking for something to cool to play fun. * There's also depth in the difficulty and gameplay settings that can meet even the most hardcore min/max efficiency player. * Dynasty lets you get really into the weeds if you want to customize your team and players ability's, plays and even the traps your stadium has. * Dynasty mode has some rough edges but does a good job of increasing the difficulty as your team improves and wins titles. * Season mode works really well and plays into MFL2's strengths really well if you want a more pickup and play gameplay mode. * The developers have a track record of supporting their games long term and they've already fixed a lot of bugs. * The card system is entirely just drops you get from playing games and lets you build a pretty cool collection over time. * Pricing is very fair for the amount of content included at launch and there's no micro transactions at all, including the card system. [h2]The Bad[/h2] * The amount that player stats and ability's get adjusted by the game goes beyond arcade style rubber banding and ventures into frustrating territory. * Dynasty progression starts to fall apart multiple seasons in and takes away some of the fun. * Card system would be better used as a purely a collection system and way to get skillroids for players instead of how it currently works where having lots of cards makes the game easier for players with lots of time invested. * The way the draft and CPU teams work in Dynasty needs a lot more attention. Currently all the draft classes are exactly the same players with different names who just get better ratings with each new season. * The development has some very clear strengths but their weakness shows up with a game that would have right at home in the arcade taking as many quarters as Mortal Kombat and NFL Blitz or NBA Jam but doesn't translate well to the deep franchise modes of modern sports titles. * The CPU goes above and beyond with it's cheating and that can frustrating to deal with. You can deal with it by being able to read pre-play certain formations and being careful with your play calling but it takes away from the enjoyment when you're forced to play a certain way. * Being able to pick and choose which dirty tricks and field hazards are allowed and being able to disable the ones you dislike would go a long way. The Bribe the Ref trick and worms that kill your players every kickoff are noteworthy frustrating points for me. * You will encounter bugs that are rarely game breaking. The vast majority of the bugs are small and mess up stats or opposition team rosters. The development has hot fixed bugs introduced in patches that have caused major issues or lockups. [h2]Who Should or Should Not Buy MFL2[/h2] * There's a really fun experience here and if you're looking for something with that arcade feel that made NFL Blitz, NBA Jam and honestly both Genesis Mutant League titles so beloved you'll have a blast. * Players who have an idea to theme your custom team around for dynasty then you're on the same page as the developers and be rewarded the more heavily you lean into those ideas. * Players expecting a really in depth Dynasty mode like other sports titles are going to be disappointed with the way the draft, trading and free agency works. [h2]Conclusion[/h2] The bottom line is your choice to purchase of a game like this is also your voice. I don't post reviews for games normally but I wanted to share both the good and bad things about MFL2 so people can make their own decision on the game. The developers at Digital Dreams Entertainment track record of ongoing support for their previous games plus the creativity and respect for the players they've shown made MFL2 an automatic buy for me. Mutant Football League 2 is really fun and rewards creativity with plenty of depth for all players. Welcoming for those with no American Football knowledge to those will know exactly why the New Goreleans Zombies have the hardest hitting player in the game.