Backyard Football '10
By Christopher Healy,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Even the youngest armchair quarterback can tackle this game.
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What’s It About?
BACKYARD FOOTBALL '10 is the latest in a series of sports games that allow kids to play sports with other kids. Youthful versions of many real-life NFL players are also in the game. Settings, like the characters, are cartoony and unrealistic, including a construction yard, a snowy mountainside, and a desert complete with UFOs abducting cows in the background. Playing well gives kids power moves, like a flipping over tacklers, growing bull horns to charge through a defensive line, or turning briefly into a mini-twister. Kids can play a single game or a 16-game season. Two-player cooperative mode also allows up to four kids to challenge each other, two on two.
Is It Any Good?
Backyard Football '10 is as fun as it is easy to pick up. Older kids who relish the realism of the Madden football games will likely find this one too childish. But younger gamers will be easily wooed by its bright colors, simple control scheme, and silly humor (the endearingly dimwitted commentator will elicit plenty of laughs from the SpongeBob set). The new ability to play cooperatively is a very welcome addition to the series. Kids playing football sims have longed to pass the ball to one another -- finally the have the chance.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about good sportsmanship. Is showboating and dancing in the end zone something real football leagues allow? Why is it frowned upon by most school sports teams?
Parents can also ask their kids about the special "power moves" in the game. Are they cheating? Gluing the ball to the quarterbacks hand would never be allowed in real football, so why is it included here? Can rules be bent for fun sometimes?
Kids can create custom avatars in this game. Parents can ask children why they created avatars that look the way they do.
Game Details
- Platforms: Nintendo Wii , PlayStation 2 , Xbox 360
- Available online?: Not available online
- Publisher: Atari
- Release date: October 20, 2009
- Genre: Sports
- Topics: Sports and Martial Arts
- ESRB rating: E for (No descriptors)
- Last updated: August 31, 2016
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