Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition
By David Chapman,
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Frenzied football fun on a violent, trap-filled gridiron.
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What’s It About?
The gridiron becomes the meat grinder in MUTANT FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DYNASTY EDITION, the spiritual successor to the 1993 Sega Genesis classic, Mutant League Football. There's no such thing as "unnecessary roughness" in this world where 24 teams of monsters, undead, and yes, even aliens, face off in brutal 7-on-7 football action. Sporting behavior goes out the window too, as players can bribe the ref to swing momentum in their favor or use any number of other dirty tricks to electrocute, decapitate, or otherwise dismember the other team. Getting outscored by the opposition? Who needs a mercy rule when you can just kill off enough players to force a forfeit? Home field advantage takes on a whole new meaning when even the field itself is littered with landmines, pitfalls, and other assorted booby traps. The Dynasty Edition adds lots of new content, such as werewolves, demons, six new teams and arenas, and new dirty tricks to mess with your opponent. It also offers a Dynasty mode, where players take on the role of the coach and GM, balancing your team's salary cap and player trades. The goal here is to build a team from a losing franchise into a multiple Mayhem Bowl winning organization that's the envy of the league. Football has never been more deadly ... or more fun.
Is It Any Good?
"Full contact sports" takes on a whole new meaning when you're dealing with booby traps and bloodthirsty creatures itching to win at any cost. At least, that's the premise behind the over-the-top, postapocalyptic arcade football game Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition. Right off the bat, it needs to be said that this isn't exactly a wholesome, family-friendly take on football night. At its default settings, the game features more profanity, lewd jokes, and bloody violence than a cheesy '80s horror flick. That being said, most of the mature content can be either muted or cranked up to 11 in the game's settings. Of course, even on the lower maturity settings, it's still going to be more gladiatorial than gridiron.
No matter which way you choose to watch the action in Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition, you're in for a fast-paced and fun arcade experience. With a reduced 7-on-7 lineup, the pace of the game is nonstop. The controls are straightforward and effective, and working the field is relatively easy, especially with the newly included custom playbooks to fit your personal offensive or defensive schemes. The one drawback is that your AI teammates sometimes charge blindly into traps and hazards, especially during big plays. There's nothing more frustrating than running down the field for a touchdown, only to learn four of your players are six feet under. But this can happen on both sides of the match, so it generally balances out. The same thing applies to the game's various dirty tricks. These game-changing plays can drive you nuts when they're used against you, but you can't help relishing when you successfully pull one off for your team. Even better now is the inclusion of a Dynasty mode, giving you the reins of your team as you try to build a misfit bunch of monsters into a multiple year contender for the Mayhem Bowl. That means signing free agents, balancing your salary cap with resurrecting dead players or boosting their stats, and trading players that just don't hold their weight. It works very well, and adds so much more depth to the gameplay. As insane, as brutal, and as dirty as Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition can be, it's still surprisingly balanced and just a heck of a lot of fun.
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Game Details
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , Windows , Xbox One
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: Digital Dreams Entertainment, LLC.
- Release date: October 30, 2018
- Genre: Sports
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy , Sports and Martial Arts , Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires , Robots , Space and Aliens
- ESRB rating: M for Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Mature Humor, Strong Language, Violence
- Last updated: October 25, 2021
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