3/5 ★ – Lammy's review of NFL Street 2.

NFL Street 2 post-Own the City mode: This was my Secret Santa game, Merry Christmas whoever gave it to me! NFL Street 2 is a football video game released in 2004 that served as a companion piece to that year's Madden installment. Unlike its professionally coded peer, NFL Street 2 presents itself as a street ball game, with looser rules and no field goals. Own the City mode is the closest thing to a story mode the game has, and directs you to play pickup games to build an almost roguelike team of strong players in order to defeat the world's best football player, the rapper Xzibit. The game's conrols are solid, though the AI's limited versatility means that certain plays and routes are far superior than others. Unfortunately, the length of each section of the City, and the number of sections required to clear, makes actually playing the sportsball very tedious. The graphics are... 2004 sports game. The soundtrack is phenomenal, with tracks from such storied 2004 artists as Nas and Drowning pool, though the overall mix is pretty short; an hour or two of play will have you experience every song once or twice. Overall, the game's... good? Like, it works, and the gameplay loop is consistent, and I feel like if you like sports games you'll enjoy it a lot! I just happen to not be a fan of sports games, but that's not the game's fault. I'm gonna give it a 6/10 because of the amount of times I got frustrated, but this game's target audience would probably rate it much higher.