Things weren't looking bright for football of the American variety on the Switch, so this news comes with incredibly good timing. Digital Dreams Entertainment is preparing to bring the brutal insanity of Mutant Football League to the Switch. This Unity-driven spiritual sequel to the Sega Megadrive classic Mutant League Football was a Kickstarter success story and has since steadily become a fan favourite while making a natural transition from PC to game consoles.
If you are unfamiliar with the original 16-bit game, picture Madden but with skeletons, orcs, and robots instead of the usual human players. Now grab the rulebook and throw it out the window. Bribing the referee is the mildest of dirty tricks you can use to get an advantage, with some truly incredible carnage being provided by not only traps built into the football fields but by giving your star quarterback weapons to clear a path to a very bloody touchdown. Four player couch co-op and online modes will ensure this will be a lovely way to ruin friendships.
If you ever played any game of Midway's NFL Blitz franchise, we are sure this trailer will bring back some fun memories. In case you are wondering - no, your ears are not deceiving you; the one and only Tim Kitzrow of NBA Jam fame will be reprising his role as the colourful commentator.
While there is no official release date just yet, Digital Dreams is bringing the most recent Switch build to demo at this year's edition of E3, so hopefully, we will have more definitive news soon.
Were you a fan of Mutant League Football or NFL Blitz? Is Bones Jackson your favourite MFL player? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Off-brand Bloodbowl?
Looks like good fun no matter where it came from. :9
@Pod Well, I'm not sure there's ever been an action version of Bood Bowl. The Cyanide games are essentially the board game translated for PCs.
That said I wouldn't mind seeing Blood Bowl on Switch. I would like having the option to play it on the go without having to dish out a lot of cash for new miniatures just to try a different team or playstyle (not to mention that very few teams have been released for the new Blood Bowl so far – not even High Elves are out yet!). It would work pretty well with local co-op.
Who needs Madden.
*Mutant American Football League
Never played it, but I miss Blitz so much... I'll give it a try !
Hope this becomes a great success ,and a yearly release so when ea pulls their heads out of the sand and finally bring madden to switch it will be too late
I was one of over 3000 original Kickstarter backers because this game is exactly what I always wanted: A ultra violent version of NFL Blitz. I am truly happy to be able to break this news at Nintendo Life because this game is the perfect couch co-op experience that the Switch so readily provides. If you want to give it a spin, you can download a free demo on STEAM. Hope the Switch release date is announced soon.
Loved the original MLF.... Would have preferred to see Mutant League Hockey get revived, but this is a good start.
PS. SOMEBODY give us a portable hockey game! PLLEEEAAASSEE!
@daveh30 I fall goes well Mutant Hockey League should follow this up in the future.
Pretty sad that because one company owns the "rights" to real American Football, and makes up a total nonsense reason for not wanting to release a game on the Switch, that American Football fans have to settle for this sort of silliness. Silly sports games have their place, but frankly I don't think it is healthy for the industry that one company can just buy up the rights and no one else can make a "realistic" Football game. (or Soccer or Ice Hockey or whichever sport)
It's just really anti competitive. EA has used its wealth to make it so it has no real direct competition with games like Madden or Fifa.
@Heavyarms55 They can make a realistic american footballgame, hockey or whatever they will however not be able to use the actual players likenesses. it's just that people would not be as interested.
However i'd rather play this 'silliness' then some actual american footballgame because this look like a lot more fun.
DAY ONE....
NFL Blitz... NFL street... MFL...
just let me play it already!!!
@ktej75 Like I said, silly style sports games have their place. And you are right, people can make a realistic style Football game without the real teams, but it will almost always flop. The idea of the more realistic games it playing with the teams known and loved by fans. Having the rights to those whole leagues means that rivals are are an automatic, massive, disadvantage and I think that is bad for the industry. It also allows EA or whoever not have to put the effort into the game that they really should, because they know they can ride on the back of the famous names.
I’m down for this. Love football games and this looks really fun. Like the fact it has online and 4-player co-op.
Nice surprise. Mutant League Football was fun back in the day
Loved the original, really liked this in early access. I look forward to having it on my switch. Better than madden anyway.
@Heavyarms55 This is why I hope upstart leagues like the XFL (or more like revival in its case) and the AAF have some success and some fairly known players see them as real alternatives
Omg. Played this on sega back in my teenage years can't wait
@Shiryu Is it as simple as Blitz 64/2000 as far as controls and play choices?
Shoot, I'd prefer this over Madden anyday. Getting quite tired of the Madden franchise, tbh. I miss the good ole days of NFL Blitz, and this brings back fond memories. Bye bye Madden, hello Mutant football.
DLC where I get to shoot Tom Brady and sold.
@AG_Awesome Pretty much, yes. if you played Blitz on the Gamecube, it is basically the very same game.
@Shiryu I loved the original on the mega drive, is this more of the same?
@santaglause It is closer to NFL Blitz than the orignal top down 2D view, but the spirit is all here.
@Pod Amusingly, it's actually a spiritual to this 90ies Sega game! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_League_Football
If I recall, there even was a cartoon back when I was a kid. Edit: Yup, there was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_League
Was hoping this would make it. Good way to start the morning.
@SmaggTheSmug
You are of course right that bloodbowl isn't and action game. And several guys in here showed up to set the record straight.
@Ludovsky
That is amazing! Just checked out the intro to the series as well. Looks like they have the 90's oddball falvour intact for this revival.
Getting this without question day one. Played a foit ball spinoff back in the day- Cyberball, both arcade and Lynx versions. Still not sure why EA isn't releasing Madden on the Switch.
An American flag, a dead Uncle Sam and of course, a beloved revolver. That's quite an image that sadly will be lost on most of my red-blooded countrymen.
@SmaggTheSmug
And only yesterday you were saying that you don't care for American football unless there are orcs. Now repeat after me: "I only care for 2018 E3 if there's new Zelda DLC".
Mind you Bones Jackson got nothing on GIL-9000...
@Shiryu nice, I'll be on this👍👍
I'll give this a shot. I seen a youtuber/streamer play this and it looked fun. I like the spoof of the character names to real players.
@JohnQuixote I'm confused about your comment. I said that I would like a direct translation of Blood Bowl to digital on Switch and that Mutant League is different from it as it is an action game.
I didn't say I wouldn't play it.
@Shiryu Omg... Bones Jackson is one of my favorite Raiders 😂
@SmaggTheSmug
Hey, didn't mean to confuse. I thought you wrote on the Madden NFL thread that you weren't interested in American football unless there were orcs. I thought it was funny that 24-hours later an American football game containing orcs was being discussed in the news. I just wanted to levy your mystical powers to have some other interesting things discussed in the Nintendo news around E3 time.
Hahaha! Sign me up!
@JohnQuixote Ah, sorry, my awesome powers are hampered by my lack of wisdom
LOL, they had way too much fun coming up with all the hilarious gags in that trailer. Even "Skeleton Gaming Monthly" has no idea why their covers are so cluttered!
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