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NFL Blitz Available Now For PS3, Tomorrow For 360 - Post Your Impressions Here

07:25 PM - January 3, 2012 by Fiddy

NFL Blitz is available now, as a digital download on PSN (PS3) and will be available tomorrow morning on the Marketplace (360) for $14.99.

Please post your impressions here.

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# 81 jyoung @ 01/05/12 10:56 PM

Run a play where one of your WRs motions behind the line of scrimmage to counter pushers.

Try the play on the bottom right corner of page 2.

It's my go-to play for teams who push a lot.

# 82 Earl1963 @ 01/05/12 11:34 PM

CJ TD

# 83 Blzer @ 01/05/12 11:42 PM

I gotta say, I love this game, but man, some small issues have really been killing me. Not that I'm mad about them, but they've literally costed me some online games.

I was ranked 106th in the world at one point. Now I'm at a number that is no longer even worth figuring lol.

# 84 Blzer @ 01/05/12 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bcruise


	Good example of the catch-up in the original at 4:50 of this video (and probably others, since it happens on every play)

bcruise, he meant comeback AI, but you have a right to defend the other kind of "catch up" as well.

# 85 bcruise @ 01/06/12 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Blzer


	bcruise, he meant comeback AI, but you have a right to defend the other kind of "catch up" as well.

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Originally Posted by goh


	and Tuck running down Welker with a 15 yard lead aren't my fault.

Weeman read it that way as well - he actually mentioned both kinds of catchup in that post.

# 86 Blzer @ 01/06/12 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bcruise


	Weeman read it that way as well - he actually mentioned both kinds of catchup in that post.

Ah, touch�.

Anyway, I've been burned by both myself, but it's nothing new and nothing to be mad about.

# 87 jyoung @ 01/06/12 01:06 PM

Use the "tournament mode" code to turn off the rubber band AI.

That worked in the old Blitzes. It also disables all other cheat codes.

# 88 jyoung @ 01/06/12 02:01 PM

Yep, all codes are entered at the "tonight's matchup" screen.

You will get that screen regardless of whether you're playing offline or online.

# 89 jyoung @ 01/06/12 03:44 PM

It's refreshing to play a football game where speed isn't the dominant attribute.

I'm having more success with strong guys like Brandon Marshall and Antonio Gates as my receivers than Jacoby Ford, who has the highest speed possible in the game.

# 90 JayBee74 @ 01/06/12 03:55 PM

Anybody been playing this human VS human OFFLINE?

# 91 Haze88 @ 01/06/12 08:20 PM

Just curious but have any you guys ever played the old Blitzes ever? Some of these complaints seem to come from those that are new to the series. Blitz was always fun and fake over realism, and I hope they leave it alone but add LATE HITS! It's a Blitz staple.

# 92 ezio @ 01/06/12 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JayBee74


	Anybody been playing this human VS human OFFLINE?

I have been against my kids. It is fun

# 93 falcons2003 @ 01/06/12 08:45 PM

One super frustrating aspect is the Intercept button which is also mapped as the dive button on defense (Triangle for Ps3). So there is two dive buttons on defense for some odd reason.

I've given up huge completions when I am controlling the DB who is clearly in front of the WR, ball is in the air, I'm going for the sure INT, and I dive instead of going for the catch the ball animation. Really frustrating. Unless I am doing something wrong. This happening to anyone else?

# 94 Fiddy @ 01/06/12 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by wEEman33


	Use the "tournament mode" code to turn off the rubber band AI. That worked in the old Blitzes. It also disables all other cheat codes.

refresh me on what this mode is, im drawing a blank..

# 95 bcruise @ 01/06/12 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by falcons2003


	One super frustrating aspect is the Intercept button which is also mapped as the dive button on defense (Triangle for Ps3). So there is two dive buttons on defense for some odd reason. I've given up huge completions when I am controlling the DB who is clearly in front of the WR, ball is in the air, I'm going for the sure INT, and I dive instead of going for the catch the ball animation. Really frustrating. Unless I am doing something wrong. This happening to anyone else?

Best way to get a leaping interception is to be facing the play before pressing the dive/INT button - if you're turned backwards you'll probably dive. That's not a terribly bad thing anyway, since you can commit blatant pass interference and not get called - diving at the WR and taking him out before the ball gets there is perfectly acceptable in this game.

There's no automatic turnaround/strafe button like in madden though, so you have to turn manually.

Also, yeah, there's two dive buttons, but Triangle/Y is the only button I've been able to do leaping INT's with.

# 96 jyoung @ 01/06/12 10:12 PM

For INTs you can jump straight up by pressing dive without turbo. If you press turbo + dive, you go for a tackle instead.

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Originally Posted by Fiddy


	refresh me on what this mode is, im drawing a blank..

You have to buy the "tournament mode" code from the blitz store before you can enter it on the tonight's matchup screen.

It just disables all other codes and removes the game's rubberband AI.

# 97 falcons2003 @ 01/06/12 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by wEEman33


	For INTs you can jump straight up by pressing dive without turbo. If you press turbo + dive, you go for a tackle instead.

Yep, I do this with no turbo. Even more so I've been testing it out with safe zone. I chose the middle safety that is back roaming. I get a good read on the play, I'm right in front, facing the QB, no turbo, and I hit the triangle,,,and dive almost every time, if not every time...lol. Once or twice I get it to work, but I'm sure it was just random.

Really no reason what so ever that needed to map the triangle button to make it dive, when there is already another dive button. Really why would they do something like this?

# 98 Sandman42 @ 01/07/12 02:01 AM

Seems like all anyone runs online is plays out of the trips formation. Usually Da Bomb, and if there is no one of the left side of the line they just take off an run with the QB. Funny when I stop them after a drive or 2 and they don't know what to do.

# 99 jyoung @ 01/07/12 02:24 AM

Da Bomb is incredibly easy to stop:

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	1) Run the flipped version of 1-man blitz to the weak side of the formation. 2) Shove all the receivers to the ground at the snap since they're lined up in a nifty row. 3) ????? 4) Profit.

Best offensive play in the game IMO is Uppercut. Very versatile play that gives you a running option, an intermediate post route and a deep streak route.

Most of the game I just mix up Uppercut and Hail Mary since they're out of the same formation and can't be distinguished from each other until the snap.

X-Cross is also good for QB sneaks and short-yardage situations.

# 100 jyoung @ 01/07/12 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by falcons2003


	Really no reason what so ever that needed to map the triangle button to make it dive, when there is already another dive button. Really why would they do something like this?

It's because the control scheme is based on the old arcade game that had only 1 joystick and 3 buttons:

I'm just glad they gave us an actual spin button now (B button). In the old days, you had to double-tap turbo, which was unreliable.

The new juke move they added to this game (on the bumpers) seems totally worthless. I can't get it to work at all.

I just revert to trying to juke people using the left joystick. Seems much more effective to me, but maybe that's just a result of my experience with the old game and inexperience with this new juke button.

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