10 Most Brilliantly OTT Sports Video Games Of All Time

8. Blitz: The League II

When it hit shelves, this wonderful game did not get the credit it so rightfully deserved. A gritty take on the Blitz series and an even grittier take on football. Midway lost out on its rights to use NFL teams via the exclusive deal EA made with the NFL. That's what made this game so good: it allowed Midway to go where they hadn't before and made this the first game in the series to receive an M rating. And boy did the rating show: during the game you could target certain players or specific limbs and even beat down players after the whistle to injure them. For balance though, you could also choose to throw some steroids into a player to make them come out to play faster. Basically, anything went. Atypically for a sports game, the campaign of this game is what really stood out: you'd be tasked with creating a team that would enter "The League" at Division 3 and work your way up to Division 1. The road was full of corruption, drugs and foul play, but that was precisely the fun of it. You could choose to take your team the clean way and not juice any one up, just build them naturally - or you could juice the hell out of them and create a team of animals. It was the freedom to do things that other football games had never given you the freedom to do that was appealing.