Metacritic Games

Backyard Football (GameCube)

Backyard Football teams up with the NFL to bring kid versions of the best tackling, deepest passing and fastest running Pros. Choose from all 32 NFL teams or create your own with custom team names and uniforms. Pick a playing field, call the plays and direct all the action in single games or an entire season's worth of hard-hitting action. It's the chance of a lifetime to play with the pros right in your own backyard! [Infogrames]

Infogrames
Sports
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Left Field Productions / Humongous Entertainment
Released October 8, 2002

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

58 / 100

Critic Reviews

72 Nintendo Power
The peppy game exudes plenty of personality, and young fans will love the smart game play. [Sept 2002, p.163]
69 GameZone
Granted, some of the three-dimensional effects are very nice, but at times, the game looks like a title in the Lego series, and not the carefree, cartoonish game that has become so enjoyable.
67 Gaming Age
Fun for a goof for adults, and a kid will eat this up.
48 Gamezilla!
Although Backyard Football may work for a seven-year-old, few others would get much enjoyment from it. Lacking serious refinement in most areas, the “cute” style of gameplay wears off quickly and leaves few reasons to come back.
45 IGN
The neat-o character design doesn't make up for the blah textures and overly simple (to the point of boring) gameplay.