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Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

Speedball is a futuristic football-like game which takes place on a steel walled floored pitch, 160 feet long by 90 feet wide. There are two teams, and the team scoring the most goals wins. There is a goal at…

75 1 November 1990

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe is a sport developed by The Bitmap Brothers, released 1 November 1990 on Game Boy Advance, Amiga CD32, Game Boy and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

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What Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe is

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe is a sport game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and released in 1990. It was published by Amiga. It is available on Game Boy Advance, Amiga CD32, Game Boy, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System/Mark III, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, BlackBerry OS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Legacy Mobile Device. It runs on Symbian.

The premise, in the publisher's words

According to the game's story, the first Speedball league (founded in 2095) fails due to violence and corruption. As the organisation gives place to anarchy the game is forced underground, but five years later, in an attempt to regain public interest, Speedball 2 is born. The game starts in 2105 with the emergence of a new team, Brutal Deluxe.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1990 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe launched on 1 November 1990, within three weeks of Super Mario World, F-Zero, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Review: Jashin Fukkatsu. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Super Mario World, F-Zero, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.

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When did Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe come out?
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe was released on 1 November 1990 for Game Boy Advance, Amiga CD32, Game Boy, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System/Mark III, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, BlackBerry OS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Legacy Mobile Device.

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