''Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed'' is a sports video game developed and published by Midway for the

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. It was released in

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on May 18, 2000. It is of note that it would not be until 2006 before another

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video game would be released. It is based around the fame of

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quarterback Kurt Warner, a former AFL player for the

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who later went on to star in the

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Gameplay

''Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed'' differs from other

video games due to its usage of the arena football system. A few rule changes include that there are half as many players on the field,

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go back into play if they miss the goalposts, and there's no such thing as punting.Gerstmann, Jeff (June 6, 2000)
Kurt Warner's Arena Football Review
Retrieved on February 12, 2008. The game is compared to ''

NFL Blitz 2000 ''NFL Blitz 2000'' is a video game released in the arcades in 1999 and then ported to the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Color. It is the third game in the ''NFL Blitz'' series. Development The game was anno ...

'' for its violence controls, modes, and general game structure, with one reviewer even noted that "The post-play violence has been pumped up to the level that ''Blitz'' had before the NFL forced Midway to tone it down." Unlike NFL Blitz it takes 20 yards to get a first down instead of 30, though this can be changed to 10 or 30 yards in the options menu.

Reception

''Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed'' received mostly poor reviews, portraying it as being a weaker version of ''NFL Blitz 2000''.

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criticized the game and gave it a low score. "It's a scaled-down version of Blitz 2000 with a few changes, but these changes don't really enhance the game in any way."

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wrote, "... the actual game engine seems more like a poor man's Blitz."

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