Posted 21 Jun 2025 at 22:25 by **Dean Jones**
Another yearly American Football release for Midway, and more frantic arcade action. This seems even faster than before, to the point where it seems there’s really no time to react to formulate a plan, so it seems like touchdowns are quite a rarity.
One new addition is the create-a-player, lifted completely from the NBA Jam/Hangtime/Showtime games, which lets you make a character to swap a single player on the pitch for a match. It has some fun designs, but they just get lost in the chaos.
**Fine**
> In the end, NFL Blitz 2003 is a great game that fixes a lot of the little problems with the 2002 game and adds a couple of nice features. There’s nothing seriously wrong with this year’s game, but it’s also coming just under six months after the last installment of the game with a relatively small number of changes. It’s a great game and definitely worth purchasing if you didn’t already buy Blitz 2002, but Blitz 2002 owners may wish to rent this one first to see if the changes are meaningful enough to them to warrant another purchase.
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> Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot
**Remake or remaster?**
Arcade sports games do need to return.
**Official Ways to get the game**
There is no official way to get NFL Blitz 2003.