Though it seems to be a barren wasteland of recycled content, sports games are ocasionally great. I’ve always been drawn to the NHL games (specifically 17 in recent memory).
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Blades of Steel for the NES, I think that might be the only sports game I’ve ever actually played though.
No I also played Nintendo World Cup, which is a hilarious soccer game where you can manage to charge up your shots to the point where it will kill a player. There’s also a dive move you can use which, if you chain it, makes your players look like frogs jumping across the field. This was hugely amusing to me at the time.
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Does Rocket Leauge count? That’s technically Soccer…right?
If not. My second choice (because it’s the only one I own) has to be “BackBreaker” a American football game on Xbox 360, even though I never played it “right” it was still pretty fun, for the short amount of time I was interested in it.
I also played the demo of fifa, which was pretty cool but it was a demo so I don’t count it.
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Blood Bowl.
Does that count?
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Well, I really enjoyed the Need for Speed Series as well Burnout but those are not exactly sports. I also liked Gran Turismo and Ford GT Supercar (or something like that) wich were more in line with regular race games.
Other than that, ATVX I think it was called was a game about races in the dirt, with motorbikes and such, jumping and so on. Same thing with Fifa Street wich had a catchy soundtrack.
For any other kind of sport and also football, I was always drawn to “just play them”. I always liked the fantasy I can’t achieve in my daily routine, that’s the reason cooking games for me have no point at all.
I guess the exceptions to that rule is shooting wich I do in real life from time to time and football wich I used to play a lot (to be clear, I used to play a ton of real football, not videogames, just a little bit of Fifa Street), but I don’t like killing things so, target practice is as different as how you shoot a real weapon and a videogame one to begin with. I used to practice quite a lot with a rifle and a bow.
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Does bowling count as sport? If so my favourite bowling game is GTA IV 
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Mostly Golf and Fishing. Wii Sports Resort is my favourite sports game ever. I’ve also played a lot of Anna Kournikova’s Smash Court Tennis.
If we count motorsports: WRC FIA World Rally Championship, Colin McRae Rally 2.0 and Mario Kart 8.
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Oh that’s easy!
Man sports games were so good in the early 00’s.
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It’s up there! Fishing games are always dope.
But more so than that I love all impossibly extreme sports games. Give me something like another Tony Hawk’s Underground please. 
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SSX Tricky and 3 have no competition. I badly want an Xbox One myself, and that game is a huge reason why I’m interested.
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wii sports and wii sports resort all the way
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I tried the tennis one once and was pretty neat.
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Hands down, my favorite sports game is…
…Batting Center (Baseball), Bowling, Catfights AHEM, Darts, Disco (Dancing), Fishing, Pocket Circuit (Racing), and Pool. Plus a wide variety of other entertainment venues, all in one game, ONE game! Not to mention the fact that it has one of the greatest video game opening songs, ever.
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can i say rocket league here?
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