Visuals are a close port of the PS2 version, with the exception of some lower quality textures and more jaggies, NFL Street 2 looks absolutely fantastic. Moving at a wonderful frame rate, your players will spin, juke, jump off walls, make crushing tackles, and even taunt their little hearts out just as they do on it's PS2 big brother. There are plenty of environments to make your way in, and even the NFL player's faces and likenesses are here, if not over the top for the game's art design. Thankfully, one of the few things I don't like about the series is the cut scenes of players talking trash. Sure they were entertaining one or two times through, but you would end up just button skipping through them anyway. It's nice to know I can save that time here. One side note I should address is that the load times are pretty bad, especially when booting up the first time. Once you are in game they don't hamper or slow the pace down, but getting from menu to game and back again can grind to a halt. Overall, EA managed to squeeze NFL Street 2 over to the PSP with little translation losses in the visual department.

Audio isn't as impressive. You get a handful of pocket Trax, some hits, grunts, and groans, and that is about it. It is almost a double edge sword as I hate the trash talking, but all seems quite on the western front if it's omitted. Since the game never had much in the way of commentary, Xzibit's voice for me, is not missed in the slightest.

Game play ports over quite nicely, even if the PSP is a one analog stick system. Missing here is the ability to easily pull off jukes, special moves, etc with just the flick of the right analog stick, but the control scheme for the PSP is adequate enough to become familiar with the game's move sets soon enough. The A.I. is just as brutal as on the home systems, and the fact you must learn some controls over again, the learning curve and success ratio may be lower when you begin, even for vets of the game. EA managed to pull off all the crazy combos, jumps and other moves quite well using the PSP's controls.

NFL Street 2 is one of the deeper sports titles on the PSP. Just because it was stripped down to a handheld, does not mean that features and depth have been sacrificed. You have quick games, online play, Taking the Streets Career mode, and some Party Play mini games for one PSP or online play. When you play the career mode, you get to create yourself, from attributes, likeness, and much more. You then choose your teammates before each game, and once you win games you can acquire players for your permanent team. The online play is as good as your LAN base can handle. The lobby finds your opponent and you choose whether to play a full game or mini challenges. Unfortunately, tourneys and such are not here for this version, but a solid attempt nonetheless. Added to the PSP version is NFL Throwback All Star Teams! You can play as some greats on the teams that made them great, like Jerry Rice on the 49'ers! Want more legends? You got them including Mean Joe Greene, Randall Cunningham, Sterling Sharpe, and even Bo Jackson. This wraps up quite the large feast for such a little disc.

In the end, if you love the NFL Street series on the home consoles and you own a PSP, there is no reason why you should not add this to your current library. If anything, it will curb your football fix until August when the mighty Madden hits.