Madden NFL 2002

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90

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7.6

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  • Summary: Madden NFL™ 2002 delivers unparalleled heart-felt emotion and hard-hitting NFL action. Taking you beyond broadcast, and on to the field, Madden NFL 2002 puts the NFL at your fingertips in Exhibition, Season, Playoff, Two-Minute Drill, Tournament or Franchise mode. Completely remodeledMadden NFL™ 2002 delivers unparalleled heart-felt emotion and hard-hitting NFL action. Taking you beyond broadcast, and on to the field, Madden NFL 2002 puts the NFL at your fingertips in Exhibition, Season, Playoff, Two-Minute Drill, Tournament or Franchise mode. Completely remodeled player models and facial textures put life in the helmets. From the pre-game introductions with players getting hype in front of the cameras, to one of the 31 Officially licensed members of the NFL Coaches Club displaying disgust after an unexecuted play, Madden NFL 2002 is an emotional roller coaster of dramatic gameplay filled with the passionate imagery of the NFL.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Hot Games
    100
    The extensive Franchise Mode (which includes this year’s Houston Texans) is the best in any football game ever, and the Madden Cards once again hype the game’s replayability.
  2. Next Generation Magazine
    100
    Simply a further refinement of last year’s excellent PS2 effort. [Jan 2002, p.36]
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  3. Game Informer
    95
    Forget about hating the controller and you'll light 'em up. [Nov 2001, p.121]
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  4. GameSpy
    90
    Simply the best action football game available for any system.
  5. IGN
    86
    A solid football game, but there's no hiding from the fact that it wasn't specifically built to take advantage of the Xbox's capabilities. Because of this, I can't shake the feeling that this game isn't all that it could've been.
  6. Operation Sports
    85
    What's missing is fun, while Madden plays the closest representation of football (still a ways to go), it needs to interject the passion of the NFL into the game.
  7. GameShark
    65
    [It] blow chunks. It's bland, it's repetitive, it's looked the same since it went to PS2 the first time around.

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#2 Best Xbox Game of 2001