Madden NFL 2002

#1 for a reason! Return to glory: Relive the golden days of 16-bit Madden gameplay in Madden Classic mode. Kick off the season with the newest NFL team: Take the field with all 32 NFL teams including the expansion Houston Texans. A game within a game: Run or defend an improved 2-Minute Drill, now featuring Head-To-Head Challenge. Bang-Boom-Pow: Perfect the X's and O's with the help of John Madden in Training mode.

Released: 12 September 2001
Platforms: Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color GameCube Nintendo 64 PlayStation PlayStation 2 Windows Xbox
Genres: American football Sports
Developers: EA Orlando
Publishers: EA Sports
Series: Madden NFL
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Non-fiction
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E
Languages: English

About

Madden NFL 2002 (also known as Madden 2002) is an American football video game. It features former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper on the cover. Pat Summerall and John Madden are the commentators. The Madden NFL 2002 commercial first aired during Super Bowl XXXVI, three days after Madden NFL 2002 started selling in Japan.

Notably, it does not feature the Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady, who is included on later editions of the game as a roster update. It is also the first game to be developed by Budcat Creations.

Keywords

american football

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "universal acclaim", and the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PC version received "mixed or average reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. NextGen said of the Xbox version in its final issue, "Slightly better than last year's (or even this year's) excellent PS2 version, it's hard to find much fault with this outstanding effort." In Japan, Famitsu gave the PS2 version a score of 33 out of 40.

5 out of 10, saying, "This is probably the most beautiful display of 3-D graphics you will find in any sports game to date. This is of course if your PC has a lot under the hood, especially a good video card." Louis Bedigian gave the Xbox version 9 out of 10, saying, "Control and sound issues aside, this is the best version of Madden 2002 available." 9 out of 10, saying that it was "Harder to control than it should be.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
PlayStation 2	20 August 2001	North America · Europe 12 October 2001
Windows	21 August 2001	North America · Europe 21 September 2001
Xbox	31 October 2001	Worldwide
GameCube	18 November 2001	North America