Welcome to Madden NFL 97, the game that captures the excitement of a 30 yard touchdown pass, the strategy of a well executed scoring drive, and the atmosphere of a crisp autumn afternoon in the stadium. Madden NFL 97 delivers state of the art graphics and sound -- and with modem and network support, it's ready to put your competitive skills to the test.
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This game seems better than before but it lost its special charm. They go in the wrong direction every title.
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They definitely learned their lesson from Madden NFL 96 - this just does every single thing better in a way that seems to want to publicly rectify that previous shortcoming (except the passing, which I swear is an insurmountable feat here). The graphics are tremendous for their day, in particular the snowy games - shown here with an honestly pretty beautiful visual flair. And also, you know, the thing's code doesn't shit itself every three or four minutes like that other one does. But with all that praise being sung, there's still just too much jank here overall to justify a passing grade. Not to mention - more importantly - that I have almost the exact same attitude towards these that I do with those online live service games - where a couple matches consecutively are fun but anything after that becomes wicked boring.
They definitely learned their lesson from Madden NFL 96 - this just does every single thing better in a way that seems to want to publicly rectify that previous shortcoming (except the passing, which I swear is an insurmountable feat here). The graphics are tremendous for their day, in particular the snowy games - shown here with an honestly pretty beautiful visual flair. And also, you know, the thing's code doesn't shit itself every three or four minutes like that other one does. But with all that praise being sung, there's still just too much jank here overall to justify a passing grade. Not to mention - more importantly - that I have almost the exact same attitude towards these that I do with those online live service games - where a couple matches consecutively are fun but anything after that becomes wicked boring.
Random Sega game.