Madden NFL 2002 (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

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…

50 20 August 2001

What Madden NFL 2002 is

Madden NFL 2002 is a sport game developed by EA Orlando and released in 2001. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

#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.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Madden series

Madden NFL 2002 is the 28th of 122 entries we hold in the Madden series. The next entry was Madden NFL 2002 in 2001. Its critic score of 50 is 25 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Madden NFL 11 at 86.

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How it was received

Madden NFL 2002 holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Madden NFL 2002 launched on 20 August 2001, within three weeks of Advance Wars, Devil May Cry, Golden Sun and Wario Land 4. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Advance Wars, Devil May Cry, Golden Sun, Wario Land 4.

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