Madden NFL 97 includes the 30 teams of the 1996 NFL season, the 1996 All-Madden team plus 68 classic teams from NFL history. Playing modes include Exhibition, Season and Tournament. All scheduled games during a season can be either played or simulated. The tournament is for either 8 or 16 players in single elimination mode. The game also includes the 30 team's home stadiums plus one extra arena in Hawaii.

Many features introduced in previous titles are reused here: variable weather (including night games), injuries and substitutions, ten different penalties (all adjustable), two skill levels, a bluffing mode for play calling, color commentary by John Madden, instant replays, and team roster editing with player creation (stats are set from a point pool), trading, releasing and signing of free agents. Player records and season progress can be saved to memory card/backup RAM. A new feature is the possibility to change which team is controlled at any time during a game.

During a game, the stadiums are rendered in polygonal texture-mapped 3D, with only the players, referees and ball as bitmaps. The game allows to choose from eight different camera perspectives, including views from the end zones and sidelines, a diagonal view and a "classic cam" emulating the perspective of earlier titles in the series on Genesis and SNES.

Source.

Platform

PC

Developer(s)

EA Tiburon

Publishers(s)

EA Sports

Genres(s)

Sports

NA Release Date

August 31, 1996

EU Release Date

January 1, 1996

ESRB Rating

Everyone

MVGL User Score

-

MVGL Difficulty

1.0000

Composer(s)

Joel Simmons, Jim Simmons

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This game also exists on:
Nintendo Super NES Nintendo Gameboy Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Sega Saturn PlayStation 1

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