SNES Game Review: John Madden Football 93

 John Madden Football 93 is the second game of the Madden legacy to hit the shelves on the SNES.  Side note to all of this, if you play these games on the Genesis, they look a lot better than those on the Super Nintendo.  I think if EA went with Blue Sky for the SNES as they did for the Genesis, it would be a lot better done. Anyway, what does EA do well here for the SNES version of the game? What does it lack? Also note, this will be mainly in comparison to John Madden Football, a game I will review tomorrow.

Positives:

1. Improved graphics: You can tell I am going to be searching a bit but the graphics are improved from John Madden Football.  Overall the graphics department did a much better job than the original game and if only they could have set the standard going forward, this might have been a good SNES series.

2. Started to get the feel of it: You started to gain some picture to what Madden was going to be on SNES, which helped paint a picture more than anything.  Like I said they were much better on the Genesis but since this is a SNES review, oofda. 

Negatives:

1. Frame rate: Yeah this is so choppy on the SNES version of this game. You almost immediately as you play get the feeling of a choppy game and it doesn't help at all going forward with anything.  The Genesis version is so much more smooth than the Super Nintendo.

2. No NFL or NFLPA licenses: Yep, you read that right.  Neither the NFL nor NFLPA had the licenses for this game, and you are just stuck with generic, albeit very much the same, looks for teams like Dallas, Buffalo, etc.  I believe they named New York teams as New Jersey if I recall right but I would have to double check that.  

3. Punting/Kicking camera: It is a sudden movement and almost seemingly glitchy movement from punting side to receiving side.  No transition, no anything so it makes it really really rough to stomach why EA was not very good with this. 

4. They badly needed a new developer: Make it like Blue Sky for the Genesis, who actually made this version honestly very much decent and if I rated the Genesis version it would rate highly for this game.  However, EA went it alone on the SNES version and it.. really doesn't work here at all.

5. Slow: That's right the game on the SNES is slow.  Just painfully slow.  Again in comparison to the Genesis version of this game, it is just massively slow and a massive letdown to be honest.  I wish that wasn't the case and I wish EA had the foresight of putting Blue Sky on for the SNES version of this game as well.

Overall Rating/Rank

Yes I have been critical of this game for the SNES, but I have been critical of Madden on the SNES.  That is because EA had so much at their disposal to make a game good for themselves but didn't.  Really their best series was the NHL series,  and it shows badly.  However for the SNES with Madden I can't get it more than 4 out of 10 and an overall rank of 430th out of the SNES games.