SNES Game Review: Madden NFL 94

 Madden NFL 94 is another Madden game that was on the Super Nintendo for the 1993 season.  However much like John Madden Football 93 and that games predecessor, John Madden Football, it has a lot of flaws.  As you can already tell I have gone through most of the sports gaming library on the SNES by now so I can tell you a lot of the in's and outs of these games, but nearly all the SNES games on Madden I cannot recommend.  Alas, here si what they did well and not well.

Positive:

1. More fluid gameplay: The gameplay is more fluid than its predecessors and less choppy which are good things for the franchise as it moved forward in the Super Nintendo era.  

2. Music: Honestly pretty good pre-FOX days of having that music instituted in the gameplay as well.  I quite enjoyed the menu music and the presenting music for the game. 

3. NFL License: So all the teams are represented and not just random names without the Bills, Cowboys, 49ers, Packers, etc.  So they did well to advance from generic terms to actual names.

Negatives:

1. NFLPA License: Unless you are an arcade game tbh you will not be given this reprieve of not having the NFL license on the game.  This si something Madden sorely lacked and thankfully got good with Madden NFL 95.  Had it gone on longer, this franchise might have been history.

2. Graphics: Yeah they are honestly choppy.  Blurry is a good word too but they just in all honesty are not very good overall.

3. Season: It is just a hodgepodge.  It isn't accurate to the 1993 season (See what Tecmo Super Bowl was) and overall just makes it a lousy way of going about with the game. 

Overall Rating/Rank:

This game is not a real good rendition of what Madden should have been and really just only modestly improved from the first two versions of this game.  I felt really let down playing Madden NFL 94 and thankfully Madden 95 was better.  As a rating, 5 out of 10 works, around 390th for a rank overall.