Metacritic Games

Madden NFL 2002 (GameCube)

The most realistic-looking player faces and bodies provide the best on-field action. Create your own team and stadium and pit them against real NFL squads and players. The new Two-Minute Drill lets you earn points for Madden Cards. Training Mode helps you to hone your skills with help from Madden himself. [EA Sports]

EA Sports
Sports
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Electronic Arts - Tiburon
Released November 18, 2001

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

89 / 100

Critic Reviews

100	Hot Games But what really takes Madden forward are the great extras, which this year include a Two-Minute Drill mini-game, create-a-player, -team, or –league modes, Coach’s Challenge, and more.
100	G4 TV Madden NFL 2002 not only plays an incredibly deep and solid game of football, but it showcases the system's versatility for handling a fast-paced sports simulation.
98	Nintendojo Its game play is just sick and that’s combined with some fine graphics and awesome off field depth.
91	Armchair Empire Graphically, it is a step above the PS2 as there is less flicker in the background and less aliasing in general. It is missing the graphical improvements given the Xbox version, however.
90	Nintendo Power It's so comfortable! When I fire up the PS2 version, I find myself wishing there was a way to connect the GCN Controller. [Nov 2001, p.141]
90	Game Informer But believe it or not, I had a problem with GC’s controller. [Feb 2002, p.87]
89	GameZone Harder to control than it should be. I love both the Xbox and GC controllers (a rarity, since most gamers like one, but hate the other), but Madden was not developed for either of them.
88	Electronic Gaming Monthly It takes sound football strategy and patience to be successful, so when you finally beat the game on All-Pro mode, you know you’ve accomplished something big. [Feb 2002, p.164]
87	IGN A port of the already-released PlayStation 2 game, but for once it's an improved version at that.
86	GameSpot As great a game of football as nearly any fan of the series could hope for, and while it focuses on technical and simulation elements a bit more than the other games on the market, the game stays true to the Madden name.
80	Cloudchaser The worst thing about this game is that saving a season fills up every last inch of space on the ill-named Memory Card 59.
75	Gaming Age If you have the PS2 version of the game, it may not be money well spent trying to gain some visual improvements at the cost of some game speed and a more convoluted control scheme.