Description:
Madden 96 was being developed by
Visual Concepts, famous for many of Sega's sports games.
Electronic Arts decided to scrap the project leaving the only
football game on the PlayStation being Sony's NFL GameDay.
There were many rumors about why EA didn't release Madden 96.
One rumor was that Sony wouldn't give approval to release it so
that NFL GameDay (a Sony release) would be the only one on the
market. This is untrue.
The truth of the matter is that
Madden 96 failed EA's quality assurances tests and would not
have been polished enough and finished in an appropriate
timeframe. The game is plagued with long loading times
between play calls, however Visual Concepts was working to
correct this. The sprites used in the game were quite big,
but frames of animation were lacking, an indication of the
developer's steep learning curve to programming on the
PlayStation. The graphics are colorful, yet pale in
comparison to NFL Gameday or even 3DO's Madden NFL. In the
end, EA decided to not to release Visual Concept's Madden 96
because of the quality. Insiders say that EA was so
disgusted with the results that they teamed up
with Tiburon Studios to develop Madden 97 through 2005.
Was this a smart move on EA's part? Visual Concepts happen
to be the developers of the 2K sports series including the ESPN
NFL 2K series on Xbox which many believed to be as good if not
better than Madden.
If
you are able to obtain more information about this game, please
contact the PlayStation Museum. |
