NFL Football for SNES

Review #372

NFL Football

Konami's folly

SNES 1993 Konami Sports Sports › Football
NFL Football screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
0 / 5

Gameplay

Must wait for the computer to pick a play. why?
5 FPS no joke
Insta tackle when you get anywhere near opponents
Passing game is atrocious. Hike ball and screen zooms out wide. Disorienting since frame rate is so bad. Throw but pressing and holding the button but sometimes it doesn't throw at all. Barely any time so sacks are common.
Impossible to catch the ball. The camera switches from side view to downfield view with ball coming toward you and you have to turn around to catch it. I think? I could only catch maybe one on ten throws.

1 / 5

Level Design

Exhibition and season
Play selection is easy

3 / 5

Theme

NFL license
The play by play is cool and can be turned off

0 / 5

Art Style

Utterly disgusting.
Player models are ok but very pixelated. They are tall compared to something like Madden, but they look horrible in motion. Actually there framerate is so poor that I wouldn't even call it motion.
Even the field itself is a pixelated mess.
The camera's constant zooming and rotation is disorienting and highlights the poor graphics

2 / 5

Audio

The Konami logo intro is one of the iconic audio experiences of the 16 bit era. Like the 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm logos from the 80s. It's awful to hear it in games like this which were outsourced. It sounds like crap here which is an indicator of what is to come.
A constant voice over on every play is novel. I'll bet this ate up so many resources that the FPS and gameplay were sacrificed.

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