Madden NFL 2001: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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Product Description

Football is back with the all-new Madden NFL 2001! This hotly anticipated game offers all of the excitement of real-life football with all the juke moves, monster hits, and sideline grabs. The game features unique moves and all new motion-captured hits—and you control all the action! Dynamic commentary from John Madden and the expanded Franchise mode guarantee that this will be the sports title of the year. With Madden NFL 2001: Prima's Official Strategy Guide you'll get offensive and defensive strategies, complete team playbooks, and much more! The guide also includes:

Complete coverage of all 31 regular season teams including:

Scouting reports with team ratings
Best offensive and defensive plays
Easy reference playbook tables

Offensive and defensive tutorials providing the on-field awareness you need to beat even the best opponents
Franchise management strategies, including trading, free agency, and drafting
Tips on how to design offensive and defensive game plans
Tips on winning with the 2-Minute Offense
Quick-look reference tables for team and player ratings

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games; illustrated edition edition (August 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761529764
• ISBN-13: 978-0761529767
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,540,577 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of a few good trees, November 7, 2000

By	Daniel B. Norton (Naperville, IL United States) - See all my reviews

I had purchased the book with the anticipation of Prima's supreme insight. What I got was an outdated version of Football for dummies. The Nintendo64 and PSone info may be accurate, yet not for the PS2 version. If the editors of the book would have tried to play the PS2 version before they did their job maybe they would realize that half of the stupid checklist (PS2 version) in the back of the book is incorrect, and that is just the beginning of the errors. The rosters save people from cycling through them in the menu system of the game, half the playbooks are incorrect to a degree in the PS2 game. An example is the halfback pass in Vince Tobin's playbook, which on the PS2 version does not exist. The strategy is pretty useful, assuming that you have lived under a rock and recently discovered the sport of football. The team by team breakdown is somewhat useful if you want a glorified NFL picture book, which also makes it easy to read. I have read parts of the Everquest: Ruins of Kunark strategy guide by Prima and found it amazing. I was dissapointed to see that the information involving the PS2 version of Madden NFL 2001 was not completely accurate. The book should have not made any mention of the PS2 if so much of its content did not pertain to the Playstation2 version. The game is awesome. Instant recommendation. The guide however, I will only recommend if you do not own the PS2 version, unleess they update it now that the game has been released.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars They should pay YOU to buy it., October 8, 2000

By	Scott Kallen (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This is the poorest excuse for a strategy guide I have ever seen. I hardly discusses strategy at all -- it gives the shallowest of descriptions and doesn't discuss the pieces of the game that are the most critical -- switching to Bump and Run and a myriad of other advanced options.

I read the manual to learn the basics. I bought this thinking it would go more in-depth. Truly pathetic. Additionally, the screen shots are confusing or wrong and come from Madden 2000, not 2001!

If you're looking for insight into Madden 2001, look elsewhere. This is a definite Loser of a guide. If I could give this 0 or less Stars, I would--but the system won't allow it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Madden2001, September 8, 2000

By	Chris Euler (Centerport, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This is a pretty good strategy guide, but i don't think that it is necessary to play the game. It's mostly just rosters and players, and is good to buy if you are a real madden fanatic. The game is totally awesome this year, but the guide isn't a must.