REVIEW: Tecmo Super Bowl 3: The Final Edition 199? SNES
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Tecmo Super Bowl 3: The Final Edition is a great sports game for the Super Nintendo. TSB could possibly be the best football game on the SNES. What makes this game better than the Madden series is the incredible playability and the great statistic engine used in the game. This series also paved the road for what most sports games calls a "Dynasty" feature. A Dynasty feature is more or less a feature that lets you play multiple seasons. They let you create a dynasty. Though, this was not the first TSB game to use the "Dynasty" or multiple season feature it was one of the pioneer games to do this.

The graphics are not impressive at all, but is made up in playability. This game also allows you to create your own playbook, players, and trade players. Creating your own player is very interesting. When you create your own player, your player can get better pending on how that specific player does. For example, if you created a quarter back and you throw for 4 TD's and 500 yards, you can expect your player to improve. You can also pick up free agents through a point system coordinated with a players attributes. So, if a player is good overall they will have alot of free agency points. At the end of each season there are some individual awards and an All-Pro Offensive and Defensive Team. Little things like this make this game a classic.

The game itself is very fun. The game can become very easy at times depending on what difficulty level you are playing on. I have played many games in which I have won games in excess of over 100 points. It is very fun to run up the score, though it does get old. The stats are almost enough motivation to set the game on an easy level and just dominate every individual and team statistical categories (except maybe punting).

TSB is also filled with many annoying bugs. Interceptions are as often as a rainfall in the Sahara. And a two minute drill is almost impossible because of the incredibly beserk clock. Unless you run out of bounds or call a timeout, the time between plays can take almost twenty seconds off the clock. The trading system is also weird. Some players can almost always be traded for a player that is above in talent than another. There are a couple of players in the game that are just outright terrible, and can be traded for the best players at their position.

I love this game because of the great stat engine and all the cool features that this game has. There is also a code that if you go three straight years without losing and win the Super Bowl in each of those years a whole bunch of Hall of Fame players are available in the free agent pool.

If you want a really cool sports game on the SNES for under $10, that will please you in the long run, you should consider Tecmo Super Bowl 3. - Tim Martin 84%

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