For fans, fall
means one thing

It’s time to try this year’s best
football video games

Each year about this time the entire world as it is known is transformed.
People everywhere transcend the crumbling ceilings that had held them down for nearly a year and take a bold new step onto a higher plane of existence.
These people become better human beings by purchasing the latest of released video football games, providing themselves with the freedoms and choices that were previously unavailable.
This fall, four 2003 versions of NFL video games arrived on Xbox, Playstation 2, and PC. The world will never be the same.
Buying the latest line of football titles may make one’s life better, and it may immeasurably improve the futures of one’s children, but many still fall prey to the single dumbest mistake in video football game history — buying more than one title in the same year.
These games provide the same thing. They are football simulators that allow you to manipulate the NFL season into what you want it to be, whether that entails the closest attention to realism or the furthest reaching fantasy (like Dallas in the Super Bowl). Owning more than one is a waste of money, punishable by ridicule from friends and family for decades.
The dilemma is inevitable — which game should you buy when the number of available titles continues to grow?
To help SUU students, all of whom need the nourishment and life-altering entertainment of a new football game, but none of whom can afford more than one game, the Journal staff decided to help students to decide which game to buy.
This is without a doubt the most important purchase a college student could make, and the responsibility of providing insight into the pros and cons of each title cannot be taken lightly.
That is why the University Journal sports staff has sacrificed hours in intensive research, testing every possible scenario and coming to rock-solid conclusions about each of four titles: Madden 2003, by EA Sports, NFL GameDay 2003 by 989, NFL 2K3 by Sega and NFL Fever 2003 by Microsoft.
Below and on page 12 are extensive reviews of each title. They are as objective as sportswriters could make them and were written only after spending an insane amount of time playing each game.
For SUU students with few or no sources of income and for the good of mankind, here is a review of each game.