If it's in the game, it's in the guide!

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

I had to judge for myself after reading the reviews and needing a guide for Madden 2001. This guide is total garbage. It showed me nothing I didn't figure out on my own before I got the guide and gave me no insights on franchise play, drafting, or even playing the game. Even as a replacement for a lost game manual it would be worthless. This is the worst purchase of a Prima product I have ever made. My money would have been better spent being burned. The guide is a glorified sales manual for Madden 2001. I'll see the next prima guide before I buy it. If I buy one of their's again.

I ordered this guide in direct contrast to the reviews listed here. I usually only purchase books that have at least 4 or more stars. I think some of the reviews were a little unfair, although apparently the reviewer's expectations were not met.

I ordered the guide mainly for the plays being spelled out. I just received my guide, and I have to say that it delivers what it says it will deliver above. I must admit that it falls short of the things that the other Prima guides provide. The other Prima guides provide strategies and maps to win in arcade type games. Madden is designed to be as realistic-as-possible, thus any tips won't work all the time. I tried the tips from gamesfaq.com, and the situation has to be right for them to work all the time. With this in mind, the tips in the guide are fine.

Overall, I think that it is a good general guide. I recommend using it with the tips from gamesfaq.com. Keep in mind that any tips depend on your knowledge of the game and the situation. I think that this is what makes Madden a great simulator. I don't know ..., but I am satisfied with it.

Don't waste your money go to gamefaqs.com for free stategy guides and cheats

Was really disappointed with this. The embedded graphics were lousy and the book just didn't give any strategies or help. So much for Prima's Guides

I never would have bought this if I had seen in in the store. It does nothing well. It doesn't even explain how to read the play diagrams when you call plays. It has no opinion on controllers or how to use them. The advice for running a franchise or creating a gameplan consists of one vanilla paragraph.

Sad to see it associated with such a great game.