It's not about bringing up the other game so much as it is quite obvious from the review overall that he's a 2K fan and an EA *****. One would have to be naive or just plain stupid to not recognize that from his post.
Sarcastically speaking----And it is painfully obvious from your post that you are either a hopeless EA Fanboy, have a crush on one of their dev team members, or didn't really read his review.